Baron Forester

Baron Forester, of Willey Park in the County of Shropshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1821 for Cecil Weld-Forester, who had previously represented Wenlock in the House of Commons. Born Cecil Forester, he assumed the additional surname of Weld by Royal license in 1811. His son, the second Baron, also represented Wenlock in Parliament and later served in the Tory administration of Sir Robert Peel as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords) from 1841 to 1846. He was succeeded by his younger brother, the third Baron. He sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Wenlock for 46 years and was Father of the House of Commons from 1873 to 1874. His nephew, the fifth Baron, also represented Wenlock in Parliament as a Conservative. Both his son, the sixth Baron, and grandson, the seventh Baron, served as Mayor of Wenlock. As of 2006 the title is held by the latter’s grandson, the ninth Baron, who succeeded his father in 2004.

[edit] Barons Forester (1821)

Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester (1767-1828)
John George Weld Weld-Forester, 2nd Baron Forester (1801-1874)
George Cecil Weld Weld-Forester, 3rd Baron Forester (1807-1886)
Orlando Watkin Weld Weld-Forester, 4th Baron Forester (1813-1894)
Cecil Theodore Weld-Forester, 5th Baron Forester (1842-1917)
George Cecil Beaumont Weld-Forester, 6th Baron Forester (1867-1932)
Cecil George Wilfred Weld-Forester, 7th Baron Forester (1899-1977)
George Cecil Brooke Weld-Forester, 8th Baron Forester (1938-2004)
Charles Richard George Weld-Forester, 9th Baron Forester (b. 1975)

The heir presumptive to the barony is Wolstan William Weld-Forester (b. 1941) (a great-grandson of the fifth baron)