Lord Thomas FORSTER, MP^[1]

Abt 1448 - 1526  (~ 78 years)

• Name	Thomas FORSTER
  Prefix	Lord
  Suffix	MP
  Born	Abt 1448	Castle Etherstone, Durham, England
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Tory for Northumberland
  Descendant Interest	A person of middle stature, inclining to be fat, well shaped except that he has stoops in the shoulders, fair complexioned, his mouth wide, his nose pretty large, his eyes grey, speaks the northern dialect.
  Died	3 Mar 1526	Castle Etherstone, Durham, England
  Buried	St Aidan’s, Bamburgh, Durham, England
  Person ID	I39903	Main
  Last Modified	28 Oct 2023

  
  

  Father	Sir Thomas FORSTER,   b. Abt 1424, Etherstone, Durham, England ,   d. 1512, Etherstone, Durham, England  (Age ~ 88 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth FEATHERSTONHAUGH,   b. Abt 1430, Stanhope Hall, England ,   d. 1512, County Durham, England  (Age ~ 82 years)
  Family ID	F28424	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jane Ann HILTON,   b. Abt 1460, Hilton Castle, Durham, England ,   d. 1510, Hartfordshire, England  (Age ~ 50 years)
  Children	+ 1. Sir Thomas FORSTER,   b. 1474, Etherston, Northumberland, England ,   d. 4 Mar 1526, Bamburg, Northumberland, England  (Age 52 years)
  Last Modified	10 May 2016
  Family ID	F28425	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Never married. —— Forster was returned as Tory Member of Parliament (MP) for Northumberland at the 1708 British general election. In 1709 he and his aunt, sold the indebted estates to his aunt's husband, Bishop Crewe, and were left with very little of the proceeds. In 1710 he voted against the impeachment of Dr Sacheverell. At the 1710 British general election he was returned again himself for Northumberland in a contest and tried unsuccessfully to return Tory candidates at Berwick-upon-Tweed and Morpeth. He was listed as one of the ‘Tory patriots’ who had opposed the continuation of the war, and one of the ‘worthy patriots’ who had helped to detect the mismanagements of the previous ministry. He supported the efforts of the Earl of Hertford and James Lowther, both Whigs, in carrying forward a bill to regulate trade on the border with Scotland. On 18 June 1713, he voted in favour of the French commerce bill. He was returned again at the 1713 British general election but was inactive in Parliament.  He was returned as MP for Northumberland at the 1715 British general election but his activities were diverted into supporting the Jacobite cause. [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S106] FOSTER Genealogy, Being the Record of the Posterity of Reginald Foster, Frederick Clifton Pierce, (Press of W. B. Conkey Company, Chicago). [S76] Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Forster.