6. Norman Forbes ROBERTSON was born on 24 Sep 1858 in Albion Cottage, Thornhill Road, Islington; was christened on 7 Nov 1858 in Holy Trinity, Islington; died on 29 Sep 1932 in Heavitree, Exeter.
Address: 1913 - 18, Cotley, Lodge Hill Road, Bourne, Surrey
Notes:
Birth:
Dec Q 1857 1b 200 Islington
Died:
Mar Q 1936 2a 619 Surrey South Western
Ian FF Robertson of Lower Bourne, Farnham, Surrey died 11th Jan 1936.
Probate granted 21st Feb 1936 to Beatrice Forbes Robertson Hale (single woman) Effects - £7055 12s 5d
Norman Forbes ROBERTSON (1.John1) was born on 24 Sep 1858 in Albion Cottage, Thornhill Road, Islington; was christened on 7 Nov 1858 in Holy Trinity, Islington; died on 29 Sep 1932 in Heavitree, Exeter.
Other Events and Attributes:
Possessions: From 1900 to, Stocks Mill, Wittersham
Address: 1901; Address: 5, Old Bond Street, London
Obituary: 30 Sep 1932
Notes:
Norman Forbes-Robertson was the son of John Forbes-Robertson (1822-1903) and one of the 11 siblings of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson. He was also a notable actor and a friend of Ellen Terry, Oscar Wilde, Edward Elgar and Henry Irving. Together with Bram Stoker, he helped to organize Irving's funeral; a large body of letters connected with this event still exist. Forbes-Robertson was a prominent member of London's exclusive Garrick Club.
See:-
Scrimgeour's Small Scribbling Diary, 1914-1916
Page 101 - 102 - November 1914
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Xn_MHtbe8swC&pg=PA101&lpg=PA101&dq=norman+forbes-robertson&source=bl&ots=IekemOmQey&sig=AIqD7aE0O8yZ4r2R-pJ-NNWEa9M&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj_iNDbstbJAhXI1xoKHVyPBss4ChDoAQgzMAU#v=onepage&q=norman%20forbes-robertson&f=false
Scrimgeour notes 5 children, but Frank was born years before Norman's marriage to Louisa Wilson.
Birth:
Dec Q 1858 1b 194 Islington
Possessions:
STOCKS MILL, WITTERSHAM
This large white weatherboarded post mill on its single-storey tarred brick roundhouse, is the largest postmill in Kent. Though originally carrying common sweeps, four single-shuttered spring sets had been in use for most of its life, The mill is winded by a tail-pole and talthur and never had a fantail. It drove two pairs of stones overdrift, one each at breast and tail respectively. Its centre post is one of the stoutest to be seen on any mill. It stood on six foot high brick piers.
The mill was built in 1781 and there is a date carved on the post "RV 1781", though this may possibly record the date of its removal as some think it started life at a previous site. The mill stopped work in 1900 and both the mill and the nearby Tudor-style millhouse were purchased by the Edwardian actor, Norman Forbes-Robertson. He took a keen interest in the mill and kept it in good order and well repaired during his ownership.
However, the mill still needed extensive repairs by 1958 when new sweeps were fitted; more repairs were needed again in 1968. The mill was purchased by Kent County Council who undertook major restoration in 1980, fittingnew sweeps and repairing and repaintingthe woodwork. The mill has been firmly anchored by the tail-pole and massive steps; though the sweeps are shutter-less, they are turned annually through 90degrees to relieve strain. Nearly all the machinery has been dispersed.
The mill is open to the public by the "Friends of Stocks Mill" on summer Sunday afternoons.
LOCATION: Beside the B2082 road, 1 mile north-east of the village of Wittersham.
GRID REF: TQ 132273
Address:
His age was given as 39 in 1901 which puts his birth in 1862. He was actually 43
Administration
Margaret Forbes Robertson of 3, Grosvenor Mansions, Grosvenor Road, Westcliff on Sea Essex, died 21 July 1940 at Runwell Emergency Hospital, Wickford, Essex.
Administration, London, to Frances Marie Desiree Harrod, Widow.
Effects £22
Eric FORBES-ROBERTSON (1.John1) was born in 1865 in London; died on 5 Jun 1935; was buried in Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green.
Other Events and Attributes:
Military: 1915
Address: 1934, 1, Cathcart Studios, Cathcart Road, SW 10; Artist
Obituary: 11 Mar 1935; Obituary
Notes:
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Forbes-Robertson
The Tate Gallery owns a painting by Eric: "In the Forest, Pont-Aven" 1895
Oil on canvas T01825 Purchased 1973
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/forbes-robertson-in-the-forest-pont-aven-t01825/text-catalogue-entry
Interesting appreciation of Eric Forbes-Robertson as an artist.
http://icknieldindagations.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/eric-forbes-robertson-post.html
Died:
First name(s) FRANCES
Last name HARROD
Birth year 1867
Age 89
Death quarter 2
Death year 1956
District KENSINGTON
County London
Volume 5C
Page 983
Birth:
First name(s) IDA V
Last name FORBES-ROBERTSON
Birth year 1902
Birth quarter 1
District FULHAM
County London
Volume 1A
Page 256
Died:
First name(s) IDA
Last name FORBES-ROBERTSON
Birth day 9
Birth month 2
Birth year 1902
Death quarter 4
Death year 1991
District WESTMINSTER
Register number 1191
County London
Volume 15
Page 1919
33. Charles David RICHARDSON was born on 1 Jan 1945 in Marylebone, Greater London; died on 20 Sep 1998 in Watford, Hertfordshire; was buried in 1998 in Highgate Cemetery (East) UK.
Ann was educated in Switzerland. As a result of being able to speak fluent German, in 1939 she got a job in Berlin with the War Office. She was on the last train out of Berlin at the outbreak of war.
Cremated:
Our mother, who was born in Manchester in 1920, was schooled in Belgium and Switzerland. Her parents divorced when she was only four and her mother, a successful actor's agent, had the means and sufficient lack of interest in her six year -old daughter, to wave her off on the Victoria Station/Ostend boat train (a farewell kiss would have been an emotional exaggeration!)
She had been to two boarding schools in England before going to Belgium but she wasn't prepared for a 'total immersion' in French -she was only allowed to speak English on Thursdays. She never took to the gruelling school life in the outbacks of Antwerp and finally managed to persuade her mother, who she saw mercifully little of, to have her moved to St Gallen in Switzerland: There, after having spent seven years speaking French, she was thrown into a Swiss German environment - and adored it. Rigorous morning classes were followed by skiing in winter and long mountain hikes in spring and autumn. Her close friend at the time, Maribel Maranon, daughter of a well known Spanish doctor, had to return suddenly to Madrid at the outbreak of the Spanish civil war.
Ann's command of German was such that she had no difficulty in finding work in Berlin once she left school. She worked in the passport office in The British Embassy until the outbreak of war and acquired a great collection of Jazz 78r.p.m's; exchanging coffee, received via diplomatic circles, for early Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Paul Robeson, etc, records - lots of people were only too happy to get rid of 'black' music during the Nazi era, in exchange for a beverage which had become very scarce. Her eclectic musical tastes found her in the Berlin Concert Hall where, on two occasions she almost rubbed shoulders with 'an insignificant dwarf of a man whose clothes, like his ideas, were too big for him' -Adolf Hitler.
Her boss at the B.E. was an affable, middle-aged gentleman by the name of Frank Foley who, she then thought, spoke and understood little, if any, German. Great was her surprise when she learnt, less than ten years ago, that not only had her charming boss been virtually bi-lingual but he had also been responsible for saving countless Jews. (see:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Foley )
After the war and once her three children were in their teens, she started working with a charming and dynamic couple who had recently set up the International House Language School in Shaftesbury Avenue -a stone's throw from Piccadilly Circus. A long and fruitful working and social relationship ensued with John and Brita Haycraft during which time Ann ran the accommodation agency for the students and started up her own summer courses for foreign school children in various centres throughout Britain.
In recent years, having moved from London to Shoreham on the coast of West Sussex, Ann had the good fortune to have various 'Guardian Angels' as neighbours, especially her son-in-Iaw's brother and his wife. She wasn't always the easiest person to get on with; she could be autocratic and domineering at times and loved nothing better than a good political discussion (often argument!) Like our father, George, she was a staunch socialist.
Ann was armed with a ready, and often wicked, wit: - on answering the phone to a double glazing salesman for the third time in the same week, anxious to sell her his wares, she said that she would consult her husband who had died 25 years before, but still gave her good advice - she never heard another word!
She will be missed by those 8 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren who she had more empathy with than her own mother had ever had with her and, of course, by her two children.
Birth:
First name(s) PETER J B F
Last name ROBERTSON
Birth year 1927
Birth quarter 1
Mother's last name THORNTON
District HAWARDEN
County Flintshire
Country Wales
Volume 11B
Page 313
Died:
First name(s) PETER JOHN B
Last name FORBES-ROBERTSON
Death quarter 4
Death year 1995
District WANDSWORTH
District number 2561C
Register number C98A
Entry number 071
Date of registration mm/yy 1295
County London
Birth:
First name(s) JOHN
Last name FORBES-ROBERTSON
Birth year 1928
Birth quarter 3
Registration month -
Mother's last name THORNTON
District EAST PRESTON
County Sussex
Country England
Volume 2B
Page 459
Birth:
First name(s) PEGGIE J
Last name FORBES-ROBERTSON
Birth year 1930
Birth quarter 1
Mother's last name THORNTON
District BARNET
County Middlesex
Country England
Volume 3A
Page 742
Died:
First name(s) PEGGY JESSIE
Last name DRAKE
Birth day 23
Birth month 12
Birth year 1930
Death quarter 2
Death year 1986
District KENSINGTON & CHELSEA
Register number 586
County London
Volume 13
Page 1732
1822 - 1903 (80 years)
