Robert Bennet Forbes
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Robert Bennet Forbes, was an American sea captain, China merchant and ship owner. He was active in ship construction, maritime safety, the opium trade, and charitable activities, including food aid to
Opium ships at Lintin, 1824
The bark Canton Packet, built for J. & T. H. Perkins of Boston
Fragment of brick from the Great Wall of China, collected in 1850 by Peter Cracroft, captain of HMS Reynard, and presented to the East India Marine Society in Salem, Massachusetts, by Robert Forbes in 1852
John Murray Forbes
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John Murray Forbes was an American railroad magnate, merchant, opium merchant, philanthropist and abolitionist. He was president of both the Michigan Central railroad and the Chicago, Burlington and Q
Robert Bennet Forbes
…to Ralph Bennet Forbes and Margaret Perkins, sister of the trader in slaves and China opium, Thomas Perkins. His brothers were Thomas Tunno Forbes and John Murray Forbes. On October 19, 1817, at age 13, he joined the crew on his uncle Thomas' Canton Packet and made his first voyage to China, the first of the three…
Forbes' Back Bay residence, designed by Peabody & Stearns