Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester

Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester (baptised 7 April 1767 – 23 May 1828) was a Tory British Member of Parliament and later peer.

Born Cecil Forester and baptised at St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury, he assumed the additional surname of Weld by Royal licence in 1811, upon inheriting Willey Park from his cousin George Forester. He was elected to the House of Commons for Wenlock in 1790, a seat he held until 1820. The latter year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Forester, of Willey Park in the County of Shropshire.

Lord Forester married Lady Katherine Mary Manners, daughter of Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland, in 1800. He died of gout at Belgrave Square, London in 1828, aged 61, and was buried at Willey parish church. He was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son John George Weld-Forester. Lady Forester died in 1829. His descendants would later be in the British line of succession to the throne through his descendant Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester and Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, the wife of his great-grandson, Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood.

References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Sir Henry Bridgeman George Forester	Member of Parliament for Wenlock 1790–1800 With: Sir Henry Bridgeman 1790–1794 John Simpson 1794–1800	Succeeded by Parliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Parliament of Great Britain	Member of Parliament for Wenlock 1801–1820 With: John Simpson	Succeeded by Francis Forester William Lacon Childe
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baron Forester 1820-1828	Succeeded by John George Weld-Forester