Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Forester, born in Sackville Street, London, was the eldest son of Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester, and Lady Katherine Mary Manners, daughter of Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland. The Prince of Wales, later King George IV, a friend of his father, was godfather.,
Forester was elected to the House of Commons for Wenlock in 1826, a seat he held until 1828, when he succeeded his father as second Baron Forester and entered the House of Lords.
He served as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms under Sir Robert Peel from 1841 to 1846. In 1841 he was appointed Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms in the Tory administration of Sir Robert Peel, which he remained until the government fell in 1846. He was admitted to the Privy Council in 1841.
Lord Forester secured Disraeli"s nomination as Tory parliamentary candidate for Shrewsbury for the 1841 General Election.
Disraeli was subsequently returned as Member of Parliament, despite bitter opposition at the election, and held the seat until the 1847 General Election, when he contested and was subsequently elected for Buckinghamshire. Later in life Disraeli, then a widower, had a simultaneous correspondence with two of Forester"s sisters, the then-married Selina, Countess of Bradford and widowed Anne Elizabeth, Countess of Chesterfield.
A collection of over 1,100 letters he wrote to the former between 1875 and his death in 1881, during most of which period he was Prime Minister, are preserved at Weston Park, Staffordshire. Lord Forester was for 27 years Master of Fox Hounds of the Belvoir Hunt in Leicestershire, of which the Duke of Rutland"s family were also members.
8th United Kingdom Parliament.
