Education
He entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1673 and graduated as Master of Arts in 1675.
He entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1673 and graduated as Master of Arts in 1675.
He was a Whig Member in the Parliaments of England and of Great Britain. In 1683 he was almost implicated in the Rye House Plot against Charles II, when a search revealed 50 muskets and pike heads were found hidden in an oven, and a large quantity of gunpowder buried on his estate. He paid off a heavy fine, allegedly helped by selling off valuable timber grown on the Wrekin.
He was knighted in the Order of the Bath in 1689.
In May 1695, he fought a duel against fellow Member of Parliament, Colonel Beaumont (who disarmed Forester), over accusations made in the House of Commons. In August 1703 he was one of the commissioners sent by Queen Anne to receive the Archduke Charles of Austria at The Hague.
Forester died in 1718 aged 62 and was buried at Wellington.
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He was Member of Parliament for the borough constituency of Wenlock from 1679 until 1715 (except 1685–1688) and held a sinecure as Clerk of the Green Cloth.