Cecil Scott Forester

Background

Forester, Cecil Scott was born on August 27, 1899 in Cairo, Egypt. Son of George and Sarah (Troughton) Forester.

Education

Student Dulwich College, London, England., 1910-1916.

Career

Clubs: Athenaeum, Savage (London). Century (New York Author: Payment Deferred, 1925. Josephine, Napoleon’s Empress, 1925.

Love Lies Dreaming, 1927.

One Wonderful Week, 1927. Victor Emmanuel II, Daughter of the Hawk, 1928.

Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre, 1928. Voyage of the Annie Marble, 1929.

Lord Nelson, 1929; Two and Twenty, 1931.

Death to the French, 1932. The Gun, 1933; The African Queen, 1935. The General, 1936; Beat to Quarters, 1937.

Ship of the Lincolnshire, 1938.

Flying Colors, 1939; Captain Horatio Hornblower, 1939. To the Indies, 1940; The Captin from Connecticut, 1941.

The Ship, 1943. The Commodore, 1944. Lord Hornblower, 1946.

The Sky and the Forest, 1948.

Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, 1950. Randall and the River of Time, 1951.

Lieutenant Hornblower, 1952.

Hornblower and the Atropos, 1953. The Nightmare, 1954; The Good Shepherd, 1955. Age of Fighting Sail, 1956.

Admiral Hornblower and the West Indies, 1958.

The Last Nine Days of The Bismarck, 1959. Young Hornblower, 1960.

Hornblower and the Hotspur, 1962. The Indomitable Hornblower, 1963.

The Hornblower Companion, 1964.

Hornblower and the Crisis, 1967. Long Before Forty, 1967. Address: care Little, Brown & Company, 34 Beacon Saint, Boston.

Achievements

• Cecil Scott Forester has been listed as a notable author by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Clubs: Athenaeum, Savage (London).

Connections

Married Kathleen Belcher, 1926 (divorced). Married second, Dorothy Ellen Foster, 1947. Children: John, George.

Father:

George Forester

Mother:

Sarah (Troughton) Forester

Spouse:

Kathleen Belcher

Spouse:

Dorothy Ellen Foster

child:

John Forester

child:

George Forester