Cecil Weld-Forester, 5th Baron Forester

Cecil Theodore Weld-Forester, 5th Baron Forester (3 August 1842 – 20 November 1917), was a British peer and Conservative Member of Parliament, styled The Honourable from 1886 to 1894.

[1] He was elected to the House of Commons for Wenlock in 1874 (succeeding his uncle George Weld-Forester), a seat he held until 1885 when the constituency was abolished.

He also served in local government, as a member of Shropshire County Council, and was twice Mayor of the Borough of Wenlock.

[2] In 1876, he served as President of the Wenlock Olympian Games[3] and in 1902 as Treasurer of the Salop Infirmary in Shrewsbury.

His third son, Francis, married, as his second wife, Grace Peel, granddaughter of Whig prime minister John Russell.