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FORBES, ALEXANDER PENROSE (1817-1875)

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 636 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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FORBES, ALEXANDER PENROSE (1817-1875) , Scottish divine, was born at Edinburgh on' the 6th of June 1817. He was the second son of John
Henry
  Forbes, Lord Medwyn, a judge of the court of session, and grandson of Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo. He studied first at the Edinburgh
Academy
 , then for two years under the Rev.
Thomas
  Dale, the poet, in Kent, passed one session at Glasgow University in 1833, and,having chosen the career of the Indian civil service, completed his studies with distinction at. Haileybury College. In 1836 he went to
Madras
  and secured early promotion, but in consequence of ill-health he was obliged to return to England. He then entered Brasenose College, Oxford, where in 1841 he,dbtained the Roden Sanskrit scholarship, and graduated in 1844. I-te was at Oxford during the early years of the
movement
  known as Puseyism, and was powerfully influenced by association with Newman, Pusey and Keble. This led him to resign his Indian appointment. In 1844 he was ordained deacoB and priest in the English Church, and held curacies at
Aston
 , Rowant and St
Thomas
 's, Oxford; but being naturally attracted to the Episcopal Church of his native land, then recovering from long depression, he removed in 1846 toStonehaven, the
chief
  town of Kincardineshire. The same year, however, he was appointed to the vicarage of St Saviour's, Leeds, a church founded to preach and illustrate Tractarian principles. In 1848 Forbes was called to succeed Bishop Moir in the see of Brechin. Be removed the episcopal residence to Dundee, where he resided till his death, combining the
pastoral
  charge of the congregation with the duties of the see. When he came to Dundee the churchmen were accustomed owing to their small numbers to
worship
  in a room over a. bank. Through his energy several churches were built, and Among them the pro-cathedral of St Paul's. He was prosecuted in the church courts for heresy, the accusation being founded on his primary charge, delivered and published in 18571 in which he set forth his views on the Eucharist. He made a powerful defence of the charge, and was acquitted with "a censure and an admonition." Keble wrote in his defence, and was present at his trial at Edinburgh. Forbes was a good scholar, a scientific theologian and a devoted worker, and was much beloved. He died at Dundee on the 8th of October 1875.
Principal works: A Short Explanation of the Nicene Creed (1852); An Explanation, of the Thirty-nine Articles (2 vols., 1867 and 1868) ; Commentary on the Seven Penitential Psalms (1847); Commentary on the Canticles (1853). See Mackey's Bishop Forbes, a Memoir.


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