FORBES  , a municipal

town of Ashburnham county, New South Wales, Australia, 289 M . W. by N. from Sydney, on the Lachlan river, and with a station on the Great Western railway . Pop . (1901) 4313 . Its importance as a commercial centre is due to its advantageous position between the northern and southern markets . It has steam-sawing and flour-mills, breweries and wool-scouring establishments; while the surrounding country produces good quantities of cereals, lucerne, wine and fruit . FORBES-ROBERTSON, JOHNSTON (1853— ), English actor, was the son of John Forbes-Robertson of Aberdeen, an art critic . He was educated at Charterhouse, and studied at the Royal Academy schools with a view to becoming a painter . But though he kept up his interest in that art, in 1874 he turned mainly spent in his native village . He died at Padua in 1768 before the completion of the great work on which he had long co-operated with Facciolati . This was the vast Latin Lexicon (see FACCIOLATI), which has formed the basis of all similar works that have since been published . He was engaged with his Herculean task for nearly 35 years, and the transcription of the manuscript by Luigi Violato occupied eight years more .