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Forbes family, the Glossary

The Forbes family is one of the components of the Boston Brahmins—a wealthy extended American family long prominent in Boston, Massachusetts.^[1]

115 relations: Aberdeenshire, Alexander Forbes (neurophysiologist), Amelia Meath, Anglicanism, Anne Bradstreet, Arthur M. Young, Beatrice Forbes Manz, Bell Telephone Company, Birdwood (Thomasville, Georgia), Boston, Boston Brahmin, Brice Lalonde, Cabot family, Cabot, Cabot & Forbes, Cape Cod, Captain Robert Bennet Forbes House, Charles Elliott Perkins, Charles Pickering Bowditch, Chicago, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, China Forbes, Cuba, Democratic Party (United States), Doctrine, East Florida, Ed Droste, Edward W. Forbes, Elizabeth Islands, Elliot Forbes, Erastus Corning, Falmouth, Massachusetts, Francis Blackwell Forbes, Fur, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Gosnold, Massachusetts, Governor-General of the Philippines, Griswold family, Grizzly Bear (band), Haiti, Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, Harris, Forbes & Co., Henry Lee Higginson, History of opium in China, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Howqua, International Peace Institute, J.M. Forbes & Co., James Colt, James Frederick Joy, ... Expand index (65 more) »
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Aberdeenshire

Aberdeenshire (Aiberdeenshire; Siorrachd Obar Dheathain) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland.

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Alexander Forbes (neurophysiologist)

Alexander Forbes (May 14, 1882, Milton, Massachusetts – March 27, 1965, Milton, Massachusetts) was an American electrophysiologist, neurophysiologist, and professor of physiology at Harvard Medical School.

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Amelia Meath

Amelia Randall Meath (born July 2, 1988) is an American musician, songwriter, producer, and dancer who is a member of the musical groups Sylvan Esso and Mountain Man.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.

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Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet (née Dudley; March 8, 1612 – September 16, 1672) was among the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first writer in England's North American colonies to be published.

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Arthur M. Young

Arthur Middleton Young (November 3, 1905 – May 30, 1995) was an American inventor, helicopter pioneer, philosopher, astrologer, and author.

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Beatrice Forbes Manz

Beatrice Forbes Manz is an American historian of the Middle East and Central Asia who specializes in nomads and the Timurid dynasty.

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Bell Telephone Company

The Bell Telephone Company was the initial corporate entity from which the Bell System originated to build a continental conglomerate and monopoly in telecommunication services in the United States and Canada.

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Birdwood (Thomasville, Georgia)

Birdwood is a estate in Thomasville, Georgia.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Boston Brahmin

The Boston Brahmins or Boston elite are members of Boston's historic upper class.

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Brice Lalonde

Brice Lalonde (born 10 February 1946) is a former green party leader in France, who ran for President of France in the Presidential elections, 1981.

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Cabot family

The Cabot family is one of the Boston Brahmin families, also known as the "first families of Boston". Forbes family and Cabot family are business families of the United States, families from Massachusetts and political families of the United States.

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Cabot, Cabot & Forbes

Cabot, Cabot & Forbes (CC&F) is a real estate development firm in Alewife, Massachusetts.

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Cape Cod

Cape Cod is a peninsula extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States.

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Captain Robert Bennet Forbes House

The Captain Robert Bennet Forbes House, also known as the R. B. Forbes House and Forbes House Museum (and formerly as the American China Trade Museum), is a house museum located at 215 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts.

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Charles Elliott Perkins

Charles Elliott Perkins (November 24, 1840 – November 8, 1907) was an American businessman and president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.

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Charles Pickering Bowditch

Charles Pickering Bowditch (September 30, 1842 – June 1, 1921) was an American financier, archaeologist, cryptographer and linguistics scholar who specialized in Mayan epigraphy.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad

The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad was a railroad that operated in the Midwestern United States.

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China Forbes

China Forbes (born April 29, 1970) is an American singer and songwriter who has been the lead singer of the band Pink Martini since 1995.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Doctrine

Doctrine (from doctrina, meaning "teaching, instruction") is a codification of beliefs or a body of teachings or instructions, taught principles or positions, as the essence of teachings in a given branch of knowledge or in a belief system.

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East Florida

East Florida (Florida Oriental) was a colony of Great Britain from 1763 to 1783 and a province of the Spanish Empire from 1783 to 1821.

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Ed Droste

Edward Droste (born October 22, 1978) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, formerly of the rock band Grizzly Bear.

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Edward W. Forbes

Edward Waldo Forbes (1873-1969) was an American art historian.

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Elizabeth Islands

The Elizabeth Islands are a chain of over 20 small islands extending southwest from the southern coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts in the United States.

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Elliot Forbes

Elliot Forbes (August 20, 1917, Cambridge, Massachusetts – January 9, 2006, in Cambridge), known as "El", was an American conductor and musicologist noted for his Beethoven scholarship.

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Erastus Corning

Erastus Corning (December 14, 1794 – April 9, 1872) was an American businessman and politician from Albany, New York.

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Falmouth, Massachusetts

Falmouth is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Francis Blackwell Forbes

Francis Blackwell Forbes (August 11, 1839 – May 2, 1908) was an American botanist with expertise in Chinese seed-producing plants who also worked as a merchant and opium trader in Asia.

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Fur

Fur is a thick growth of hair that covers the skin of almost all mammals.

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Gardiner Greene Hubbard

Gardiner Greene Hubbard (August 25, 1822 – December 11, 1897) was an American lawyer, financier, and community leader.

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Gosnold, Massachusetts

Gosnold is a town that encompasses the Elizabeth Islands in Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Governor-General of the Philippines

The governor-general of the Philippines (Filipinas; Filipino: Gobernador-Heneral ng Pilipinas/Kapitan Heneral ng Pilipinas) was the title of the government executive during the colonial period of the Philippines, governed by Mexico City and Madrid (1565–1898) and the United States (1898–1946), and briefly by Great Britain (1762–1764) and Japan (1942–1945).

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Griswold family

The Griswold family is an American political family from Connecticut and New York of English descent. Forbes family and Griswold family are political families of the United States.

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Grizzly Bear (band)

Grizzly Bear is an American rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2002.

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Haiti

Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas.

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Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad

The Hannibal and St.

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Harris, Forbes & Co.

Harris, Forbes & Co. was an investment banking affiliate of Harris Bank incorporated in 1911.

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Henry Lee Higginson

Henry Lee Higginson (November 18, 1834 – November 14, 1919) was an American businessman best known as the founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a patron of Harvard University.

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History of opium in China

The history of opium in China began with the use of opium for medicinal purposes during the 7th century.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Hong Kong Jockey Club

The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) was founded in 1884 and is one of the oldest institutions in Hong Kong.

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Howqua

Wu Bingjian (17694 September 1843), trading as "Houqua" and better known in the West as "Howqua" or "Howqua II", was a hong merchant in the Thirteen Factories, head of the E-wo hong and leader of the Canton Cohong. Forbes family and Howqua are history of Hong Kong.

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International Peace Institute

The International Peace Institute (IPI, formerly the International Peace Academy) is an independent non-profit think tank founded in 1970 based in New York.

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J.M. Forbes & Co.

J.M. Forbes & Co. is a private investment firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, US.

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James Colt

James Denison Colt (August 19, 1932 – June 5, 2008) was an American lawyer and politician who represented the 4th Essex District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1995 to 1997.

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James Frederick Joy

James Frederick Joy (December 2, 1810 – September 24, 1896) was an American railroad magnate and politician in Detroit, Michigan.

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John Cleve Green

John Cleve Green (April 14, 1800 – April 29, 1875) was a merchant and former partner of John Murray Forbes in the China trading house of Russell & Company.

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John Kerry

John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American attorney, politician, and diplomat who served as the 68th United States secretary of state from 2013 to 2017 in the administration of Barack Obama.

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John Malcolm Forbes

John Malcolm Forbes (1845 – February 19, 1904) was an American businessman and sportsman.

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John Murray Forbes

John Murray Forbes (February 23, 1813 – October 12, 1898) was an American railroad magnate, merchant, philanthropist and abolitionist.

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John Perkins Cushing

John Perkins Cushing (April 22, 1787 – April 12, 1862), called "Ku-Shing" by the Chinese, was a wealthy American sea merchant, opium smuggler, and philanthropist.

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Laucala

Laucala (pronounced) is one of a triplet of small islands that lie to the east of Thurston Point on the island of Taveuni in Fiji.

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Lee Harvey Oswald

Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was a U.S. Marine veteran who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, on November 22, 1963.

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Les Essarts, Forbes family estate

Les Essarts is the Forbes family estate at Saint-Briac, France, and the international family seat of the descendants of James Grant Forbes (b. Shanghai, China), a member of the Forbes family of China and Boston who settled in Brittany at Les Essarts.

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List of ambassadors of the United States to Japan

The is the ambassador from the United States of America to Japan.

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Loyal Publication Society

The Loyal Publication Society was founded in 1863, during a time when the Union Army had suffered many reverses in the Civil War.

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Manila Polo Club

The Manila Polo Club is the premiere polo club in the Philippines.

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Marina Oswald Porter

Marina Nikolayevna Oswald Porter (Prusakova; Марина Николаевна Прусакова; born July 17, 1941) is a Russian-American woman who was the wife of Lee Harvey Oswald.

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Martha's Vineyard

Martha's Vineyard, often simply called the Vineyard, is an island in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, lying just south of Cape Cod.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Massachusetts House of Representatives

The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of Massachusetts.

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Maya Forbes

Maya Forbes (born July 23, 1968) is an American screenwriter and television producer.

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Michael Paine

Michael Ralph Paine (June 25, 1928 – March 1, 2018) was an American engineer who became notable after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, as he was an acquaintance of Lee Harvey Oswald.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.

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Michigan Central Railroad

The Michigan Central Railroad (reporting mark MC) was originally chartered in 1832 to establish rail service between Detroit, Michigan, and St. Joseph, Michigan.

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Midwestern United States

The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau.

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Milton Academy

Milton Academy (informally referred to as Milton) is a co-educational, independent, and college-preparatory boarding and day school in Milton, Massachusetts, educating students in grades K–12.

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Milton, Massachusetts

Milton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States and an affluent suburb of Boston.

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Mountain Man (band)

Mountain Man is an American singing trio of women described as "nestled in the tradition of American folk" with a traditional Appalachian folk sound.

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Nathaniel Thayer Jr.

Nathaniel Thayer II (11 September 1808 in Lancaster, Massachusetts – 7 March 1883 in Boston) was an American financier, philanthropist, and the father of John Eliot Thayer II, an amateur ornithologist.

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National Bank of China

The National Bank of China was a bank in Hong Kong.

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Naushon Island

Naushon Island is the largest of the Elizabeth Islands in southeastern Massachusetts.

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Norman Wait Harris

Norman Wait Harris (August 15, 1846 – July 15, 1916) was an American banker.

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Opium

Opium (or poppy tears, scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is dried latex obtained from the seed capsules of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum.

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Paul J. Sachs

Paul Joseph Sachs (November 24, 1878 – February 18, 1965) was an American investor, businessman and museum director.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Pink Martini

Pink Martini is an American band founded in 1994 by pianist Thomas Lauderdale in Portland, Oregon.

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Port-au-Prince

Port-au-Prince (Pòtoprens) is the capital and most populous city of Haiti.

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Rail transport

Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails.

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Raymond Emerson

Raymond Emerson (November 28, 1886 – October 27, 1977) was an American civil engineer, investment banker, and faculty at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

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Richard Kerry

Richard John Kerry (July 28, 1915 – July 29, 2000) was an American Foreign Service officer and lawyer.

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Robert Bennet Forbes

Robert Bennet Forbes (September 18, 1804 – November 23, 1889), was an American sea captain, China merchant and ship owner.

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Rosemary Forbes Kerry

Rosemary Isabel Forbes (October 27, 1913 – November 14, 2002) was an American nurse and social activist.

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Russell & Company

Russell & Company was the largest American trading house of the mid-19th century in China.

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Ruth Forbes Young

Ruth Forbes Young (October 4, 1903, Milton, Massachusetts – 5 March 1998, Berkeley, California) was a member of the Forbes family and a founder of the International Peace Academy in 1970.

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Ruth Paine

Ruth Hyde Paine (born September 3, 1932) was a former friend of Marina Oswald, who was living with her at the time of the JFK assassination.

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Sailors' Snug Harbor of Boston

Sailors' Snug Harbor of Boston was established in 1852 as a retirement home for sailors.

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Saint-Briac-sur-Mer

Saint-Briac-sur-Mer (literally Saint-Briac on Sea;; Gallo: Saent-Beriac), is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine Department in Brittany in northwestern France.

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Sands Point, New York

Sands Point is a village located at the tip of the Cow Neck Peninsula in the Town of North Hempstead, in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States.

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Sylvan Esso

Sylvan Esso is an American electronic pop duo from Durham, North Carolina which was formed in 2013.

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Tea

Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub native to East Asia which probably originated in the borderlands of southwestern China and northern Myanmar.

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The Greens (France)

The Greens (Les Verts,; VEC or LV) was a centre-left to left-wing green-ecologist political party in France.

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The Reverend

The Reverend is an honorific style given before the names of certain Christian clergy and ministers.

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Thomas Dudley

Thomas Dudley (12 October 157631 July 1653) was a New England colonial magistrate who served several terms as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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Thomas Lauderdale

Thomas Mack Lauderdale (born July 14, 1970) is an American musician and pianist, largely known for his work with his Portland-based band Pink Martini.

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Trustee

Trustee (or the holding of a trusteeship) is a legal term which, in its broadest sense, is a synonym for anyone in a position of trust and so can refer to any individual who holds property, authority, or a position of trust or responsibility for the benefit of another.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_family

Also known as James Grant Forbes.

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