FORESTER, William (1690-1758), of Dothill Park, Salop

Thirteen ForestersG. T. O. Bridgeman, ‘Some Account of the Family of Forester’, Trans. Shropshire Arch. Soc. (ser. 2), iii. 172; Namier, Structure, 235-298. sat for Wenlock between 1529 and 1885 (not counting relatives returned by them), and no Forester in the 18th century sat for any other constituency. Wenlock, without being a pocket borough, was identified with the Forester family, as they were with it; and they have continued to this day to supply mayors to the borough.

William Forester’s parliamentary career lies for the most part outside our period. He was a strong Whig: one of those ‘I have under my care’, wrote Lord Powis to the Duke of Newcastle in October 1754.Add. 32737, ff. 33-34. No vote or speech of Forester’s is recorded in the Parliament of 1754. He died 12 Nov. 1758.