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 218 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. GRANARD, EARL OF. (FORBES.) Sits as BARON. GEORGE ARTHUR HASTINGS FORBES, K.P. 7th Earl, and a Baronet, son of Major-Gen. George John, Viscount Forbes, who was eldest son of the 6th Earl. Born August 5th, 1833; succeeded his grandfather in 1837; educated at Eton ; was Attache* at Dresden, 1851 4 ; is a Magistrate for Longford, Wexford, and Leitrim, and a Knight of the Order of ^__ Malta, and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Gregory the Great; appointed ThemcitemenUo^l^thefirebrand Lieut .. Col. of the West Meath Militia Rifles, 1856; was sometime Lord Lieut. and Gustos Rotulorum 'of co. Leitrim, resigned 1872: married 1st (1858) Jane Colclough who died 1872 youngest daughter of Hamilton Knox Grogan Morgan, Esq. of Johnstown-castle, Wexford, and has issue, living, Daughters, Adelaide Jane Frances, b. I860. Sophia Maria Elizabeth, b. 1862 His lordship married 2ndly (1873) the Hon. Frances Mary Petre, daughter of the 12th Baron Petre, and has issue, living, Sow, Bernard Arthur William Patrick Hastings, Viscount Forbes, b. 1874. Brother living, William Francis, *. 1836, m. 1863. Creations, Viscount Granard and Baron of Clanhugh, 1673, Earl of Granard, 1684, all in the peerage of Ireland. Baron Granard of Castle Donington, Leicester, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, 1806. A Baronet, 1628. Slrms, Azure : three bears' heads, couped at the neck, argent, muzzled, gules. Crest, A bear statant, argent, guttee de sang, and muzzled, gules. Supporters, Dexter, an unicorn, erminois ; sinister, a dragon, wings elevated, ermine. Seats, Castle-Forbes, co. Longford ; and Johnstown Castle, co. Wexford, Ireland. Clubs, Boodle's, Junior United Service, Kildare.street, (Dublin.) GEANAED, Earl of, His lordship's predecessor was his grandfather, George, 6th Earl of Granard. He was b. June 14, 1760, and succeeded his father, April 16, 1780 ; was a general officer in the Army, and Clerk to the Crown and Hanaper in Ireland : m.May 10, 1779, Lady Selina Frances Rawdon-Hastings, daughter of the 1 st Earl of Moira, (she d. 1827) : and d, June 9, 1837, having had issue five sons and four daughters. Granby, Marquess of, title borne by the Duke of Eutland. Grandison, Viscount, Earl of Jersey. Grant (Ogilvie-Grant), family name of the Earl of Seafield. rantham Baron, ^title borne by the Marquess of Eipon.