Lord Forbes is the senior Lordship of Parliament in the Peerage of Scotland.

His nephew, the twenty-first Lord, served as a Scottish Representative Peer between 1917 and 1924.

[4] The title is currently held by his son, Malcolm Nigel, the twenty-third Lord Forbes, who succeeded in 2013.

He died later in the same year (1606) as his father and there would be dispute over whether to count his brief succession in the numbering of Lordships.

[5] The heir apparent is the present holder's grandson, Geordie Malcolm Andrew Forbes (b.