FORBES, ALEXANDER PENROSE Scot tish divine, was born at Edinburgh on June 6, 1817. In 1836 he joined the Indian Civil Service, but in consequence of ill-health was obliged to return to England. He then entered Brasenose college, Oxford, and won the Roden Sanskrit scholarship (1841), graduating in 1844. At Oxford he was powerfully influenced by Newman, Pusey and Keble. This led him to resign his Indian appointment. In 1844 he was ordained deacon and priest, and in 1848 succeeded Bishop Moir in the see of Brechin. He removed the episcopal residence to Dundee, where he resided till his death. He was prosecuted in the church courts for heresy, but acquitted with "a censure and an admonition." Forbes was a good scholar, a scientific theologian and a devoted worker, and was much beloved. He died at Dundee on Oct. 8, Principal works: A Short Explanation of the Nicene Creed (1852) ; An Explanation of the Thirty-nine Articles (2 vols., 1867 and 1868) ; Commentary on the Seven Penitential Psalms (1847) ; Commentary on the Canticles (1853). See Mackey's Bishop Forbes, a Memoir.