John George Weld Weld-Forester, 2nd Baron Forester
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The Right Honourable The Lord Forester PC |
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| Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms | |
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In office 8 September 1841 – 29 June 1846 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | Sir Robert Peel, Bt |
| Preceded by | The Lord Foley |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Foley |
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| Born | 9 August 1801 |
| Died | 10 October 1874 (aged 73) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Tory |
| Spouse(s) | Alexandrine, Countess von Maltzau, Dowager Viscountess Melbourne |
John George Weld Weld-Forester, 2nd Baron Forester PC (9 August 1801 – 10 October 1874), was a British Tory politician. He served as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms under Sir Robert Peel from 1841 to 1846.
Forester, born in Sackville Street, London, was the eldest son of Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester, and Lady Katherine Mary Manners, daughter of Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland. The Prince of Wales, later King George IV, a friend of his father, was godfather.,
Forester was elected to the House of Commons for Wenlock in 1826, a seat he held until 1828, when he succeeded his father as second Baron Forester and entered the House of Lords. In 1841 he was appointed Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms in the Tory administration of Sir Robert Peel, which he remained until the government fell in 1846. He was admitted to the Privy Council in 1841.
He was a friend of Benjamin Disraeli. Through Lord Forester's mother, another friend of Disraeli, Lord John Manners (later Duke of Rutland), a figure in Disraeli's Young England movement, was his own second cousin.
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