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FORESTER, PAUL, son of Matthew Forester, Wandsworth, Surrey; b.; adm.; QS 1707; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1711, matr. 9 Jun 1711, aged 18, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1711- void 1725; BA 1715; MA 1718; BD and DD 1745; ordained; Vicar of Wootton Bassett, Wilts., 1724; Canon of Christ Church from 20 Jun 1747; m. Mary, sister of John Perceval (in under school list 1715, qv); d. 17 Sep 1761. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

FORESTER, WILLIAM, son of Cecil Forester (qv); bapt. St. Chad, Shrewsbury 16 Dec 1770 (IGI); adm. 23 Jan 1782; probably the tyrant of Ottley’s, whose Latin verses Robert Southey (qv) had to write under stringent orders that they “must always be bad enough” (Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, 1849, i, 151); Ensign, 34th Foot 15 Dec 1790; Lieut., 12 Apr 1793; d. of yellow fever during the expedition to St. Domingo 8 Sep 1794.

Forman, Patrick William, son of William Sainsbury Forman of Southall, Middx; b. 17 Mar. 1905; adm. Jan. 1920 (G); left Mar. 1922; a farmer; m. 5 Oct. 1936 Alice, d. of John Ewart Thomas of Mill Hill; d. 22 July 1981.

Formilli, Geoffrey Cecil, son of Cesare Tito Giuseppe Formalli, of West Brompton, by Alice Eleanor, daughter of Morgan Morgans, of The Forest of Dean, Gloucs; b. Oct. 17, 1891; adm. Sept. 28, 1905 (A); left Dec. 1910; R.M.A. Woolwich; 2nd Lieut. R. A. July 19, 1912; went to France with the 112th Heavy Battery in Feb. 1915; Lieut. June 9, 1915; transferred in France to the R.A.F. in Dec. 1915; was shot down behind the German lines in Jan. 1916 and became a prisoner of war; Capt. July 18, 1917; mentioned in despatches L. G. Dec. 16, 1919; Capt. R. A. R. O. at the outbreak of Great War II; re-employed at the War Office; Lieut.-Col.; ceased to belong to R.A.R.O. on account of ill-health Feb. 18, 1944; m. Sept. 4, 1934, Celia, only daughter of Sir William Athelstane Meredith Goode, K.B.E., of Paddington; d. Oct. 7, 1945.

Formilli, Leo Gerald Vivian, brother of Geoffrey Cecil Formilli (q.v.); b. March 9, 1893; adm. Sept. 24, 1908 (A); left Dec. 1909; 2nd Lieut. R.G.A. Oct. 3, 1915; Lieut. July 1, 1917; employed under the Ministry of Munitions during Great War I.

FORREST, ---; b.; adm.; a pensioner in 1565 (tutor, Prebendary Wiborne).

FORREST, ROBERT WILLIAM, eldest son of Very Rev. Robert William Forrest DD, Dean of Worcester, and his first wife; b. 20 Feb 1863; adm. (G) 27 May 1875; left Dec 1878; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 7 Dec 1882; BA 1886; d. at Port Orotaya, Tenerife 22 Mar 1887.