Frank Forbes Adam

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 educated at Loretto School.

He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in 1888,[2] and (Knight Bachelor) in 1890.[3] Appointed a deputy lieutenant of Lancashire on 26 April 1904,[4] Forbes was created Baronet of Hankelow Court, Chester in 1917[5] and appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1919.[6]

He married Rose Frances, daughter of Charles Gordon Kemball, a judge of the High Court of Bombay. They had three sons and a daughter:[7]

  • Sir Ronald Forbes Adam, 2nd Baronet GCB, DSO, OBE (1885–1982), British army general.
  • Eric Forbes Adam CMG (1888–1925), diplomat
  • Colin Gurden Forbes Adam CSI (1889–1982), civil servant
  • Hetty Reay Clifford Forbes Adam MBE (1896–1970).
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 [8]

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. "No. 25772". The London Gazette. 3 January 1888. p. 15.
  3. "No. 26048". The London Gazette. 6 May 1890. p. 2613.
  4. "No. 27671". The London Gazette. 29 April 1904. p. 2770.
  5. "No. 30017". The London Gazette. 13 April 1917. p. 3493.
  6. "No. 31379". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 May 1919. p. 7046.
  7. "Burke's Peerage – Preview Family Record". Burkespeerage.com. 12 February 1920. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  8. Burke's Peerage. 1949.
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Hankelow Court)
1917–1926		 Succeeded by
Ronald Forbes Adam
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