Colonel Oswald Boyd Forbes CBE ED (10 August 1887 – 26 March 1960) was a tea-broker, military officer and politician in Colonial Ceylon.
[2] His older brother, Charles Morton, was a Royal Navy officer, achieving the rank of Admiral of the Fleet in 1940.
[3] In 1909 he joined his father's firm, Forbes and Walker Ltd (a merchant brokerage house), after business training in an accountants' office and in the Hong Kong Bank in London.
[8] In 1957 he was appointed as a member of the Parliament of Ceylon,[9] replacing Reginald Percy Gaddum.
[13] Forbes married Gladys Irene née Copland Mackie on 19 November 1919[14] at the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Edinburgh.