Sir Humphrey Forster, 2nd Baronet (c. 1649 – December 1711) was an English politician who sat in the

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at various times between 1677 and 1695. Forster was the son of William Forster of Aldermaston House and his wife Elizabeth Tyrell, daughter of Sir John Tyrell of Heron, Essex. He was grandson of Sir Humphrey Forster, 1st Baronet (of

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). He succeeded to this Baronetcy and the Aldermaston manor and leased rectory on the death of his grandfather in 1663, his father having died in 1661.George Edward Cokayne ''Complete Baronetage'', Volume 1 1900
/ref> In 1677, Forster was elected

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for Berkshire in a by-election to the

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. He was re-elected MP for Berkshire in the first election of 1679 but not in the second. He was elected MP for Berkshire again in 1685. and then in 1690 and 1695. He was

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in 1704History of Parliament Online- Forster, Sir Humphrey
/ref> and knighted around the same time. Forster died at the age of about 62, when the Baronetcy became extinct and is buried in the church of St Aidan with his distant ancestors who received the earlier Forster baronetcy in

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, Northumberland and who held

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for two centuries until the

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Sir Humphrey Forster, 1st Bt.

Humphrey Forster (c.1595-1663), son of Sir William Forster (died 1618), K.B., of Aldermaston and Sheriff of Berks, 1607. He married, circa 1616, Anne, daughter of Sir William Kingsmill, of Sydmonton, Hampshire.

, 1619-1620, and created baronet, 20 May 1620.

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and a compounder for £1,000. In 1649 his sister Mary (died 1668) married as her third or fourth husband the celebrated

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Other Forster ancestors

*Sir Humphrey Forster (died 1500), of Harpenden = Alice, daughter of Sir Stephen Popham (MP for Hampshire: 1420, 1423,1425, 1431, 1442); *Sir George Forster , K.B. (died 1533) = Elizabeth (died 1526) daughter and heir of John Delamere (De la Mare), of Aldermaston; *Sir Humphrey Forster , Kt (died 1555). Sheriff of Berks, 1532 and 1545 = Elizabeth, daughter of William, Lord Sandys, of

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; *William Forster (died 1574). Sheriff of Berkshire, 1567 = Jane, daughter of Sir Anthony Hungerford, Kt of Down Ampney; *Sir Humphrey Forster , Kt. (died 1601). Sheriff of Berks, 1579 and 1592 = Margaret, daughter of John Barrett of

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(kinsman of Lord Barrett of Newburgh); *Sir William Forster, Kt. (died 1618) = Mary (died 1661), daughter of Sir Mark Steward (Stewart) of Stuntney, the Isle of Ely (died 1604), by Anna, daughter of Robert Huicke, physician to Queen Elizabeth. Sometime MP, he was in the service of Sir

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Aldermaston legacy

His largest estate left the related Achard-Forster families in whose hands it had been since a 12th-century grant by Henry I of England in 1762, when it passed into a family due to a marriage, the Congreve family of the

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, Congreve,

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, Staffordshire. The estate had to be sold on a bankruptcy (following fire) and has been more than halved with a rebuilt

in Elizabethan style. Forster married at St. Margaret's, Westminster on 26 November 1672, Judith, daughter of Sir Humphrey Winch, 1st Baronet and his wife Rebecca Browne, daughter of Martin Browne, Alderman of London. Early in the 17th century the family funded a vestry south of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Aldermaston and their own memorial vault beneath this. Four polished marble slabs in the floor commemorate: *Humphrey's daughter, Rebekah, d. age 12 in 1676. *Ann, daughter of William Forster, d. in infancy in 1664. *John Forster, d. 1674 *Humphrey's mother, Lady Anne Forster, d. 1673. On the south wall of the chancel are two stone slabs and lengthy family tablet from the vault entry, transcribed into the county history of 1923.'Parishes: Aldermaston'
in A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3, ed. P H Ditchfield and William Page (London, 1923), pp. 386-395. Accessed 10 December 2014

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Forster, Humphrey 1649 births 1711 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of England Members of the Parliament of England for Berkshire English MPs 1661–1679 English MPs 1679 English MPs 1685–1687 English MPs 1690–1695 English MPs 1695–1698 People from Aldermaston High Sheriffs of Berkshire