John Forbes of Turnbull, Forbes

London merchant, partner in Turnbull Forbes (q.v.), which was bankrupt in 1802. Secondary sources show him as having fled to America. In 1822, John Forbes successfully defended a claim against him in the courts of Demerara arising from his earlier bankruptcy. This was possibly the same man as the John Forbes formerly collector of customs at Demerara who died in his 72nd year of Tavistock Place.

London Gazette 15617 3 September 1803 p. 1165; Jabez Henry, The Judgment of the Court of Demerara, in the Case of Odwin V. Forbes, on the Plea of the English Certificate of Bankruptcy in Bar, in a Foreign Jurisdiction, to the Suit of a Foreign Creditor as Confirmed in Appeal, with the Authorities, and Foreign and English Cases (1823), p. 261; London Times 10/02/1823.