Henry Ogg Forbes

Henry Ogg Forbes

Henry Ogg Forbes LLD
Born	1851
Died	1932
Residence	Rubislaw Den House, Aberdeen [1883] Canterbury Museum, Christ Church, New Zealand [1888] 194 Philbeach Gardens, SW [1894] Director of Museums, The Museum, William Browne Street, Liverpool [1897] 46 Leinster Square, Bayswater, W. [1911] Redcliffe, Beaconsfield, Bucks [1913]
Occupation	museum work
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1916 resigned elected_AI 1883 clubs Royal Societies Club societies Royal Geographical Society Zoological Society British Ornithologists' Union Liverpool Biological Society British Association

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Office Notes

AI Council 1899 Member
AI Council 1900 Member
AI Council 1901 Member
RAI Council 1914 Member
RAI Council 1915 Member
RAI Council 1916 Member

House Notes

1883.10.30 proposed
1909.02.09. Members three years in arrears. It was resolved that Messrs Pope Hennessy, H.O. Forbes, G.F. Lawrence, Swinhoe and Seymour Sewell should be warned.
1916.06.20 Resignations of Dr Forbes and Mr Partington. Arising therefrom the President reported that he had written as desired at the last Council meeting, to Dr Forbes and Mr Partington sending them a copy of the resolution passed at that meeting, and asking them to reconsider their decision to resign. Both gentleman had replied that they were unable to alter their decision. [they resigned over the question of not removing enemy Fellows]
1917.04.25 A letter was read [from] Dr Forbes and the Treasurer’s reply thereto. It was resolved to take no action with regard to the letter

see House Notes/obituaries etc. for information on him

Reader in Ethnography in the University of Liverpool [1913]

Notes From Elsewhere

Henry Ogg Forbes (30 January 1851 – 27 October 1932) was a Scottish explorer, ornithologist, and botanist.
Forbes was the son of Rev. Alexander Forbes, M.A., and Mary née Ogg, his wife.[1] and was born at Drumblade, Huntly, Aberdeenshire.[1] He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, the University of Aberdeen and the University of Edinburgh,[2]
Forbes was active primarily in the Moluccas, Sumatra and New Guinea. He served as director of the Canterbury Museum in New Zealand between 1890 and 1893, and eventually moved to Liverpool, England, where he served as a consulting director of museums there until his death.[3]
Henry Ogg Forbes dedicated his book A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago to the zoologist William Alexander Forbes, who died on an expedition to West Africa in 1883. They had been friends and classmate at the University of Edinburgh.[4] Forbes is mentioned in A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.

Publications

External Publications

A naturalist’s wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago. A narrative of travel and exploration from 1878-1883’ (London 1885

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