Norman Hay Forbes
Dr Norman Hay Forbes of Forbes FRS FRSE FRCSE JP (1863-1916) was a British doctor and academic author, often under the name of Li’mach, the war-cry of the Forbes clan. He was a minor member of the Scottish peerage. His writing ranges from therapeutic medicine to Scottish history.
Life
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 the picturesque town of 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 director of the London branch of the Highland Society. In later life he lived in Tunbridge Wells.[3]
He died 27 June 1916.
Family
In 1897 he married Ellen Wilshin daughter of Jason Wilshin. They had one daughter: Eilidh MacLeod Hay Forbes (1897-1970).
Publications
- 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
- ↑ http://www.thepeerage.com/p41298.htm
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ http://digital.nls.uk/early-gaelic-book-collections/pageturner.cfm?id=75850032&mode=transcription