About Francis Forester
Lived 1774 – 1861 (aged 87). Francis Forester was a British politician.
Major Francis Forester (19 August 1774 – 21 October 1861) was a Tory British Member of Parliament.
Early life Forester was born on 19 August 1774, just three days before his father died. He was the fifth and youngest son of Anne ( Townshend) Forester and Lt-Col. Cecil Forester, MP for Wenlock. His elder brother, Cecil, a personal friend of King George IV, assumed the additional surname of Weld by Royal Licence in 1811, upon inheriting Willey Park from their cousin George Forester.
His paternal grandparents were William Forester, also MP for Wenlock (and son of Sir William Forester and Lady Mary Cecil, a daughter of the 3rd Earl of Salisbury), and the former Catherine Brooke. His maternal grandfather was Robert Townshend.
William Forester (1816–1816), who died young. William Henry Forester (1819–1891), who married Hon. Eleanor Fraser, daughter of Hon. William Fraser (a son of the 16th Lord Saltoun), in 1858. He left his entire estate to his only surviving son William.
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British Member of Parliament (1774-1861)
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Francis Forester was born on 19 August 1774.
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Francis Forester died on 22 October 1861.
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Francis Forester was a politician.
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