Thom's Irish Who's Who/Forbes, Major Hon. Donald Alexander

FORBES, Major Hon. Donald Alexander, M.V.O., 4th class (1911). D.S.O. (1917); fourth son of 7th Earl of Granard; b. 1880; m. 1918, Mary Doreen, 2nd dau. of late Andrew Sherlock Lawson, of Aldborough Manor, and Boroughbridge Hall, Yorks, and has issue one dau; served in S. Africa, 1901-2; Military Sec. and A.D.C. to Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (Earl of Aberdeen), 1911-14; Major R.F.A. from 1914; adjt. 1st E. Anglian Brig. R.F.A. in 1909. Naval and Military Club, London.