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FOOTE, EDWARD JAMES, brother of Robert Foote (qv); b.; in school lists 1795, 1797; Cadet, EICS Madras 1803; Lieut., 7th Native Infantry 21 Sep 1804; Brevet Capt., 1 Jan 1818; Lieut., 25th Native Infantry 1 Sep 1818; Capt., 25 Aug 1819; Brigade Maj., Secunderabad 1816; Brigade Quarter-Master, Southern Division, from 1817; m. in India 24 Oct 1818 Anne, dau. of Peter Begbie, Stamp Office, London; d. at Bangalore, India 24 Dec 1823.
FOOTE, JOHN, brother of Robert Foote (qv); b. 1784; in school lists 1795, 1797; entered Royal Navy Nov 1797 as First Class Volunteer on HMS Seahorse, under captaincy of his uncle Capt. E. J. Foote; took part in capture of French frigate La Sensible in Mediterranean 27 Jun 1798; Lieut., 10 May 1804; while commanding a gunboat, wounded and taken prisoner off Gibraltar by a Spanish privateer 25 Oct 1806; Commander, 29 Sep 1813; Capt., 29 Sep 1827; succeded to Ward, Beer Ferris, Devon, under will of cousin; m. Fanny Pengelly, Devon; d. 28 Oct 1853, aged 69.
FOOTE, JOHN, son of Richard Foote, Westminster; b.; at school in 1577; Min. Can. (aged 15) 1580; QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1584, matr. 2 Jul 1585, aged 20, Westminster Student to 1604; BA 1588; MA 1591; BD 1600; ordained; Rector of Broughton, Yorks.; Vicar of Kildwick, Yorks., from 5 May 1603; buried Kildwick 9 Feb 1622/3.
FOOTE, ROBERT, eldest son of John Foote, Charlton Place, Kent, and Mary, dau. of Edward Cockett, Herts.; b. 15 May 1783; in school list 1795; Min. Can. 1798; of Charlton Place, Kent; High Sheriff, Kent 1815; a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber from 1806; m. 24 Dec 1802 Charlotte Augusta, dau. of Hon. Frederick Keppel (qv); d. 8 Aug 1845.
Forbes, Alexander Stewart, son of Patrick Lewis Forbes, of Hampstead, by Sara Mildred Leckie, of Blackheath, Kent; b. March 29, 1894; adm. Jan. 14, 1909 (H); left July 1913; entered a firm of Anglo-Russian cotton manufacturers, and was in Russia at the outbreak of Great War I; returned heme in Oct. 1914; 2nd Lieut. wth (Reserve) Batt. the Seaforth Highlanders Nov. 9, 1914; Lieut. Oct. 7, 1915; attached to the 181st Machine Gun Co., and went out to the western front in June 1916; d. Aug. 17, 1916, of wounds received in action near Albert on the previous day.
FORBES, BENJAMIN; b.; adm. 29 Jul 1783. [Perhaps Benjamin Forbes, bapt. St. Margaret Moses, London 31 Jun 1770, son of William Forbes and Margaret (Mackenzie ?) (IGI)]
FORBES, DAVID; b.; adm. (aged 13) Jun 1739 (Hawkins'); left 1739.