Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard

The Right Honourable The Earl of Granard KP GCVO PC
The Earl of Granard caricatured by "Spy" in Vanity Fair, 1908
Master of the Horse
In office 1923–1936
Monarch	George V
Preceded by	The Marquess of Bath
Succeeded by	The Duke of Beaufort
In office 6 September 1907 – 25 May 1915
Monarch	Edward VII George V
Prime Minister	Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman H. H. Asquith
Preceded by	The Earl of Sefton
Succeeded by	The Earl of Chesterfield
Personal details
Born	(1874-09-17)17 September 1874
Died	10 September 1948(1948-09-10) (aged 73)
Nationality	British
Political party	Liberal
Spouse(s)	Beatrice Mills

Bernard Arthur William Patrick Hastings Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard, KP, GCVO, PC (17 September 1874 – 10 September 1948), styled Viscount Forbes from 1874 to 1889, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Liberal politician.

Granard was the son of George Forbes, 7th Earl of Granard, and the Honourable Mary Frances Petre, daughter of William Petre, 12th Baron Petre. He succeeded as eighth Earl of Granard on the death of his father in 1889, aged only 14.

In 1895 Granard was able to take his seat in the House of Lords in right of his junior title of Baron Granard, which was in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (all his other titles were in the Peerage of Ireland). When the Liberals came to power in 1905 under Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Granard was appointed a Lord-in-Waiting to Edward VII (government whip in the House of Lords) and Assistant Postmaster-General, posts he held until 1907 and 1909 respectively. In 1907 he was admitted to the Privy Council and appointed Master of the Horse, an office he retained until 1915.

Grandard was also involved in Irish politics. He was a member of the Irish Food Convention, Food Controller for Ireland in 1918, in which year he was also admitted to the Irish Privy Council. He was a member of the short-lived Senate of Southern Ireland in 1921 and of the Senate of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1934. He was again Master of the Horse between February 1924 and 1936, but by this time this post had ceased being a political office. Granard also served as Vice-Admiral of Connaught, Lord Lieutenant of Longford. He was made a Knight of the Order of St Patrick in 1909.