James Edwin Forbes

James Edwin Forbes FRIBA (1876 - 1955) was an architect primarily based in London from 1905 to 1930 in partnership with John Duncan Tate.

He studied at the Edinburgh School of Applied Art and in 1899 became assistant to Edward William Mountford in London until 1901 when he won the Grissell Medal.

[2] In 1901 he commenced a practice in Colmore House, 21 Waterloo Street, Birmingham where his assistant was John Duncan Tate.

This partnership became prolific in its output of domestic houses in the arts and crafts style, mainly in the Home Counties.

William George Forbes (1838-1884) and Janet Tod (1848-1908) He married Gwendolen Evans (1878-1941) daughter of the late Dr George Harrison Evans FRCS and Mrs Agnes Louisa Chance on 1 January 1904[4] in St Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston and they had three sons: After the death of his first wife, he married Barbara Gordon Hollingsworth (1914-1971) in Amersham in 1942.