FORSTER, Frank. b. near Newcastle 1800; managed mines near Swansea, also in Lancs.; assistant of Robert Stephenson in his chief enterprises up to completion of Chester and Holyhead railway on which he was resident engineer of portion from near Conway to Holyhead; chief engineer to Metropolitan commission of sewers from its formation 1849 to 1852; M.I.C.E. 1845. d. Elm lodge, Kilburn, London 13 April 1852. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii, 157 (1853).
FORSTER, Sir George, 2 Baronet. b. Baronstown Glebe, co. Louth 21 March 1796; called to bar in Ireland 1830; succeeded 4 Dec. 1843; M.P. for co. Monaghan 1852–65. d. Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 4 April 1876.
FORSTER, Rev. Henry (youngest son of Thomas Forster of St. Michael’s, Oxford). Matric. from New coll. Ox. 17 Nov. 1827 aged 18; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1834; esquire bedel in divinity in Univ. of Ox., Feb. 1832 to death when the office expired. d. Oxford 25 April 1857.
FORSTER, John (eld. child of Robert Forster of Newcastle, cattle dealer, who d. 1836). b. Newcastle 2 April 1812; ed. at Newcastle gr. sch. and Univ. coll. London; student at I.T. 10 Nov. 1828, barrister 27 Jany. 1843; dramatic critic on the True Sun 1832; edited Foreign quarterly review 1842–3; edited Daily News 9 Feb. 1846 to Oct. 1846; edited Examiner 1847 to Dec. 1855; sec. to Lunacy commission 28 Dec. 1855 to Feb. 1861, comr. in Lunacy, Feb. 1861 to 1872; painted by Maclise as Kitely in Ben Jonson’s Every man in his humour; bequeathed his collection of pictures, books, &c. to South Kensington Museum; author of Lives of the statesmen of the Commonwealth 5 vols. 1836–9; The life and adventures of Oliver Goldsmith 1848, new ed. 2 vols. 1854; Life of Charles Dickens 3 vols. 1872–4 and many other books. d. Palace gate, Kensington 1 Feb. 1876. Catalogue of the Forster library (1888) i-xxii; Handbook of Forster and Dyce collections (1877) 1–21; Monthly Chronicle of north country lore, Feb. 1888 pp. 49–54; Madden’s Life of Countess of Blessington (1855) ii, 396–405; T. Powell’s Pictures of living authors (1851) 193–200; E. Yates’s Recollections (1884) ii, 161–3; G.M., n.s. xvi, 313–19 (1876); Temple Bar xlvi, 491–505 (1876); I.L.N. vii, 329 (1845), portrait; Graphic xiii, 179, 182, 188 (1876), portrait.
FORSTER, John. b. 1817; M.P. for Berwick 1853–57. d. 91 Victoria st. London 7 Jany. 1878.
FORSTER, John Cooper (son of Mr. Forster of Lambeth, surgeon). b. Mount st. Lambeth 13 Nov. 1823; ed. at King’s coll. sch. and Guy’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1844, F.R.C.S. 1849, pres. 1884–5; M.B. London 1847; demonstrator of anatomy at Guy’s 1850, assistant surgeon 1855, surgeon 1870–80; retired from practice 1885; the first to perform operation of gastrotomy in England 1858; author of The surgical diseases of children 1860, papers in Pathological and Clinical Society’s Transactions and reports of cases in Guy’s Hospital Reports. d. 29 Upper Grosvenor st. London 2 March 1886. Guy’s Hospital Reports vol. xiv, 40–57 (1887).
FORSTER, Thomas Bowes. Entered Madras army 1818; col. 9 Madras N.I. 13 April 1855 to 1869; L.G. 3 July 1867. d. Burder Titley, Herefordshire 21 March 1870.
FORSTER, Thomas Emerson. b. Garrigill Gate, Northumberland 1802; resident viewer at Walker colliery, Northumberland 1823; engineer at Newcastle 1846 to death; M.I.C.E. 16 Feb. 1836; pres. of north of England institute of mining engineers 1866–68. d. Ellison place, Newcastle 7 March 1875. Transactions of north of England institute of mining engineers, xxv, 5–10 (1876); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xliii, 300–303 (1876).
FORSTER, Thomas Ignatius Maria (eld. son of Thomas Furley Forster of Bishopsgate, London, Russia merchant 1761–1825). b. Bank of England, Threadneedle st. 9 Nov. 1789; studied at C.C. coll. Cam., M.B. 1818; left Cambridge for Edinburgh, Feb. 1816; discovered a comet 3 July 1819; joined Church of Rome about 1823; founded with Gompertz the Animals’ Friend Society 1833; F.L.S. 1811; F.R.A.S.; author of Observations on the brumal retreat of the swallow 1808, 5 ed. 1817; Researches about atmospheric phenomena 1813, 3 ed. 1823 and 44 other books. d. Brussels 2 Feb. 1860. Epistolarium Forsterianum 2 vols. Bruges 1845–50, privately printed; Recueil de ma vie, mes ouvrages, et mes pensées, opuscule philosophique, 3 ed. Brussels 1837.
FORSTER, William (son of Mr. Forster of Tottenham, land agent). b. Tottenham 23 March 1784; minister of Society of Friends 1805; resided at Bradpole, Dorset 1816, afterwards at Norwich; spent 5 years on a mission to United States 1820–25; investigated condition of people in Ireland, Nov. 1846 to April 1847; presented an anti-slavery address to president of United States 1 Oct. 1853; author of A Christian exhortation to sailors 1813; Recent intelligence from Van Diemen’s Land 1831; A Salutation of Christian love 1860. d. at house of Samuel Low near the Holston river, East Tennessee 27 Jany. 1854. Memoirs of life of W. Forster edited by B. Seebohm 2 vols. 1865; Brief memoir of W. Forster by R. Charlton 1867.