Constituency Dates
Wenlock 1715 – 1722, 1734 – 1741, 1754 – 12 Nov. 1758
Family and Education
b. 1690, 1st s. of Sir William Forester, K.B., M.P., of Dothill by Lady Margaret Cecil, da. of James, 3rd Earl of Salisbury. m. 1714, Catherine, da. and h. of William Brooke of Clerkenwell, 3s. 3da. suc. fa. Feb. 1718.
Address
Main residence: Dothill Park, Salop.
biography text

Thirteen Foresters1G. 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 1754.2Add. 32737, ff. 33-34. No vote or speech of Forester’s is recorded in the Parliament of 1754. He died 12 Nov. 1758.

Author
L.B.N.
Volume
Commons 1754-1790
Notes
  • 1. G. T. O. Bridgeman, ‘Some Account of the Family of Forester’, Trans. Shropshire Arch. Soc. (ser. 2), iii. 172; Namier, Structure, 235-298.
  • 2. Add. 32737, ff. 33-34.