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Person’s Profile

Elisabeth Jane Forbes

Description

member of the Gosling Society

Biography

Fifth and youngest daughter of William Forbes (1803-1891) of Medwyn and Mary Hume Archer Houblon (d.1896), niece of Alexander Penrose Forbes, Bishop of Brechin.  Her father was first cousin to Anne Mackenzie.  A Gosling as Thistle [2], and first cousin to Polypodium.  [Houblon Family;  LG 1952;  Faculty of Advocates]