John Forster (died March 1748) was an administrator of the

English East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southe ...

. He served as governor of Fort William in

Bengal Bengal ( ; bn, বাংলা/বঙ্গ, translit=Bānglā/Bôngô, ) is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal, predom ...

in the eighteenth century. His daughter John Anna Forster (died 4 June 1774) married

Sir Harry Goring, 6th Baronet Sir Harry Goring, 6th baronet (1739-1824), of Highden, near Washington, Sussex, was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of Great Britain The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in May 1707 following the ratif ...

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