George Weld-Forester, 3rd Baron Forester
The Lord Forester | |
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Comptroller of the Household | |
In office 27 February 1852 – 17 December 1852 | |
Monarch | Victoria |
Prime Minister | The Earl of Derby |
Preceded by | The Earl of Mulgrave |
Succeeded by | Viscount Drumlanrig |
In office 26 February 1858 – 11 June 1859 | |
Monarch | Victoria |
Prime Minister | The Earl of Derby |
Preceded by | Viscount Castlerosse |
Succeeded by | Lord Proby |
Personal details | |
Born | 10 May 1807 |
Died | 14 February 1886 | (aged 78)
Nationality | British |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse(s) | Hon. Mary Anne Jervis (d. 1893) |
George Cecil Weld-Forester, 3rd Baron Forester PC (10 May 1807 – 14 February 1886), styled The Honourable George Weld-Forester between 1821 and 1874, was a British Conservative politician and army officer. He notably served as Comptroller of the Household in 1852 and from 1858 to 1859. A long-standing MP, he was the Father of the House of Commons from 1873 to 1874, when he succeeded his elder brother in the barony and took a seat in the House of Lords.
Early life
[edit]Weld-Forester, born at Sackville Street, London[1] was the second son of Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester, and Lady Katherine Mary Manners, daughter of Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland. His elder brother John Weld-Forester, 2nd Baron Forester, was also a Tory politician.[2] Both the brothers had, as godfather at the same christening, the Prince of Wales, later King George IV, a personal friend of their father.[3]
He was educated at Westminster School.[1]
Career
[edit]Weld-Forester entered the British Army on commission in 1824, he was a Captain of the Royal Horse Guards and was recorded residing at the Hyde Park Barracks the night of the 1841 census. He later 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 saw no campaign service.[1]
Political career
[edit]Weld-Forester succeeded his brother as Member of Parliament for Wenlock in 1828, a seat he would hold for 46 years.[2][4] He had been Groom of the Bedchamber to William IV from 1830 to 1831[1] and served in the first two Conservative administrations of the Earl of Derby as Comptroller of the Household between February[5] and December 1852[6] and from 1858[7] to 1859.[8] He was admitted to the Privy Council in 1852.[9] In 1873 he became Father of the House of Commons as the longest-serving member (then 45 years) of the House.[10] The following year he succeeded his elder brother as third Baron Forester and entered the House of Lords.[2] In 1878 he served as treasurer of the Salop Infirmary in Shrewsbury.[11]
Personal life
[edit]Lord Forester married the Honourable Mary Anne Jervis, daughter of Edward Jervis, 2nd Viscount St Vincent, and widow of David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre, in 1862. They had no children.[2]
Lord Forester died at 3 Carlton Gardens, London, in February 1886, aged 78, and was buried at Willey parish church.[1] He was succeeded in the barony by his younger brother, Reverend Orlando Weld-Forester. Lady Forester died in March 1893.[2] The Lady Foresters Convalescent Home in Llandudno was opened in Lord Forester's honour in 1902.[12][13]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e The Complete Peerage, Volume V. St Catherine's Press. 1926. p. 553.
- ^ a b c d e thepeerage.com General George Cecil Weld Forester, 3rd Baron Forester of Willey Park
- ^ "Death of Lord Forester". Eddowes's Shrewsbury Journal and Salopian Journal. 14 October 1874. p. 5.Obituary of the 2nd Baron.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 2)
- ^ "No. 21297". The London Gazette. 2 March 1852. p. 670.
- ^ "No. 21401". The London Gazette. 11 January 1853. p. 72.
- ^ "No. 22106". The London Gazette. 2 March 1858. p. 1207.
- ^ "No. 22280". The London Gazette. 28 June 1859. p. 2513.
- ^ "No. 21296". The London Gazette. 27 February 1852. p. 633.
- ^ "leighrayment.com Fathers of the House of Commons". Archived from the original on 26 September 2008. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Keeling-Roberts, Margaret (1981). In Retrospect, A Short History of the Royal Salop Infirmary. p. xiii. ISBN 0-9507849-0-7.
- ^ greatorme.org
- ^ Milverton, Charles. "Battling for the benefactress". Archived from the original on 19 October 2013.
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