Background
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.
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.
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He notably served as Comptroller of the Household in 1852 and from 1858 to 1859. He was educated at Westminster School. Weld-Forester entered the British Army on commission in 1824, and 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 he saw no campaign service.
He had been Groom of the Bedchamber to William IV from 1830 to 1831 and served in the first two Conservative administrations of the Earl of Derby as Comptroller of the Household between February and December 1852 and from 1858 to 1859. He was admitted to the Privy Council in 1852.
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