FORSTER, GEORGE EDWARD, son of Robert Forster, Southwell, Notts.; b. 30 Apr 1837; adm. (G) 6 Jun 1849; Min. Can. 1852; of Uppingham; d. 3 Aug 1878. [Perhaps George Edward Forster, adm. solicitor Easter 1859, in practice at 2 Harcourt Buildings, Temple, London EC, in 1861]

FORSTER, JOHN, son of Francis Forster, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, Mayor of Newcastle, and Eleanor, dau. of Robert Greave, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; b.; adm. 13 Sep 1779; KS (aged 13) 1781; Capt. of the School 1785; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1786, adm. pens. 14 Jun 1786, scholar 19 Apr 1787, matr. Mich. 1786; BA 1790; MA 1795; ordained deacon (Durham) Mich. 1791; Curate, Mitford, Northumberland 1791; Rector of Little Sandall, Yorks., 23 Dec 1803; Rector of Ryther, Yorks., from 9 Nov 1805; m. 24 May 1803 (IGI) Ann, dau. of Henry Latton (qv); d. 4 Oct 1846.

FORSTER, RALPH GEORGE ELLIOTT, eldest son of Ralph William Elliott Forster, Gloucester Street, Belgrave Road, London, and of Lincoln’s Inn, barrister, and Frances Joanna, dau. of Rev. William Henry Stone, Canon of Canterbury; b. 4 Jul 1865; adm. (H) 21 Jun 1878; left Dec 1882; entered Foreign Office; student interpreter, Japan 16 Feb 1886; second assistant, 30 Jan 1889, first assistant 8 Aug 1896; acting Consul at various places in Japan 1895-1909; Consul at Honolulu 17 Nov 1909-12, Nagasaki 20 Jul 1912-4; Consul General at Kobe 22 Jan 1914 - Jan 1926; CMG 24 Dec 1923; m. 1 Nov 1897 Louise, eldest dau. of Louis Joubert, Mansourah, Egypt; d. 4 Dec 1931.

FORSTER, RICHARD; b.; adm.; KS 1665; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1667, adm. pens. 29 Jun 1667, scholar 1668, matr. 1667. [Perhaps Richard Forster, son of Thomas Forster, Westminster, adm. Middle Temple 19 Jan 1670/1]

FORTESCUE-BRICKDALE, SIR CHARLES, eldest son of Matthew Inglett Fortescue-Brickdale (qv); b. 1 Mar 1857; adm. 16 Jun 1870 (James'); QS 1871; one of the founders of The Elizabethan in 1874, designing its original headpiece, and also an illuminated school prayer book, which he presented “curae monitorum” (Elizabethan, I, 63, and xvii, 192); left (with Triplett) Whitsun 1875; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 20 May 1875; BA 1879; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 2 May 1877, called to bar 17 Nov 1883; Assistant barrister, Land Registry Office 1888, Assistant Registrar 1894, Registrar and Chief Registrar 1900-23; knighted 1 Jan 1911; JP Gloucestershire; a Busby Trustee from 16 May 1916; author, various publications on transfer of land; m. 5 Sep 1888 Mabel Beatrice, eldest dau. of George Louis Monck Gibbs, Bramley, Surrey; d. 20 Sep 1944.

FORTESCUE-BRICKDALE, JOHN FORTESCUE, eldest son of John Brickdale (qv); b. 17 Feb 1788; adm.; KS 1801; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1805, matr. 25 May 1805, Westminster Student; BA 1809; MA 1811; adm. Middle Temple 2 May 1811, called to bar 5 Jun 1818; Western circuit; assumed surname of Fortescue before that of Brickdale 9 Feb 1861; of Birchamp House, Newland, Gloucs.; JP Devon, Gloucestershire, Monmouthshire, Somerset; m. 7 Jul 1813 Catherine, dau. of George Gregorie; d. 28 Mar 1867.

FORTESCUE-BRICKDALE, MATTHEW INGLETT, eldest son of John Fortescue Fortescue-Brickdale (qv); b. 15 Apr 1817; adm. (G) 28 Jun 1830; KS 1831; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1835, matr. 4 Jun 1835, Westminster Student; BA 1839; MA 1841; adm. Middle Temple 27 Oct 1841, called to bar 22 Nov 1844; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 13 Jan 1845; Secretary, Statute Law Commission 1853; a Conveyancing Counsel to Court of Chancery from Apr 1861; m. 25 Mar 1856 Sarah Anna, dau. of Edward John Lloyd QC, Judge of the Bristol County Court; d. 24 May 1894, from the effects of a fall over a precipice near Biasca, Ticino, Switzerland.

FORTH, PHILIP; b.; adm.; KS 1671; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 31 Jul 1672, scholar 1676, matr. 1675; first in “ordo” 1676/7; BA 1676/7; MA 1680.

FORTH, WILLIAM, son of William Forth, Nayland, Suffolk, and Mary, dau. of Richard Barker, Nayland, Suffolk; b.; adm.; KS 1630; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1632, adm. scholar 1633, matr. Easter 1632; migrated to Trinity Hall, adm. scholar 1635; LLB 1638; LLD 1646; Fellow, Trinity Hall, 10 Aug 1639-49; adm. advocate, Doctors’ Commons 29 Jan 1646/7; a Commissioner of Excise; of St. Giles in the Fields, London; m.; buried Highgate, Middlesex 27 May 1671.