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Charles Forster (theologian)
Charles Forster may refer to: * Sir Charles Forster, 1st Baronet (1815–1891), English Liberal politician * Charles Smith Forster (1786–1850), English banker and Conservative politician * Charles French Blake-Forster Charles French Blake-Forster (1851–1874) was an Irish writer. Born at Forster Street House, Galway City, the eldest son of Captain Francis Blake-Forster of the Connaught Rangers, educated at home and later in England. Began to play a prominent ... (1851–1874), Irish writer * Charles Farrar Forster (1848–1894), British vicar See also * Charles Foster (other) {{hndis, Forster, Charles ...
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Sir Charles Forster, 1st Baronet
Sir Charles Forster, 1st Baronet (3 August 1815 – 26 July 1891) was an English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1852 to 1891. Biography Forster was born at Worcester, the only son of Charles Smith Forster of Lysways Hall, Rugeley, and his wife Elizabeth Emery. His father was a banker of Walsall and had been Member of Parliament for Walsall and High Sheriff of Staffordshire. Forster was educated at Worcester College, Oxford and called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1843. He was a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Staffordshire. Forster stood unsuccessfully for Walsall in 1847, but in 1852, he was returned unopposed as MP for Walsall. He lived at Lysways Hall, Staffordshire, and was created a baronet, of Lysways Hall, in March 1874. He remained member for Walsall until his death at the age of 75, in 1891. He made 210 contributions in the House of Commons. Forster supported women's suffrage Women's suffrage is the right of women ...
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Charles Smith Forster
Charles Smith Forster (1786 – 17 November 1850) was an English banker and Conservative politician who represented Walsall in the 19th century. Forster was born at Walsall, the son of Charles Forster and his wife Hannah Westley. He became a banker and Mayor of Walsall, before being elected the first MP for Walsall in the reformed parliament of 1832. In 1845 he was High Sheriff of Staffordshire This is a list of the sheriffs and high sheriffs of Staffordshire. The sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. The sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilities ass .... Forster married Elizabeth Emery in 1813. His son Charles was also Member of Parliament for Walsall and became a baronet, of Lysways Hall''Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland'' (1862) p. 499 References External links * 1786 births 1850 deaths People from Wal ...
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Charles French Blake-Forster
Charles French Blake-Forster (1851–1874) was an Irish writer. Born at Forster Street House, Galway City, the eldest son of Captain Francis Blake-Forster of the Connaught Rangers, educated at home and later in England. Began to play a prominent part in Galway's public affairs upon his return in his late teens. He became a town councillor, a member of the local Board of Guardians, and in 1874 High Sheriff of Galway Town. He presided in this capacity at three Parliamently elections in 1874. He died aged 23 on 9 September 1874, and was laid to rest in the family vault at Bushypark, on the Galway-Oughterard road. He had a deep and abiding interest in the history of the county. He contributed a number of articles on this subject to the '' Galway Vindicator'' and '' Galway Express'' between 1869 and 1871. His only full-length published work, '' The Irish Chieftains, or, a struggle for the Crown'', was published in 1872 by McGlashran & Gill. It was an account of the Williamite War in I ...
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Charles Farrar Forster
Charles Farrar Forster (29 February 1848 – 28 August 1894) was curate of the parish of Lockwood near Huddersfield, vicar of St Andrew's Church in Huddersfield, and the first vicar of the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Beckwithshaw.''Huddersfield Chronicle'', 18 September 1894: The late Rev. C.F. Forster In spite of suffering severe pain due to heart disease during his working years, he was known for his dedication to parochial work and for the large congregations who came to hear his sermons. For all his bodily fragility he was notable for his personal charisma, causing various newspapers to remark upon the numerous friends among his past and recent parishioners and among his fellow clergymen who formed part of his life and who attended his funeral and memorial services. Life Ancestors Charles' paternal grandfather Daniel Forster, an inspector of weights, was born in Otley, West Yorkshire in 1776, and died in 1844.United Kingdom Census 1841: Daniel Forster was aged 65 ...
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