# |
Person ID |
Last Name |
First Name |
Birth Date |
Death Date |
Living |
note |
Tree |
551 |
I000400 |
FORBES-ROBERTSON |
Leonard John |
1863 |
1927 |
0 |
FreeFormatDate:Census |
mr1 |
552 |
I000400 |
FORBES-ROBERTSON |
Leonard John |
1863 |
1927 |
0 |
Mar Q 1927 2a 673 Croydon |
mr1 |
553 |
I000400 |
FORBES-ROBERTSON |
Leonard John |
1863 |
1927 |
0 |
Dec Q 1863 1b 240 Islington |
mr1 |
554 |
I2408 |
FORBES-ROBERTSON |
Lysbeth A |
1953 |
|
0 |
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 |
mr1 |
555 |
I000399 |
FORBES-ROBERTSON |
Margaret Sara Dora |
1861 |
1940 |
0 |
Sep Q 1861 1b 196 Islington |
mr1 |
556 |
I000399 |
FORBES-ROBERTSON |
Margaret Sara Dora |
1861 |
1940 |
0 |
Sep Q 1940 4a 1237 Chelmsford |
mr1 |
557 |
I000399 |
FORBES-ROBERTSON |
Margaret Sara Dora |
1861 |
1940 |
0 |
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 |
mr1 |
558 |
I000386 |
FORBES-ROBERTSON |
Muriel Elsa Florence |
13 Sep 1913 |
7 Apr 2000 |
0 |
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 |
mr1 |
559 |
I000386 |
FORBES-ROBERTSON |
Muriel Elsa Florence |
13 Sep 1913 |
7 Apr 2000 |
0 |
Headstone
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42146027 |
mr1 |
560 |
I000386 |
FORBES-ROBERTSON |
Muriel Elsa Florence |
13 Sep 1913 |
7 Apr 2000 |
0 |
See Wikipedia:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriel_Forbes |
mr1 |
561 |
I2389 |
FORBES-ROBERTSON |
Norman Henry |
1903 |
1966 |
0 |
First name(s) NORMAN HENRY
Last name FORBES-ROBERTSON
Birth year 1903
Birth quarter 1
District ST. GILES
County London
Volume 1B
Page 603
|
mr1 |
562 |
I2390 |
FORBES-ROBERTSON |
Olivia |
1906 |
|
0 |
First name(s) OLIVIA
Last name FORBES-ROBERTSON
Birth year 1906
Birth quarter 1
District ST. GILES
County London
Volume 1B
Page 581
|
mr1 |
563 |
I2404 |
FORBES-ROBERTSON |
Peggy Jessie |
1930 |
1986 |
0 |
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 |
mr1 |
564 |
I2404 |
FORBES-ROBERTSON |
Peggy Jessie |
1930 |
1986 |
0 |
From the IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3054726/ |
mr1 |
565 |
I2404 |
FORBES-ROBERTSON |
Peggy Jessie |
1930 |
1986 |
0 |
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 |
mr1 |
566 |
I2399 |
FORBES-ROBERTSON |
Peter John B |
16 Jan 1927 |
1995 |
0 |
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
|
mr1 |
567 |
I2399 |
FORBES-ROBERTSON |
Peter John B |
16 Jan 1927 |
1995 |
0 |
Aveleyman.com
http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=5872 |
mr1 |
568 |
I2399 |
FORBES-ROBERTSON |
Peter John B |
16 Jan 1927 |
1995 |
0 |
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
|
mr1 |
569 |
I2422 |
FORBES-ROBERTSON |
Philippe |
1898 |
1968 |
0 |
Illustrator and decorative artist |
mr1 |
570 |
I2410 |
FORBES-ROBERTSON |
Richard Michael |
1951 |
|
0 |
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 |
mr1 |
571 |
I1992 |
FORD |
Charles Snook |
1909 |
|
0 |
Dec Q 1909 2b 521 Alverstoke |
mr1 |
572 |
I1991 |
FORD |
Ethel Marie Eugenie |
1907 |
|
0 |
Dec Q 1907 2b 511 Alverstoke |
mr1 |
573 |
I000665 |
FORD |
George Henry |
1871 |
Yes, date unknown |
0 |
Description: about March 22 |
mr1 |
574 |
I000343 |
FORD |
Olive Louisa |
1873 |
Yes, date unknown |
0 |
Description: Dressmaker (living with Rebecca Sait, her Grandmother) |
mr1 |
575 |
I000343 |
FORD |
Olive Louisa |
1873 |
Yes, date unknown |
0 |
Dec Q 1873 Alverstoke 2b 485 |
mr1 |
576 |
I1990 |
FORD |
Thomas Eugene |
1902 |
|
0 |
Sep Q 1902 2b 562 Alverstoke |
mr1 |
577 |
I000344 |
FORD |
William |
Abt 1842 |
1925 |
0 |
Mar Q 1925 2b 815 Alverstoke |
mr1 |
578 |
I1989 |
FORD |
William Charles George |
1901 |
|
0 |
Sep Q 1901 2b 558 Alverstoke |
mr1 |
579 |
I1829 |
FORSTER |
Jean M |
1929 |
|
0 |
Mar Q 1929 8c 829 Barton I
Possible child - not proven |
mr1 |
580 |
I000548 |
FOSTER |
Arthur |
1871 |
Yes, date unknown |
0 |
Description: Groom, Domestic Servant |
mr1 |
581 |
I000548 |
FOSTER |
Arthur |
1871 |
Yes, date unknown |
0 |
Living with his sister Elizabeth (Orton) |
mr1 |
582 |
I000520 |
FOSTER |
Arthur |
1891 |
Yes, date unknown |
0 |
Jun Q 1891 7b 478 Shardlow |
mr1 |
583 |
I000547 |
FOSTER |
Charles |
1868 |
Yes, date unknown |
0 |
FreeFormatDate:Census |
mr1 |
584 |
I000547 |
FOSTER |
Charles |
1868 |
Yes, date unknown |
0 |
Description: Railway Engine Stoker |
mr1 |
585 |
I000547 |
FOSTER |
Charles |
1868 |
Yes, date unknown |
0 |
Living with his sister Mary Jane |
mr1 |
586 |
I000546 |
FOSTER |
Charlotte |
Abt 1857 |
Yes, date unknown |
0 |
Description: visitor (to her sister Elizabeth) |
mr1 |
587 |
I1682 |
FOSTER |
Eda Isabella |
08 Jul 1914 |
7 Dec 2005 |
0 |
Sep Q 1914 6b 852 Burton |
mr1 |
588 |
I1682 |
FOSTER |
Eda Isabella |
08 Jul 1914 |
7 Dec 2005 |
0 |
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 |
mr1 |
589 |
I1682 |
FOSTER |
Eda Isabella |
08 Jul 1914 |
7 Dec 2005 |
0 |
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 |
0 |
FreeFormatDate:Census |
mr1 |
591 |
I000549 |
FOSTER |
George W |
1874 |
Yes, date unknown |
0 |
Description: Baker's Assistant |
mr1 |
592 |
I000549 |
FOSTER |
George W |
1874 |
Yes, date unknown |
0 |
Living with his sister Mary Jane |
mr1 |
593 |
I000136 |
FOSTER |
Jennifer |
|
|
0 |
Jennifer is issue from her mother's first marriage |
mr1 |
594 |
I000521 |
FOSTER |
Leonard |
1889 |
29 Apr 1917 |
0 |
Lost in Action in France WW1
Photograph taken by Walker, Victoria Studio, 48, Wellington St. Woolwich |
mr1 |
595 |
I000521 |
FOSTER |
Leonard |
1889 |
29 Apr 1917 |
0 |
Jun Q 7b 481 Shardlow |
mr1 |
596 |
I000521 |
FOSTER |
Leonard |
1889 |
29 Apr 1917 |
0 |
Killed in Action |
mr1 |
597 |
I000521 |
FOSTER |
Leonard |
1889 |
29 Apr 1917 |
0 |
Remembered at the Arras Memorial |
mr1 |
598 |
I000521 |
FOSTER |
Leonard |
1889 |
29 Apr 1917 |
0 |
44342, 103rd Coy., Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) |
mr1 |
599 |
I000135 |
FOSTER |
Lynne |
|
|
0 |
Foster is her name by first marriage. |
mr1 |
600 |
I000494 |
FOSTER |
Maggie Elizabeth |
9 Jan 1888 |
1972 |
0 |
FreeFormatDate:Census |
mr1 |