Following the Forbes Money Trail

Rosemary Forbes Kerry

We now return to the family of Rosemary Forbes, wife of Fred Kerry's son, Richard, John Forbes Kerry's father. John Kerry would go to Yale and be inducted into Skull and Bones in the class of 1966. He became a Democratic presidential candidate in 2004, running against another member of Skull and Bones, George Walker Bush, class of 1968.

Small world!

The Forbes Family Tree

Richard Kerry's Father-in-Law

Clarence Hatry of Austin Friars' Trust

After his stint at AIC, James Grant Forbes (Rosemary's father) was, according to Alistair Tayler’s description of him in his book--The House of Forbes, published in Aberdeen in 1937--a director of Austin Friars Trust. This so-called trust was merely a ponzi scheme, built by Londoner Clarence Hatry with fraudulent assets, and set up in 1927 which led to the stock collapse in 1929, triggering the great depression in the United States. [10]  The public outcry in the aftermath of this scandal led to creation of the Bank for International Settlements--further centralization of the global banking industry.  

Forbes was also a director of Blair & Co., Ltd., a large investment banking company—often associated with the Boston investment bank of Lee, Higginson & Co.—which played a central role in financing the Dawes Plan for the reconstruction of Europe after World War I. [11] This relationship with Blair & Co. would place him in contact with the central players who devised the means of creating and financing a global one-world government.

Very Different Personages

Like Madeleine Albright, Catholic, John Kerry, discovered as an adult a hidden ancestry that showed his father's family had been Jewish shortly before emigrating from Europe to America. What more could be learned about this presidential candidate's grandfather, Frederick A. Kerry, formerly known as Fritz Kohn?

© 2004 by Linda Minor

"So you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."

    Benjamin Disraeli, in his novel, Coningsby,

    published in London (1844)

Fred Kerry

Frederick A. Kerry

 

Rosemary Isabel Forbes made an odd choice when she married Richard John Kerry, whose father, Frederick (Fred) A. Kerry, who shot and killed himself at the Copley Plaza Hotel in November 1921. 

Fred Kerry had been born in Bennisch, then part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, around 1873 to the Benedict Kohns (one source says Fred was "Fritz" Kohn, son of a Jewish brewer in what is now Horni Benesov, Czechoslovakia, and changed his name to Frederick Kerry in 1901 or 1902 and then converted to Catholicism). He was married to a college-educated musician, Ida Loewe from Hungary, and they had a four-year-old son, Eric Frederic Kerry, when they departed in 1905 from Genoa, Italy to live in Chicago. His business address there was 1744 First National Bank building, where he was extremely busy, judging from a somewhat comical news item that appeared in the Racine Daily Journal on October 11, 1909 under the headline, "Ran an Auto into North Side Saloon":