Forbes, Duncan ♂

Education

Student United College 1820-1821 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov. 1821-1822 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Math. Prov.; Log. 1822-1823 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Ethics; Physics; Math. 3. (Ternar). M.A. 1.5.1823. LL.D. 9.1.1847.

Birth/childhood

Said to be born 28.4.1798 at Kinnaird, Perthshire of humble parents. ? identical with the man who was baptised 29.4.1798 son of Peter Forbes, Comrie and Catherine McNiven.

Schoolmaster Straloch then attended Kirkmichael School and Perth Grammar School.

Career

Schoolmaster Straloch then attended Kirkmichael School and Perth Grammar School. [Teacher]

Assistant in school of Linsted and Ord, Calcutta [now Kolkata, India] until 1826 then taught oriental languages in London. Professor of Oriental Languages, Kings College, London 1837-1861. [University professor]

Publications on oriental languages and chess.

A grammar of the Hindustani language. (London: Wm. H. Allen, 1846)

Death

Died 17.8.1868.

Sources

• UYUY452/13/178
• DNB
• F. Boase, Modern English Biography...1851-1900. 6v. (Truro, 1892-1921)
• C.E. Buckland, Dictionary of Indian biography (London, 1906)