FOREBENCH, CHARLES; b. ; adm. ; KS Jan 1609/10 (Chapter Lease Book 1605-10, f. 261); Magdalene Coll. Cambridge, matr. 1612; BA 1616; MA 1620; ordained deacon 11 Jun 1620, priest 12 Jun 1620 (both Peterborough); Rector of Great Henny, Essex 8 Aug 1634 - sequestered 1642; during sequestration seems to have served parish of Sandford-on-Thames, Oxfordshire; restored to Great Henny; m. [by 1647] Susan --- (IGI); d. 1666.
FORDYCE, ---; b.; adm. 16 Jun 1790 (Clapham); at school Whitsun 1791. [Perhaps same individual as last]
Ford, John, son of Elias Ford OBE, goods manager GWR, and Maud, d. of William Miners of Stoke, Devonport; b. 29 Mar. 1915; adm. Sept. 1928 (B); left Apr. 1932; Lincoln Theol. Coll. 1938-40; ord. deacon 1940, priest 1941 (Bristol); Curate Stoke Bishop, Gloucs, 1940-4, Cirencester 1942-3, Tewkesbury 1943-4; Rector of Wolverton, Warks, 1944-5; Vicar of Seathwaite, Lancs, 1945-50; of Wigton, Cumberland, 1950-6; Rector of Wootton Courtenay with Luccombe, Somerset, 1957-61; Vicar of Brampton, Cumbria, 1961-7; Rector of Aikton, Cumbria, 1967-72; Curate-in-charge St John the Evangelist, Waterloo Rd, Lond., 1972-6; retd 1976; m. 9 Nov. 1936 Jean, d. of Sydney Adams Winstanley of Urmston, Lancs.; d. 1996.
FORD, JAMES, brother of Thomas Ford (qv); b.; adm.; KS (aged 12) 1764; Edinburgh Univ.; MD 1777; LRCP 30 Sep 1779; Physician to St. George’s Hospital, London, 23 Jun 1786-93; m. Harriet Pleasance, dau. of Solomon Fell, a Sworn Clerk in the Six Clerks’ Office; d. 18 Apr 1799.
Ford, Henry Francis Paul, son of A. F. Ford, of Fulham; b. Jan. 14, 1883; adm. Jan. 21, 1897 (H); left April 1899; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 1st Batt. East Kent Regt. Aug. 29, 1915; Lieut. July 1, 1917; mentioned in despatches L. G. Jan. 4, 1917.
FORD, GILBERT, brother of Thomas Ford (qv); b.; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1763; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1767, matr. 17 Jun 1767, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1767 - void 27 Jun 1780; BA 1771; MA 1774; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 20 Sep 1766; living at Newport, Pembrokeshire, in 1795; m. Temperance ---.
Ford, Geoffrey Noel, son of Everard Allen Ford, of Hampstead, by Rachel, daughter of Sir Alexander Hammick, Bart.; b. Dec. 25, 1883; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 30, 1897; left July 1901; R. M.C. Sandhurst; 2nd Lieut. unattached Aug. 27, 1902; Indian Army Jan. 10, 1904; Lieut. Nov. 27, 1904; Double Company Commander 105th Mahratta Light Infantry Jan. 13, 1904, Adjutant March 5, 1908; Capt. Aug. 27, 1911; Major Aug. 27, 1917; Brevet Lieut.-Col. Jan. 1, 1928; Col. Jan. 1, 1932; Colonel (Brigadier) of the Allahabad Brigade 1935-9; Commander, Isle of Man, 1940-3; m. Nov. 14, 1915, Katia, only daughter of Ilya Alexandra Gorkhover, of Moscow; d. 1964.
FORBES, WILLIAM WILLIAMSON, son of William Forbes, Tolquhon, Aberdeenshire, and Anne, dau. of John Leith, Whitehaugh, Aberdeenshire; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1725; KS 1726; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1730, matr. 22 Jun 1730, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1730 - void 19 Oct 1749, expiry year of grace as V. Thornbury; BA 1734; MA 1737; ordained deacon 22 Sep 1734, priest 5 Jun 1737 (both Oxford); Curate, Binsey, Oxfordshire 1736, St. Thomas, Oxford 1738; Vicar of Thornbury, Gloucs., from 1748; d. Sep 1761.
FORBES, PETER; b.; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1750 (Hawkins'); in school list 1754. [Perhaps Peter Forbes, bapt. St. Andrew’s, Holborn 3 Aug 1741, son of Peter Forbes, and Jane --- (IGI)]
Forbes, Peter Fraser Lestock, son of Sidney Lestock Forbes of Putney; b. 20 Mar. 1918; adm. May 1932 (G); left Dec. 1934; 2nd Lieut. Rajputana Rifles IA 1942; d. of wounds in Burma Feb. 1943.
Peter Fraser Lestock Forbes was born at Bournemouth, Hampshire on the 20th of March 1918 the younger son of Sidney Lestock Forbes, an engineer, and Edith Lizzie (nee Goodwin) Forbes of Putney, later of “Beggars Roost”, Seven Hills Road, Cobham in Surrey. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Grant’s from May 1932 to December 1934. He won the Pancake Greaze in 1933.
He enlisted in the army where he rose to the rank of Lance Corporal before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Indian Army on the 28th of May 1942.
His funeral took place on the 27th of February 1943.
He is buried at Kirkee War Cemetery Plot 8, Row K, Grave 15.