George Forrest

Sir George William David Stark Forrest (1845–1926) was a British official, journalist and historian, in India from 1872 to 1900.

Life He was the second son of George Forrest VC, born at Nasirabad, Ajmer. He matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge in 1866, graduating B.A. in 1870. He entered the Inner Temple in 1872, but was not called to the bar. He began to write for periodicals including the Saturday Review. As a journalist, he was known for work published in The Times, particularly a scoop in 1880 with the Battle of Maiwand. Sepoy Generals (1901) Cities of India Past and Present (1903) History of the Indian Mutiny (1904–1912, 3 vols.), a documentary history. Rudrangshu Mukherjee, writing in 2008, stated that "Much of what we write and say today about 1857 is possible because of the work of [Surendra Nath Sen, Ramesh Chundra Majumdar and S B Chaudhuri] and of the great narratives produced in the second half of the 19th century and early 20th century by Charles Ball, John Kaye, G W Forrest and others." Selections from the Travels and Journals Preserved in the Bombay Secretariat (1906) Life of Field-Marshal Sir Neville Chamberlain, G.C.B., G.C.S.I. (1909), on Neville Bowles Chamberlain. Selections from the State Papers of the Governors-General of India: Warren Hastings (2 vols., 1910) Life of Lord Roberts (1914) The Life of Lord Clive (2 vols., 1918) Selections from the State Papers of the Governors-General of India: Lord Cornwallis (2 vols., 1926)

Other works were:

The Famine in India (1897), pamphlet Articles on the deforestation of India in the Bombay Gazette.

Family In 1877 Forrest married Emma Georgina Viner, daughter of Thomas Viner of Crawley, Sussex. They had a son and a daughter.