Frank Forbes Adam

Adam in July 1926.

Sir Frank Forbes Adam, 1st Baronet CB, CIE, DL (17 June 1846 – 22 December 1926) was a British banker who made his fortune in British India. He was President of the Bank of Bombay.[1] He was one of the main movers of the raising of funds to support those affected by famine in India in 1897 and 1900.[2]

He was educated at Loretto School.

He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in 1888,[3] and (Knight Bachelor) in 1890.[4] Appointed a deputy lieutenant of Lancashire on 26 April 1904,[5] Forbes was created Baronet of Hankelow Court, Chester in 1917[6] and appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1919.[7]

He married Rose Frances, daughter of Charles Gordon Kemball, a judge of the High Court of Bombay. They had three sons and a daughter:[8]

Coat of arms of Frank Forbes Adam
Crest
A cubit arm Argent holding in the hand a cross crosslet fitchee in bend sinister and charged on the wrist with a rose both as in the arms.
Escutcheon
Argent a mullet pierced between three cross crosslets fitchee Gules a chief of the last thereon a pale Or charged with a rose of the second barbed and seeded Proper.
Motto
Crux Mihi Grata Quies [9]

References

  1. ^ 'ADAM, Sir Frank Forbes’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 28 Dec 2012
  2. ^ "Town's Meeting in Manchester: Urgent Need for Help". The Manchester Guardian. 21 February 1900. p. 12.
  3. ^ "No. 25772". The London Gazette. 3 January 1888. p. 15.
  4. ^ "No. 26048". The London Gazette. 6 May 1890. p. 2613.
  5. ^ "No. 27671". The London Gazette. 29 April 1904. p. 2770.
  6. ^ "No. 30017". The London Gazette. 13 April 1917. p. 3493.
  7. ^ "No. 31379". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 May 1919. p. 7046.
  8. ^ "Burke's Peerage – Preview Family Record". Burkespeerage.com. 12 February 1920. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  9. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1949.
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
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(of Hankelow Court)
1917–1926 		Succeeded by


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