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FORBES, ALEXANDER PENROSE (1817-1875)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 636 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FORBES, See also:ALEXANDER PENROSE (1817-1875) , Scottish divine, was See also:born at See also:Edinburgh on' the 6th of See also:June 1817. He was the second son of See also:John See also:Henry Forbes, See also:Lord Medwyn, a See also:judge of the See also:court of session, and See also:grandson of See also:Sir See also:William Forbes of Pitsligo. He studied first at the Edinburgh See also:Academy, then for two years under the Rev. See also:Thomas See also:Dale, the poet, in See also:Kent, passed one session at See also:Glasgow University in 1833, and,having chosen the career of the See also:Indian See also:civil service, completed his studies with distinction at. Haileybury See also:College. In 1836 he went to See also:Madras and secured See also:early promotion, but in consequence of See also:ill-See also:health he was obliged to return to See also:England. He then entered Brasenose College, See also:Oxford, where in 1841 he,dbtained the Roden See also:Sanskrit scholarship, and graduated in 1844. I-te was at Oxford during the early years of the See also:movement known as Puseyism, and was powerfully influenced by association with See also:Newman, See also:Pusey and See also:Keble. This led him to resign his Indian See also:appointment. In 1844 he was ordained deacoB and See also:priest in the See also:English See also:Church, and held curacies at See also:Aston, Rowant and St Thomas's, Oxford; but being naturally attracted to the Episcopal Church of his native See also:land, then recovering from See also:long depression, he removed in 1846 toStonehaven, the See also:chief See also:town of See also:Kincardineshire. The same See also:year, however, he was appointed to the vicarage of St Saviour's, See also:Leeds, a church founded to preach and illustrate Tractarian principles. In 1848 Forbes was called to succeed See also:Bishop See also:Moir in the see of See also:Brechin.

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residence to See also:Dundee, where he resided till his See also:death, combining the See also:pastoral See also:charge of the See also:congregation with the duties of the see. When he came to Dundee the churchmen were accustomed owing to their small See also:numbers to See also:worship in a See also:room over a. See also:bank. Through his See also:energy several churches were built, and Among them the See also:pro-See also:cathedral of St See also:Paul's. He was prosecuted in the church courts for See also:heresy, the See also:accusation being founded on his See also:primary charge, delivered and published in 18571 in which he set forth his views on the See also:Eucharist. He made a powerful See also:defence of the charge, and was acquitted with "a censure and an admonition." Keble wrote in his defence, and was See also:present at his trial at Edinburgh. Forbes was a See also:good See also:scholar, a scientific theologian and a devoted worker, and was much beloved. He died at Dundee on the 8th of See also:October 1875. See also:Principal See also:works: A See also:Short Explanation of the Nicene Creed (1852); An Explanation, of the See also:Thirty-nine Articles (2 vols., 1867 and 1868) ; Commentary on the Seven See also:Penitential See also:Psalms (1847); Commentary on the See also:Canticles (1853). See Mackey's Bishop Forbes, a Memoir.

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