William Forster (philanthropist)

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William Forster (1784-1854) was an English Quaker preacher and philanthropist, born at Tottenham. He became a preacher in the Society of Friends, labored in the United States, England, and France, and in 1846 went to Ireland to relieve the stress caused there by famine. In 1849 he was commissioned by the Quaker Yearly Meeting in London to present an address on slavery and the slave trade to rulers of the Christian nations, and within the next few years he had interviews with nearly all the monarchs of Europe, with the President of the United States, and with the governors of a number of the Southern States.

[edit] Literature

• Seebohm (editor), Memoirs of the Life of William Forster (two volumes, London, 1865)

• This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.