Sir William Forbes, 6th Baronet (5 April 1739 – 12 November 1806) was a Scottish

Scottish people

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 banker, born in Edinburgh

Edinburgh

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 to Sir William Forbes, 5th Baronet, and Christian Forbes. On 20 September 1770 he married Elizabeth Hay (died 26 December 1789), daughter of Sir James Hay of Haystoun, 4th Baronet of Smithfield and Dorriel Campbell. They had six children.

Children

1. Sir William Forbes, 7th Baronet of Pitsligo (21 December 1773 – 10 October 1828)
2. John Hay Forbes
   John Hay Forbes
   John Hay Forbes, Lord Medwyn was a Scottish judge.-Life:Forbes was the second son of Sir William Forbes, 6th Baronet, and was born at Edinburgh. He was admitted advocate in 1799, was for some time sheriff-depute of Perthshire, and was made lord of session in January 1825, when he assumed the...
   
    of Medwyn (September 1776–1854)
3. Christian Forbes
4. Rebecca Forbes, who married in 1802 Alexander Ranaldson MacDonell of Glengarry
5. Elizabeth Forbes
6. Jane Forbes

Career

He became partner in the banking firm of Messrs. John Coutts & Co.

Coutts

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; two years later a new company was formed, of which he rose to be manager, and which in 1830 became the Union Bank of Scotland.

He was author

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of a Life of his friend Beattie, the Scottish poet, and of "Memoirs of a Banking-House".