Norman Hay Forbes
Norman Hay Forbes of Forbes, FRS, FRSE, FRCSE, JP (1 March 1863-27 June 1916) was a British medical doctor and academic writer, often under the name of Li’mach, the war-cry of the Forbes clan. His writing ranges from therapeutic medicine to Scottish history.
Life[edit]
He was born in Rawal Pindi in India on 1 March 1863. He was the son of Major Frederick Murray Hay Forbes of the Bengal Staff Corps, and his wife, Honoria Matilda Marshall[1] daughter of Rev William Knox Marshall and niece of Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence.
He attended Bedford Grammar School then Elizabeth College, Guernsey. Training as a doctor he studied at the Middlesex Hospital and spent some years in the Royal Army Medical Corps before becoming a general practitioner (GP) in Church Stretton. In 1904 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir William Turner, Douglas Argyll Robertson, Robert C Maclagan and Thomas Annandale.[2]
He was official Examiner to the St John’s Ambulance Association, and was appointed a Knight of Justice of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem in England on 13 August 1902.[3] He was also a director of the London branch of the Highland Society.
In later life he lived in Tunbridge Wells. He died on 27 June 1916.
Family[edit]
In 1897, he married Ellen Wilshin, daughter of Jason Wilshin. They had one daughter: Eilidh MacLeod Hay Forbes (1897-1970).
Publications[edit]
- Highland Bagpipes (1895)
- Medical Climatology and the Principles of Climatic Treatment
- Dances of the Highlanders
- Tuberculosis in Cattle in Relation to our Meat and Milk (1899)
- Natural Therapy: A Manual of Physiotherapeutics and Climatology (1913)
References[edit]
- ^ "Norman Hay Forbes". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
- ^ "No. 27465". The London Gazette. 15 August 1902. p. 5327.