Background
Weld-Forester was a younger son of Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester, and Lady Katherine Mary Manners.
Weld-Forester was a younger son of Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester, and Lady Katherine Mary Manners.
He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated as Master of Arts in 1835.
Weld-Forester was Rector of Broseley, near his family estates at Willey Hall from 1841 to 1859, of Doveridge, Derbyshire 1859 to 1867, and of Gedling near Nottingham from 1867 until, following his succession to the peerage, 1887. He was also Prebendary of Hereford Cathedral (in whose diocese Broseley lay) from 1847 to 1868. In 1874 he became Residentiary Canon of York Minster and Chancellor of the Diocese of York, serving both offices until his death.
Lord Forester married, firstly, Sophia Elizabeth Norman, daughter of Richard Norman, in 1840.
He died at his cathedral duty house in York in June 1894, aged 81, and was buried in Shropshire at Willey parish church. Lady Forester died in 1898.