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# Person ID Last Name First Name Birth Date Death Date Living note Tree
551 I000400  FORBES-ROBERTSON  Leonard John   1863  1927  FreeFormatDate:Census  mr1 
552 I000400  FORBES-ROBERTSON  Leonard John   1863  1927  Mar Q 1927 2a 673 Croydon  mr1 
553 I000400  FORBES-ROBERTSON  Leonard John   1863  1927  Dec Q 1863 1b 240 Islington  mr1 
554 I2408  FORBES-ROBERTSON  Lysbeth A  1953    First name(s) LYSBETH A
Last name FORBES-ROBERTSON
Birth year 1953
Birth quarter 3
Mother's last name ANDERSON
District HAMPSTEAD
County London
Volume 5C
Page 1162 
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555 I000399  FORBES-ROBERTSON  Margaret Sara Dora  1861  1940  Sep Q 1861 1b 196 Islington  mr1 
556 I000399  FORBES-ROBERTSON  Margaret Sara Dora  1861  1940  Sep Q 1940 4a 1237 Chelmsford  mr1 
557 I000399  FORBES-ROBERTSON  Margaret Sara Dora  1861  1940  Administration
Margaret Forbes Robertson of 3, Grosvenor Mansions, Grosvenor Road, Westcliff on Sea Essex, died 21 July 1940 at Runwell Emergency Hospital, Wickford, Essex.

Administration, London, to Frances Marie Desiree Harrod, Widow.
Effects £22  
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558 I000386  FORBES-ROBERTSON  Muriel Elsa Florence  13 Sep 1913  7 Apr 2000  Meriel Forbes

Actress of wit and charm, with and without Ralph Richardson

Eric Shorter
Monday April 17, 2000
The Guardian

Although Meriel Forbes, who has died aged 86, later became better known as Sir Ralph Richardson's beloved wife, "Mu" - famous for tolerating his assorted whims, from motorcycles to uncaged pet parrots - she had earned a reputation on the West End stage as one of its busiest and most accomplished actresses long before they met.
She was also one of the stage's most attractive exponents of light comedy. After ending her engagement to the actor Robert Morley, who considered her insufficiently ambitious, she took up with the matinée idol Robert Donat, and played his wife on tour and in the West End - during the same season that she first encountered Richardson.

Meriel was born into one of the best-known British acting families. The daughter of Frank Forbes-Robertson and niece of the great Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, she was educated in Eastbourne, Brussels and Paris. No one was surprised when, at 16, she made her professional debut with her father's touring company in York, as Mrs De Hooley in Jerome K Jerome's The Passing Of The Third Floor Back.

Then came two stints in rep, one in Dundee, the other in Birmingham, before touring in Ronald Mackenzie's Musical Chairs, and understudying (and playing) the fluffy and flirtatious Kitty Packard in Kaufman and Ferber's Dinner At Eight (1933). For the next seven years, Forbes was never out of work, which ranged from comedies and thrillers to musicals and Terence Rattigan's first play, First Episode, in 1934.

It was two years later, while auditioning with another actress at the Haymarket theatre for The Amazing Dr Clitterhouse, that Ralph Richardson chose her for the part of a gangster's moll. He was to star as a psychologist-turned- criminologist, and pointing to the vivacious Forbes, he said: "I like that one." As Clitterhouse's "dark and spirited, and smartly dressed assistant, Daisy" Forbes caught critical attention in a production which ran for nearly 500 performances.

The Richardsons did not act again together for another 12 years. He was already married to Muriel "Kit" Hewitt, an actress but an invalid. She had developed the disease encephalitis lethargica (sleeping sickness).

Although Forbes might not possess high ambition or wide range, as Morley had once brusquely pointed out, she was always in work, and her vivacity held an irresistible charm for an actor of Richardson's artistic standing and domestic predicament. Besides, she had won admiration over the years for her lightness of touch, exquisite timing, spirited personality and her way of humanising otherwise over-sweet characters, like Sheridan's Julia in The Rivals at the Old Vic in 1938.

Forbes had also shown an engaging, caustic line in dry comedy as Crystal Allen in The Women (1940), and had stolen notices in the small part of the housemaid Milly Smith in Reginald Beckwith's A Soldier For Christmas (1944). As the barmaid opposite Richardson in RC Sherriff's Home At Seven (1950), her part may only have lasted 10 minutes, but within that time she was said to have "unlocked with charm and vivacity the key to the plot". In another play by Sherriff, The White Carnation, Forbes drew from Kenneth Tynan the epithet "winsome", as a London librarian with whom Richardson fell in love.

Indeed, the Richardsons, who married in 1944 (two years after the death of Muriel Hewitt), were to play many parts together, from Romilly Cavan's ruritanian comedy, Royal Circle (1948) to a tour of Australia in two Rattigan plays, Separate Tables and The Sleeping Prince, and Robert Bolt's Flowering Cherry, in which Forbes took over from Wendy Hiller as the long-suffering wife of Richardson's dreamy suburban husband.

They were together again in the West End in The School For Scandal in 1962, with her as Lady Sneerwell to his blustering Sir Peter Teazle, roles which they also acted on Broadway. In 1964, they played Bottom and Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream on a tour of South America and Europe.

One of their last plays together came in the 1970s, Lloyd George Knew My Father, with Forbes replacing Peggy Ashcroft. Among her own personal successes were The Philadelphia Story (1949), Shaw's The Millionairess (1952), and The Waltz Of The Toreadors (New York, 1957). Forbes's film appearances included Oh! What A Lovely War, and, on television, she was Lady Constance in the series Blandings Castle.

Sir Ralph Richardson died in 1983. Their only son, Charles, also predeceased Forbes.

• Meriel Forbes, actress, born September 13 1913; died April 7 2000 
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559 I000386  FORBES-ROBERTSON  Muriel Elsa Florence  13 Sep 1913  7 Apr 2000  Headstone

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42146027 
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560 I000386  FORBES-ROBERTSON  Muriel Elsa Florence  13 Sep 1913  7 Apr 2000  See Wikipedia:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriel_Forbes 
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561 I2389  FORBES-ROBERTSON  Norman Henry  1903  1966  First name(s) NORMAN HENRY
Last name FORBES-ROBERTSON
Birth year 1903
Birth quarter 1
District ST. GILES
County London
Volume 1B
Page 603
 
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562 I2390  FORBES-ROBERTSON  Olivia  1906    First name(s) OLIVIA
Last name FORBES-ROBERTSON
Birth year 1906
Birth quarter 1
District ST. GILES
County London
Volume 1B
Page 581
 
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563 I2404  FORBES-ROBERTSON  Peggy Jessie  1930  1986  First name(s) PEGGIE J
Last name FORBES-ROBERTSON
Birth year 1930
Birth quarter 1
Mother's last name THORNTON
District BARNET
County Middlesex
Country England
Volume 3A
Page 742 
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564 I2404  FORBES-ROBERTSON  Peggy Jessie  1930  1986  From the IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3054726/ 
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565 I2404  FORBES-ROBERTSON  Peggy Jessie  1930  1986  First name(s) PEGGY JESSIE
Last name DRAKE
Birth day 23
Birth month 12
Birth year 1930
Death quarter 2
Death year 1986
District KENSINGTON & CHELSEA
Register number 586
County London
Volume 13
Page 1732 
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566 I2399  FORBES-ROBERTSON  Peter John B  16 Jan 1927  1995  First name(s) PETER J B F
Last name ROBERTSON
Birth year 1927
Birth quarter 1
Mother's last name THORNTON
District HAWARDEN
County Flintshire
Country Wales
Volume 11B
Page 313
 
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567 I2399  FORBES-ROBERTSON  Peter John B  16 Jan 1927  1995  Aveleyman.com
http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=5872 
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568 I2399  FORBES-ROBERTSON  Peter John B  16 Jan 1927  1995  First name(s) PETER JOHN B
Last name FORBES-ROBERTSON
Death quarter 4
Death year 1995
District WANDSWORTH
District number 2561C
Register number C98A
Entry number 071
Date of registration mm/yy 1295
County London
 
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569 I2422  FORBES-ROBERTSON  Philippe  1898  1968  Illustrator and decorative artist  mr1 
570 I2410  FORBES-ROBERTSON  Richard Michael  1951    First name(s) RICHARD M
Last name FORBES-ROBERTSON
Birth year 1951
Birth quarter 4
Mother's last name ANDERSON
District HAMMERSMITH
County London
Volume 5C
Page 857 
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571 I1992  FORD  Charles Snook  1909    Dec Q 1909 2b 521 Alverstoke  mr1 
572 I1991  FORD  Ethel Marie Eugenie  1907    Dec Q 1907 2b 511 Alverstoke  mr1 
573 I000665  FORD  George Henry   1871  Yes, date unknown  Description: about March 22  mr1 
574 I000343  FORD  Olive Louisa   1873  Yes, date unknown  Description: Dressmaker (living with Rebecca Sait, her Grandmother)  mr1 
575 I000343  FORD  Olive Louisa   1873  Yes, date unknown  Dec Q 1873 Alverstoke 2b 485  mr1 
576 I1990  FORD  Thomas Eugene  1902    Sep Q 1902 2b 562 Alverstoke  mr1 
577 I000344  FORD  William   Abt 1842  1925  Mar Q 1925 2b 815 Alverstoke  mr1 
578 I1989  FORD  William Charles George  1901    Sep Q 1901 2b 558 Alverstoke  mr1 
579 I1829  FORSTER  Jean M  1929    Mar Q 1929 8c 829 Barton I

Possible child - not proven 
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580 I000548  FOSTER  Arthur   1871  Yes, date unknown  Description: Groom, Domestic Servant  mr1 
581 I000548  FOSTER  Arthur   1871  Yes, date unknown  Living with his sister Elizabeth (Orton)  mr1 
582 I000520  FOSTER  Arthur   1891  Yes, date unknown  Jun Q 1891 7b 478 Shardlow  mr1 
583 I000547  FOSTER  Charles   1868  Yes, date unknown  FreeFormatDate:Census  mr1 
584 I000547  FOSTER  Charles   1868  Yes, date unknown  Description: Railway Engine Stoker  mr1 
585 I000547  FOSTER  Charles   1868  Yes, date unknown  Living with his sister Mary Jane  mr1 
586 I000546  FOSTER  Charlotte   Abt 1857  Yes, date unknown  Description: visitor (to her sister Elizabeth)  mr1 
587 I1682  FOSTER  Eda Isabella  08 Jul 1914  7 Dec 2005  Sep Q 1914 6b 852 Burton  mr1 
588 I1682  FOSTER  Eda Isabella  08 Jul 1914  7 Dec 2005  NAME: Eda Isobella Davis
BIRTH DATE: 8 Jul 1914
DATE OF REGISTRATION: Dec 2005
AGE AT DEATH: 91
REGISTRATION DISTRICT: Kettering
INFERRED COUNTY: Northamptonshire
REGISTER NUMBER: A75D
DISTRICT AND SUBDISTRICT: 669/1A
ENTRY NUMBER: 11 
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589 I1682  FOSTER  Eda Isabella  08 Jul 1914  7 Dec 2005  DAVIS, EDA ISABELLA - 07 April 2006 - 2118278 - 07 December 2005 - Grant and will - Newcastle Upon Tyne  mr1 
590 I000549  FOSTER  George W   1874  Yes, date unknown  FreeFormatDate:Census  mr1 
591 I000549  FOSTER  George W   1874  Yes, date unknown  Description: Baker's Assistant  mr1 
592 I000549  FOSTER  George W   1874  Yes, date unknown  Living with his sister Mary Jane  mr1 
593 I000136  FOSTER  Jennifer       Jennifer is issue from her mother's first marriage  mr1 
594 I000521  FOSTER  Leonard   1889  29 Apr 1917  Lost in Action in France WW1
Photograph taken by Walker, Victoria Studio, 48, Wellington St. Woolwich 
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595 I000521  FOSTER  Leonard   1889  29 Apr 1917  Jun Q 7b 481 Shardlow  mr1 
596 I000521  FOSTER  Leonard   1889  29 Apr 1917  Killed in Action  mr1 
597 I000521  FOSTER  Leonard   1889  29 Apr 1917  Remembered at the Arras Memorial  mr1 
598 I000521  FOSTER  Leonard   1889  29 Apr 1917  44342, 103rd Coy., Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)  mr1 
599 I000135  FOSTER  Lynne       Foster is her name by first marriage.  mr1 
600 I000494  FOSTER  Maggie Elizabeth   9 Jan 1888  1972  FreeFormatDate:Census  mr1 


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