Arthur Forbes, 9th Earl of Granard

Arthur Patrick Hastings Forbes, 9th Earl of Granard (10 April 1915 – 21 November 1992), was a British peer.

Early life Born on 10 April 1915, he was the son of Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard (1874–1948), and Beatrice (née Mills) Forbes, Countess of Granard (1883–1972), an American socialite who was the daughter of Ogden Mills and a descendant of the Livingston and the Schuyler families from New York. He had one younger brother, the Hon. John Forbes, and two sisters, Eileen, Lady Bute, of Scotland, and Moira, Countess Rossi, of Switzerland. he was appointed Air Attaché to Romania, being given the rank of Wing Commander. He used his own aircraft, a Percival Q6, to fly, often secretly, British subjects and other diplomats who had escaped from Poland during the German invasion from Cernăuți in Northern Romania (now Chernivtsi in Ukraine) to Bucharest and on to Greece or Turkey. Later in the war, he acted as an adviser to the Minister of State for the Middle East. Together, Marie and Lord Granard lived at Castleforbes demesne, the largest estate in County Longford, and were the parents of two children:

Lady Moira Forbes (b. 1951), who married Prince Charles-Antoine Lamoral de Ligne-La Trémoïlle, son of Prince Jean Charles Lamoral of Ligne-La Trémoïlle, in February 1971. They divorced in 1975 and she married, secondly, José de Guerrico Casado-Sastre in 1978. Lady Georgina Forbes (b. 1952), an owner of international showjumping horses.

The Earl of Granard died at his home in Morges, Switzerland, in 1992 at age 77. As he had no sons, his nephew Peter inherited the title and continues to be the holder.