Delinker: Bot: Delinking broken file(s) using script (info)

2023-07-31T11:31:19Z

Bot: Delinking broken file(s) using script (info)

← Older revision		Revision as of 17:01, 31 July 2023
Line 1:		Line 1:
	{{Use dmy dates\|date=July 2017}}		{{Use dmy dates\|date=July 2017}}
	{{Use British English\|date=July 2017}}		{{Use British English\|date=July 2017}}
	~~[[File:Sir Frank Forbes Adam, 1st Bt.jpg\|thumb\|right\|Adam in July 1926.]]~~
	'''Sir Frank Forbes Adam, 1st Baronet''' {{post-nominals\|country=GBR\|sep=,\|CB\|CIE\|DL}} (17 June 1846 – 22 December 1926) was a British banker who made his fortune in [[British India]]. He was President of the [[Bank of Bombay]].<ref name="Who's Who">'ADAM, Sir Frank Forbes’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U192597, accessed 28 Dec 2012]</ref>		'''Sir Frank Forbes Adam, 1st Baronet''' {{post-nominals\|country=GBR\|sep=,\|CB\|CIE\|DL}} (17 June 1846 – 22 December 1926) was a British banker who made his fortune in [[British India]]. He was President of the [[Bank of Bombay]].<ref name="Who's Who">'ADAM, Sir Frank Forbes’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U192597, accessed 28 Dec 2012]</ref>

>SmartyPants22: Image

2021-07-05T17:34:14Z

Image

New page

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2017}}
[[File:Sir Frank Forbes Adam, 1st Bt.jpg|thumb|right|Adam in July 1926.]]
'''Sir Frank Forbes Adam, 1st Baronet''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|sep=,|CB|CIE|DL}} (17 June 1846 – 22 December 1926) was a British banker who made his fortune in [[British India]]. He was President of the [[Bank of Bombay]].<ref name="Who's Who">'ADAM, Sir Frank Forbes’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U192597, accessed 28 Dec 2012]</ref>

He was educated at [[Loretto School]].

He was appointed Companion of the [[Order of the Indian Empire]] (CIE) in 1888,<ref name="CIE">{{London Gazette |issue=25772 |date=3 January 1888|page=15}}</ref> and ([[Knight Bachelor]]) in 1890.<ref name="Knighted">{{London Gazette |issue=26048 |date=6 May 1890|page=2613}}</ref> Appointed a [[deputy lieutenant]] of [[Lancashire]] on 26 April 1904,<ref>{{London Gazette | issue=27671 |page=2770 | date=29 April 1904}}</ref> Forbes was created Baronet of Hankelow Court, [[Chester]] in 1917<ref name="Baronet">{{London Gazette |issue=30017 |date=13 April 1917|page=3493}}</ref> and appointed Companion of the [[Order of the Bath]] in 1919.<ref name="CB">{{London Gazette |issue=31379 |date=30 May 1919|page=7046|supp=y}}</ref>

He married Rose Frances, daughter of Charles Gordon Kemball, a judge of the [[High Court of Bombay]]. They had three sons and a daughter:<ref name="Burke's">{{cite web|url=http://www.burkespeerage.com/FamilyHomepage.aspx?FID=4832 |title=Burke's Peerage – Preview Family Record |publisher=Burkespeerage.com |date=1920-02-12 |accessdate=2012-12-28}}</ref>

* [[Sir Ronald Forbes Adam, 2nd Baronet]] GCB, DSO, OBE (1885–1982), British army general.
* [[Eric Forbes Adam]] CMG (1888–1925), diplomat
* [[Colin Forbes Adam|Colin Gurden Forbes Adam]] CSI (1889–1982), civil servant
* Hetty Reay Clifford Forbes Adam MBE (1896–1970).

{{Infobox COA wide
|escutcheon = Argent a mullet pierced between three cross crosslets fitchee Gules a chief of the last thereon a pale Or charged with a rose of the second barbed and seeded Proper.
|crest = A cubit arm Argent holding in the hand a cross crosslet fitchee in bend sinister and charged on the wrist with a rose both as in the arms.
|motto = Crux Mihi Grata Quies <ref>{{cite book|title=Burke's Peerage |date=1949}}</ref>}}

==References==
{{reflist|30em}}

{{s-start}}
{{s-reg|uk-bt}}
{{s-new |creation}}
{{s-ttl | title=[[Adam baronets|Baronet]]<br />'''(of Hankelow Court) | years='''1917–1926}}
{{s-aft | after=[[Ronald Forbes Adam]]}}
{{s-end}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Adam, Sir Frank Forbes}}
[[Category:Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire]]
[[Category:Companions of the Order of the Bath]]
[[Category:Knights Bachelor]]
[[Category:Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Deputy Lieutenants of Lancashire]]
[[Category:People educated at Loretto School, Musselburgh]]
[[Category:1846 births]]
[[Category:1926 deaths]]
[[Category:Members of the Bombay Legislative Council]]

{{UK-baronet-stub}}

Frank Forbes Adam - Revision history

Delinker: Bot: Delinking broken file(s) using script (info)

>SmartyPants22: Image