FORBES ADAM, Rev Sir Timothy Stephen Beilby 4th Bt (1923-2019)
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Richard R
Mar 27, 2019, 4:39:02 AM3/27/19
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From the Telegraph and Times of 27 March 2019: FORBES ADAM Revd Sir Timothy Stephen Beilby Forbes Adam, Bt. Died peacefully on 22nd March 2019, aged 95 years. The Funeral Service will be held in Yorkshire at 2 p.m. on Saturday 13th April. Please contact the family or J G Fielder & Son Funeral Directors...
He was s of Colin Gurden FORBES ADAM (1889-1982) and Hon Irene Constance LAWLEY (1889-1976) d of 3rd Baron WENLOCK (1849-1912) and Lady Constance Mary LASCELLES (1852-1932, d of 4th Earl of HAREWOOD (1824-92) by his 1st w a dau of 1st Marquess of CLANRICARDE (1802-74)). He m 1954 Penelope d of George Campbell MUNDAY of Leverington Hall, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, and had 4 daus. His brother succeeds him.
[Sir] Nigel Colin FORBES ADAM [5th Bt] (b 1930), has yet to establish his claim and appear on the Baronetage Roll. He m 1st 1954 Teresa Hermione Idena (1932-2005) d of Cmdr David Lambert ROBERTSON (1905-79) by his c1926 m (reg Q1 London) to his former wife (div before Q3 1947) Felicity Douglas TOMLIN (1904-92, having m 2nd Q3 1947 Basil Royal-Dawson), and had four sons. He m 2nd 1987 Mildred Malise Hare d of Col George ARMITAGE.
SONS LIVING by 1st marriage
CHARLES DAVID (b 1957), ha. He m 1982 Rosalind Cecilia (b 1958 reg Q2 London) d of Geoffrey Francis COLVILE (1926-2006) by his c1956 m (reg Q1 London) to Janet Camilla HUMPHREYS (1925-2004), and has two sons (Crispin Beilby b 1987 and Hal Francis b 1989) and a dau (Charlotte India b 1992).
Titus Desmond (b 1960)
Julian Nigel Peregrine (b 1961) m with issue
Harry Crispin (b 1962)
Richard R
May 17, 2019, 2:15:19 AM5/17/19
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The Telegraph's obit:
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The Rev Sir Timothy Forbes Adam, 4th Bt, who has died aged 95, gave up a career on the West End stage and a landed inheritance for the life of a sporting country parson.
Descended on both sides from grandees of British India, Timothy Forbes Adam was a talented young actor... In 1954 he married the actress Penelope Munday while both were in rep at Dundee, returning for the evening performance after the wedding.
Soon afterwards, Forbes Adam’s mother handed over to him the Escrick Park estate near Selby in North Yorkshire which she had inherited from her father, Lord Wenlock. Forbes Adam brought his young family to live there, but an intense Christian faith was already calling him towards the priesthood. Having passed the estate to his younger brother, Nigel – their middle brother Desmond had died in a car accident – he made retreats at the Community of the Resurrection at Mirfield, studied Theology at Chichester and was ordained in 1962.
...Stephen Timothy Beilby Forbes Adam (always known as Timmy) was born in Bombay on November 19 1923, the second child and eldest son of Colin Forbes Adam, who was private secretary to the Governor of Bombay and later chairman of Yorkshire Post Newspapers. Colin’s father, Frank Forbes Adam, 1st baronet, had gone out to India in 1872 as a merchant and prospered as president of the Bank of Bombay.
Timmy’s mother, Irene Forbes Adam, was the only child of Beilby Lawley, 3rd Lord Wenlock, who was Governor of Madras in the 1890s and whose family had been seated at Escrick since 1820. Timmy was still a toddler when the family returned there – at first to live in the vast Escrick Hall, which needed 30 indoor servants, and later in a handsome but more manageable Queen Anne house at Skipwith. Escrick Hall became Queen Margaret’s boarding school for girls.
...He was separated from his wife, though they did not divorce until much later. It was indicative of a worldlier side to his nature that when the alleged adulteries of his youngest daughter Sonia’s then husband, the television actor James Nesbitt, were exposed in a Sunday tabloid, Forbes Adam made a public statement of forgiveness – “Which honest man could not but say: ‘There but for the Grace of God go I?’ ” – neatly compounding Nesbitt’s discomfiture.
In his later years Timmy Forbes Adam formed a loving partnership with Mary Rose Blacker, née O’Neill, which lasted until her death in 2016. He is survived by his daughters, Victoria, Lucy and Sonia; a fourth daughter, Kate, died last year. The baronetcy in which he succeeded his cousin Christopher in 2009 passes to his brother Nigel, born in 1930.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/05/17/rev-sir-timothy-forbes-adam-4th-bt-actor-turned-sporting-country/
The Rev Sir Timothy Forbes Adam, 4th Bt, who has died aged 95, gave up a career on the West End stage and a landed inheritance for the life of a sporting country parson.
Descended on both sides from grandees of British India, Timothy Forbes Adam was a talented young actor... In 1954 he married the actress Penelope Munday while both were in rep at Dundee, returning for the evening performance after the wedding.
Soon afterwards, Forbes Adam’s mother handed over to him the Escrick Park estate near Selby in North Yorkshire which she had inherited from her father, Lord Wenlock. Forbes Adam brought his young family to live there, but an intense Christian faith was already calling him towards the priesthood. Having passed the estate to his younger brother, Nigel – their middle brother Desmond had died in a car accident – he made retreats at the Community of the Resurrection at Mirfield, studied Theology at Chichester and was ordained in 1962.
...Stephen Timothy Beilby Forbes Adam (always known as Timmy) was born in Bombay on November 19 1923, the second child and eldest son of Colin Forbes Adam, who was private secretary to the Governor of Bombay and later chairman of Yorkshire Post Newspapers. Colin’s father, Frank Forbes Adam, 1st baronet, had gone out to India in 1872 as a merchant and prospered as president of the Bank of Bombay.
Timmy’s mother, Irene Forbes Adam, was the only child of Beilby Lawley, 3rd Lord Wenlock, who was Governor of Madras in the 1890s and whose family had been seated at Escrick since 1820. Timmy was still a toddler when the family returned there – at first to live in the vast Escrick Hall, which needed 30 indoor servants, and later in a handsome but more manageable Queen Anne house at Skipwith. Escrick Hall became Queen Margaret’s boarding school for girls.
...He was separated from his wife, though they did not divorce until much later. It was indicative of a worldlier side to his nature that when the alleged adulteries of his youngest daughter Sonia’s then husband, the television actor James Nesbitt, were exposed in a Sunday tabloid, Forbes Adam made a public statement of forgiveness – “Which honest man could not but say: ‘There but for the Grace of God go I?’ ” – neatly compounding Nesbitt’s discomfiture.
In his later years Timmy Forbes Adam formed a loving partnership with Mary Rose Blacker, née O’Neill, which lasted until her death in 2016. He is survived by his daughters, Victoria, Lucy and Sonia; a fourth daughter, Kate, died last year. The baronetcy in which he succeeded his cousin Christopher in 2009 passes to his brother Nigel, born in 1930.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/05/17/rev-sir-timothy-forbes-adam-4th-bt-actor-turned-sporting-country/
colinp
May 17, 2019, 4:52:10 PM5/17/19
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The death of his daughter Kate (Catherine Mary Stone b 1956) has not been reported here nor can I immediately find a death notice. Anyone have any information?
G. Willis
May 18, 2019, 4:18:49 PM5/18/19
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I had a look yesterday, Colin, but couldn't find anything. It appears she resumed her maiden name (possibly having divorced/ been widowed? Again details were not forthcoming); her children's social media pages didn't yield anything either.
colinp
Sep 6, 2019, 2:32:39 AM9/6/19
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The 5th Baronet is now entered on the Official Roll of the Baronetage
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