George Arthur Hastings Forbes, 7th Earl of Granard KP (5 August 1833 – 25 August 1889), styled Viscount Forbes from 1836 to 1837, was an Irish peer and militia officer.
From his mother's second marriage to Thomas Nugent Vaughan, he had a younger half-sister, Angela Frances Mary Vaughan, who married Sir Frederick FitzWygram, 4th Baronet.
[2] Granard was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel commandant of the Westmeath Rifle Militia on 26 December 1855.
The regiment became the 9th (Westmeath Militia) Battalion, Rifle Brigade, in 1881.
Granard was President of the British Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta from 1875 until his death, and was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Papal Order of St. Gregory the Great.