William Brownlow Forde (1823 - 8 February 1902) was the
Member of Parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...
for
County Down
County Down () is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. It covers an area of and has a population of 531,665. It borders County Antrim to the ...
, 1857–1874.
Colonel the Rt. Hon. William Brownlow Forde, PC, JP, DL, of
Seaforde
Seaforde is a small village in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is within the townland of Naghan,Burrenwood, in 1855, and was High Sheriff of County Down, 1853; Lieutenant-Colonel, the Royal South Down Militia; Colonel, 1854–1881, 5th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. He was also a member of the
landed gentry
The landed gentry, or the ''gentry'', is a largely historical British social class of landowners who could live entirely from rental income, or at least had a country estate. While distinct from, and socially below, the British peerage, th ...
.Burke's Landed Gentry, 5th edition (1871) Volume I, P 454