FOLLETT, Brent Spencer (4 son of Benjamin Follett of Topsham, Devon). b. 1810; barrister L.I. 7 June 1833, bencher 3 Nov. 1851 to death, treasurer 1872; Q.C. 11 July 1851; M.P. for Bridgwater 1852–57; contested Cirencester, April 1859; chief registrar of Land Registry Office, London 18 Aug. 1862 to death; member of council of legal education, London. d. 23 Jany. 1887.
FOLSOM, Abby H. b. England about 1792; went to the U.S. about 1837; became noted as an advocate of anti-slavery reform and for addresses at meetings of American anti-slavery society about 1842–5; author of A letter from a member of the Boston bar to an Avaricious Landlord, Boston 1851. (m. Mr. Folsom of Massachusetts). d. Rochester, New York 1867.
FONBLANQUE, Albany William (3 son of John de Grenier Fonblanque 1760–1838). b. London 1793; a journalist on Morning Chronicle, Times and Atlas; on the Examiner 1826, manager and editor 1830–47, sole proprietor to 1860; head of statistical department of Board of Trade 1847 to death; a brilliant talker, a finished scholar and a student of music and art; author of England under seven administrations 3 vols. 1837. d. London 14 Oct. 1872. Life, ed. by E. B. de Fonblanque 1874; Westminster Papers vii, 21–23 (1874); Graphic vi, 442, 445 (1872), portrait.
FONBLANQUE, John Samuel Martin De Grenier (brother of the preceding). b. Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London, March 1787; ed. at Charterhouse and Caius coll. Cam.; 2 lieut. 21 fusiliers 3 June 1810, 1 lieut. to 25 March 1817 when placed on h.p.; served in the American war, made prisoner at New Orleans; barrister L.I. 27 Nov. 1816; one of the 70 comrs. of bankruptcy 1817, comr. of Court of Bankruptcy 1830 to death; a founder of The Jurist, a quarterly journal of jurisprudence and legislation 1827; author with J. A. Paris of Medical Jurisprudence 3 vols. 1823. d. Brighton 3 Nov. 1865.
FOOTE, Henry Richard. Entered navy 6 May 1830; captain 20 Oct. 1853; harbour manager and secretary Newport dock company 1854; retired captain 31 March 1866; retired admiral 9 Jany. 1880. d. Ellesmere house, Newport, Monmouthshire 23 Nov. 1885 aged 68.
FORAN, Most Rev. Nicholas. b. Waterford; ed. at Maynooth; pres. of St. John’s college, Waterford short time; parish priest of Lismore; parish priest of Dungarvan to 1837; R.C. Bishop of Waterford and Lismore 23 May 1837 to death; consecrated 24 Aug. 1837. d. Dungarvan 18 May 1855 in 74 year.
FORBES, Walter Forbes, 18 Baron. b. Crailing house, Roxburghshire 29 May 1798; ensign Coldstream guards 1814; commanded a company at defence of Hougoumont 18 June 1815; retired 1825; succeeded 4 May 1843; a great benefactor to St. Ninian’s cathedral, Perth. d. Richmond, Surrey 1 May 1868, monument in Guards’ chapel, Wellington barracks, London.
FORBES, Right Rev. Alexander Penrose (2 son of John Hay Forbes, lord Medwyn 1776–1854). b. Edinburgh 6 June 1817; educ. Glasgow univ. 1833 and Haileybury coll.; assistant collector Rajahmundry, India 1837; head assistant to the Sudder and Foujdarry Adawlut 1839–40; matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 1840, Boden Sanskrit scholar 1841; B.A. 1844, M.A. 1846, D.C.L. 18 May 1848; C. of Aston Rowant, Oxf. 1844; C. of St. Thomas’, Oxf. 1845; incumb. of Stonehaven, Kincardine 1846; V. of St. Saviour’s, Leeds 1847, one of the first Tractarian churches; elected bishop of Brechin 21 Sep. 1847 when the seat of the bishoprick was removed from Brechin to Dundee, and he also became V. of St. Paul’s, Dundee; censured by the college of bishops for his teaching on the real presence 15 March 1860; built St. Paul’s cathedral, Dundee 1855 and founded sisterhood of St. Mary and St. Modwenna; author of An explanation of the Thirty nine articles 2 vols. 1867–68 in which he was assisted by Dr. Pusey; The prisoners of Craigmacaire 1852; The pious life of Helen Inglis 1854; Kalendars of Scottish saints 1872 and 20 other works. d. Castle hill, Dundee 8 Oct. 1875. Mackey’s Bishop Forbes (1888), portrait; Memoir of Alexander, bishop of Brechin, By Miss Skene (1876).
FORBES, Sir Charles Fergusson. b. 1779; hospital assistant in army medical service, May 1798; served in Egypt, Gallicia and the Peninsula; retired with rank of deputy inspector general of hospitals 1864; M.D. Edinburgh 24 June 1808; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1814, F.R.C.P. 10 July 1841; practised in London 1814 to death; physician Royal Westminster infirmary for diseases of the eye 1816, fell out with his colleague G. J. Guthrie 1827 when he resigned; fought a duel with Hale Thomson one of Guthrie’s party, on Clapham common 29 Dec. 1827; F.L.S. 1822; K.C.H. 1837; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 March 1844. d. 23 Argyll st. London 22 March 1852. Munk’s Roll of College of Physicians (1878) iii, 129; Medical Circular i, 137 (1852).
FORBES, David. Entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. col. 9 Bombay N.I. 23 Nov. 1841 to 25 May 1852; commandant at Aden 9 Jany. 1851 to 25 May 1852; col. 3 European regiment 1854 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. Upper Brunswick place, Brighton 2 April 1863.