Cecil Theodore Weld-Forester, 5th Baron Forester (3 August 1842 – 20 November 1917), was a British peer and

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Member of Parliament, styled The Honourable from 1886 to 1894. Forester was the son of Reverend Orlando Weld-Forester, 4th Baron Forester, and Sophia Elizabeth Norman. He was educated at

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and

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. He served as a young man as Lieutenant in the

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. He was elected to the

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for Wenlock in 1874 (succeeding his uncle George Weld-Forester), a seat he held until 1885 when the constituency was abolished. In 1894 he succeeded his father as fifth Baron Forester and entered the

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. He also served in local government, as a member of

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, and was twice Mayor of the Borough of Wenlock. He was a DL and JP for the county of Shropshire, and JP for

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. In 1876, he served as President of the

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and in 1902 as Treasurer of the Salop Infirmary in

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. Lord Forester married Emma Georgina Dixie, daughter of Sir Willoughby Wolstan Dixie, 8th Baronet, in 1866. He died at

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, in November 1917, aged 75, and was buried at

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. Lady Forester died in 1922. He was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son

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. His third son,

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, married, as his second wife, Grace Peel, granddaughter of Whig prime minister John Russell. His sixth son,

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, married Lady Victoria Wynn-Carington, daughter of

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References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, * {{DEFAULTSORT:Forester, Cecil Weld-Forester, 5th Baron 1842 births 1917 deaths Cecil Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Weld-Forester, Cecil Weld-Forester, Cecil Weld-Forester, Cecil Mayors of places in Shropshire Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge People educated at Harrow School Royal Horse Guards officers