FORBES, Admiral The Hon. John. Memoirs of the Earls of Granard. Edited by George Arthur Hastings, Earl of Granard, K.P. With large folding genealogical table.

London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1868. Octavo. pp. xi, 293 + corrigenda. Original blue cloth, gilt armorial shield of the Forbes family on upper cover, title in gilt on rebacked spine. Ex. lib. with neat stamp. A very good copy. Very scarce.

Earl of Granard is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1684 for Arthur Forbes, 1st Viscount Granard. He was a lieutenant-general in the army and served as Marshal of the Army in Ireland after the Restoration and was later Lord Justice of Ireland. He had already succeeded his father as second Baronet of Castle Forbes and been created Baron Clanehugh and Viscount Granard in 1675, also in the Peerage of Ireland. The Baronetcy, of Castle Forbes in county Longford, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 29 September 1628 for his father, Arthur Forbes. The first Earl’s grandson, the third Earl, was an admiral in the Royal Navy. He was summoned to the Irish House of Lords through a writ of acceleration as Lord Forbes in his father’s lifetime. He was succeeded by his son, the fourth Earl. He was a lieutenant-general in the Army. His grandson, the sixth Earl, was a general in the Army. In 1806 he was created Baron Granard, of Castle Donington in the County of Leicester, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. This title gave the Earls an automatic seat in the House of Lords until the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999.

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