Career
Knighted at Street James"s Palace 13 July 1939 Forster was appointed President of the Industrial Court in 1946. The following year he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire). In 1959 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Forster of Harraby, of Beckenham in the County of Kent.
Lord Forster of Harraby died in July 1972, aged 83, when the barony became extinct.