The Times/1914/Obituary/Horace Courtenay Gammell Forbes

DISCOVERY IN A DUNDEE HOTEL.

Earlier this morning Lord Forbes, the premier Baron of Scotland, was found lying dead in a Dundee hotel with his throat cut, Lord Forbes had been staying the hotel for about a month.

Horace Courtenay Gammell-Forbes, 19th baron, was born in Aberdeen in 1829, and was therefore in his 85th year. He was the second son of the 18th baron, whom he succeeded in 1868. His father served in the Coldstream Guards at Waterloo.

Lord Forbes, who was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, was a representative peer for Scotland from 1874 to 1906. His brother, the Hon. Atholl Monson Forbes, who was born in 1841, succeeds to the title. He married in 1876 Margaret Alice, youngest daughter of Sir William Dick Cunyngham eighth baronet, and his eldest and only surviving son is Atholl Lex G. Forbes, who was born in 1882.