Background
He was the son of Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard and Beatrice Forbes, an American socialite who was the daughter of Ogden Mills and a descendant of the Livingston family and the Schuyler family from New New York
Minister of State director of Texaco
He was the son of Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard and Beatrice Forbes, an American socialite who was the daughter of Ogden Mills and a descendant of the Livingston family and the Schuyler family from New New York
He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.
He received a Bachelor from Cambridge University in 1937. During World World War II, he acted as an air adviser for the Royal Air Force, during his service Arthur acted as an adviser to the Minister of State for the Middle East. From 1972 to 1990 he was a director of Texaco.
Lord Granard also served as a director for other companies, including the Nabisco Group Limited. and Martini & Rossi.
Lord Granard"s wife, Marie-Madeleine Eugenie, Princess of Faucigny Lucinge, died in 1990. Arthur Forbes, 9th Earl of Granard, died at his home in Morges, Switzerland in 1992 at age seventy-seven.