Benjamin Forster (7 August 1736 – 2 December 1805) was an English antiquary and clergyman.
He was educated at Hertford school and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he had as friends and fellow-students the antiquarians Richard Gough and Michael Tyson.
[1] Having taken orders, ‘though he was never very orthodox,' he became in succession curate of Wanstead and of Broomfield and Chignal Smeely in Essex (1760), Lady Camden lecturer at Wakefield (1766), and rector of Boconnoc, Broadoak, and Cherichayes in Cornwall (1770).
Forster was somewhat eccentric, surrounding himself with pet animals, but he was a learned antiquary.
648–50, and Literary Illustrations, v. 280–90, while many of Richard Gough's letters to him are in a volume privately printed at Bruges (1845–50) by his great-nephew, Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster, entitled Epistolarium Forsterianum.