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George Weld-Forester, 3rd Baron Forester

British Conservative politician and army officer (1807–1886)

Summary

British Conservative politician and army officer (1807–1886)

Field	Value
honorific_prefix	General The Right Honourable
name	The Lord Forester
honorific_suffix
image	George Weld-Forester, Vanity Fair, 1875-10-16.jpg
caption	Caricature of Lord Forester by "Ape" (Carlo Pellegrini) published in Vanity Fair in 1875
order1	Comptroller of the Household
term_start1	27 February 1852
term_end1	17 December 1852
monarch1	Victoria
primeminister1	The Earl of Derby
predecessor1	The Earl of Mulgrave
successor1	Viscount Drumlanrig
term_start2	26 February 1858
term_end2	11 June 1859
monarch2	Victoria
primeminister2	The Earl of Derby
predecessor2	Viscount Castlerosse
successor2	Lord Proby
birth_date
death_date
nationality	British
party	Conservative
spouse	Hon. Mary Anne Jervis
(d. 1893)

(d. 1893)

George Cecil Weld-Forester, 3rd Baron Forester, PC (10 May 1807 – 14 February 1886), styled The Honourable George Weld-Forester between 1821 and 1874, was a British Conservative politician and army officer. He notably served as Comptroller of the Household in 1852 and from 1858 to 1859. A long-standing MP, he was the Father of the House of Commons from 1873 to 1874, when he succeeded his elder brother in the barony and took a seat in the House of Lords.

Early life

Weld-Forester, born at Sackville Street, London was the second son of Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester, and Lady Katherine Mary Manners, daughter of Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland. His elder brother John Weld-Forester, 2nd Baron Forester, was also a Tory politician Both the brothers had, as godfather at the same christening, the Prince of Wales, later King George IV, a personal friend of their father.

He was educated at Westminster School.

Career

Weld-Forester entered the British Army on commission in 1824, he was a Captain of the Royal Horse Guards and was recorded residing at the Hyde Park Barracks the night of the 1841 census. He later became Lieutenant-Colonel of the Royal Horse Guards in 1853. He was promoted to staff rank as Major-General in 1863 and Lieutenant-General in 1871, retiring, aged seventy, as full General in 1877 but saw no campaign service.

Political career

Weld-Forester succeeded his brother as member of parliament for Wenlock in 1828, a seat he would hold for 46 years. He had been Groom of the Bedchamber to William IV from 1830 to 1831 and December 1852 and from 1858 to 1859. He was admitted to the Privy Council in 1852. In 1873 he became Father of the House of Commons as the longest-serving member (then 45 years) of the House. The following year he succeeded his elder brother as third Baron Forester and entered the House of Lords. In 1878 he served as treasurer of the Salop Infirmary in Shrewsbury.

Personal life

Portrait of Mary Anne Jervis, Lady Forester, ''after'' James Godsell Middleton, 1834

Lord Forester married the Honourable Mary Anne Jervis, daughter of Edward Jervis, 2nd Viscount St Vincent, and widow of David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre, in 1862. They had no children.

Lord Forester died at 3 Carlton Gardens, London, in February 1886, aged 78, and was buried at Willey parish church. He was succeeded in the barony by his younger brother, Reverend Orlando Weld-Forester. Lady Forester died in March 1893.

The Lady Foresters Convalescent Home in Llandudno was opened in Lord Forester's honour in 1902.

References

(1926). "The Complete Peerage, Volume V". St Catherine's Press.
(14 October 1874). "Death of Lord Forester". Eddowes's Shrewsbury Journal and Salopian Journal.
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"leighrayment.com Fathers of the House of Commons".
Keeling-Roberts, Margaret. (1981). "In Retrospect, A Short History of the Royal Salop Infirmary".
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Milverton, Charles. "Battling for the benefactress".

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