Forbes, Lewis William, Dd

Forbes, Lewis William, D.D.

a Scotch clergyman, graduated at the university and King's College, Aberdeen, March 29, 1811; was licensed to preach July 4, 1815; presented to the living at Boharm in June, and ordained August 20, 1816; elected moderator of the General Assembly in May 1852, and died January 8, 1854, aged sixty years. He occupied a prominent position in the Church in the North, was most exemplary in the discharge of his duties, and much esteemed. He published the sermon he preached at the opening of the General Assembly in 1853, and also An Account of the Parish of Boharm. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 3:228, 898.