[2] His sister, Mary Forester, was the wife of Sir Brian Broughton-Delves, 4th Baronet and Humphrey Mackworth Praed, MP for St Ives.
[3] His paternal grandparents were Sir William Forester and Lady Mary Cecil (a daughter of the 3rd Earl of Salisbury).
He was a Lieutenant Colonel in the 11th Foot in 1755 (under Lt.-Gen. Maurice Bocland) before selling out in 1760 after failing to secure appointment as aide-de-camp to the King.
[1] Like his father and grandfather before him, he was returned as Member of Parliament for Wenlock between 1761 and 1768, serving alongside his elder brother Brooke (an ally of the Duke of Newcastle).
[12] Through his eldest son Cecil, he was a grandfather of John Weld-Forester, 2nd Baron Forester (who married Alexandrine, Viscountess Melbourne, a daughter of Joachim Carl Ludwig, Count von Maltzan, and widow of Frederick Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne),[12] Anne Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield (wife of George Stanhope, 6th Earl of Chesterfield),[12] Hon.