Reverend Orlando Watkin Weld Weld-Forester, 4th Baron Forester (18 April 1813 – 22 June 1894), known until 1886 as the Honourable Orlando Weld-Forester, was a British peer and

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clergyman.

Family background and education

Weld-Forester was a younger son of

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, and Lady Katherine Mary Manners. His elder brothers

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, and

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, were both

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government ministers. He was educated at

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and

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, where he graduated as MA in 1835.

Clergy career

Weld-Forester was Rector of

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, near his family estates at Willey Hall from 1841 to 1859, of

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, Derbyshire 1859 to 1867, and of

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near

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from 1867 until, following his succession to the peerage, 1887. He was also Prebendary of

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(in whose diocese Broseley lay) from 1847 to 1868. In 1874 he became Residentiary Canon of

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and Chancellor of the

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, serving both offices until his death.

Marriages and later life

Lord Forester married, firstly, Sophia Elizabeth Norman, daughter of Richard Norman, in 1840. After his first wife's death in 1872 he married, secondly, Emma Maria Tollemache, daughter of William Tollemache, in 1875. In 1886, at the age of 72, he succeeded his elder brother as fourth Baron Forester. He died at his cathedral duty house in

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in June 1894, aged 81, and was buried in Shropshire at Willey parish church. He was succeeded in the barony by his son from his first marriage,

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. Lady Forester died in 1898.

References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. *
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