Cecil Forester

Lt-Col. Cecil Forester ( – 22 August 1774) was a British soldier and Member of Parliament.

Early life Forester was born in as the second son of William Forester of Dothill in Wellington, Shropshire (now Telford) and Catherine Brooke, daughter and heiress of William Brooke of Clerkenwell. His sister, Mary Forester, was the wife of Sir Brian Broughton-Delves, 4th Baronet and Humphrey Mackworth Praed, MP for St Ives.

His paternal grandparents were Sir William Forester and Lady Mary Cecil (a daughter of the 3rd Earl of Salisbury). His aunt, Mary Forester, married Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet.

He was educated at Westminster School.

Personal life Forester married Anne Townshend (d. 1825), daughter and coheiress of Robert Townshend of Christleton, Cheshire.

Cecil Forester (1767–1828), later Weld-Forester who was created Baron Forester, also an MP for Wenlock who married Lady Katherine Mary Manners, daughter of Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland, and Lady Mary Isabella Somerset, in 1800. George Towshend Forester (1768–1845), later Townshend-Forester, the Recorder of Wenlock who married Ann Jones, daughter of J. Jones.

Forester died on 22 August 1774. Hon. Henrietta Weld-Forester (wife of Albert Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough),