Archie Forbes

Male, Deceased Person

1913 – 1999

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Who was Archie Forbes?

Archibald Peter Sturrock Forbes CBE, known as Archie Forbes, was a British Colonial Officer who rose to become the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture & Cooperative Development in Tanganyika. He married Mary Manning on 10 June 1939; they had two children.

Forbes was born in Delwood, Saskatchewan, Canada, the son of Alexander Menzies Forbes and Elizabeth Lilian Forbes. His family moved to Scotland & he was educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh. Following this, he went Edinburgh University, then Trinity College, Cambridge and finally the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad & Tobago.

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Born
May 5, 1913
Died
Jan 27, 1999
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on July 23, 2013

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