Edward Forster

(1769-1828)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Forster, Edward, 1769-1828 NRA: Forster Edward (1769-1828) Miscellaneous Writer DNB: Forster, Edward (1769-1828), writer LBT ID: EdForst1828 VIAF ID: 63994651 LOC ID: n85253035	B/BAP: 1769-06-11 DIED: 1828-03-18
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Clergyman and writer, educated under Samuel Parr; he was a popular London preacher who was elected FRS and FSA. He produced illustrated volumes of classics and published anonymously Occasional Amusements (1809).
REFERENCES TO Edward Forster: Walter Scott to James Ballantyne, 12 April 1805 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter II 1805 Found 2: ¶ 8 ¶ 9 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter I. 1803-1805. Found 1: ¶ 4