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Alexander Forbes Group Holdings, commonly referred to as Alexforbes is a diversified financial services organisation. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The company is headquartered in Johannesburg , South Africa , with a presence in two other countries on the African continent : Namibia and Botswana and in the Channel Islands through an offshore Jersey operation.
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Alexander Kinloch Forbes (1821–1865), British administrator in India, writer; Alexander Forbes (explorer) (1778–1862), Scottish explorer; Alexander F. I. Forbes (1871–1959), South African astronomer; Alexander Forbes (neurophysiologist) (1882–1965), American neurophysiologist and medical school professor
Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes (died 1491), was the eldest son of William, 3rd Lord Forbes, and succeeded his father in or before 1483.. The gift of the fine payable to the crown on his marriage was acquired by Margaret, Lady Dirleton, who wished him to marry her own daughter, Margaret Ker.
Alexander Forbes (May 14, 1882 – March 27, 1965) was an American electrophysiologist, neurophysiologist, and professor of physiology at Harvard Medical School. [1] He "had an enormous impact on the physiology and neuroscience of the twentieth century."
Alexander was the youngest of four children born to Rear-Admiral John James Leith and his wife and step-niece, Margaret Forbes. [2] He was born at Aberdeen on 6 August 1847. [3] His father, John James Leith, was the son of General Alexander Leith Hay and nephew of Sir Andrew Leith Hay.
Alexander Forbes (1778–1862) was a 19th-century Scottish merchant, explorer, and author. His book California: A History of Upper and Lower California, published in 1839, is perhaps the first full account in English of California. [1] He is the brother of distinguished Scottish physician Sir John Forbes. [2]
Forbes's maternal grandmother was a sister of Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo, [1] whose activities in 1745 led to the forfeiture of his estate, also in Aberdeenshire. His mother, Christian Forbes, was a member of a collateral branch of the Monymusk family, and was left a widow when William, the elder of two surviving boys from a ...