Arthur Forbes, 9th Earl of Granard

Arthur Patrick Hastings Forbes, 9th Earl of Granard (10 April 1915 – 19 November 1992), was a British peer.

John Forbes, and two sisters, Eileen, Lady Bute, of Scotland, and Moira, Countess Rossi, of Switzerland.

[2] Early in the Second World War, on 31 October 1939,[3] he was appointed Air Attaché to Romania, being given the rank of Wing Commander.

He used his own aircraft, a Percival Q6, to fly, often secretly, British subjects and other diplomats who had escaped from Poland during the German invasion from Cernăuți in Northern Romania (now Chernivtsi in Ukraine) to Bucharest and on to Greece or Turkey.

Lord Granard also served as a director for other companies, including the Nabisco Group Ltd. and Martini & Rossi.