For all his bodily fragility he was notable for his personal charisma, causing various newspapers to remark upon the numerous friends among his past and recent parishioners and among his fellow clergymen who formed part of his life and who attended his funeral and memorial services.

Charles' paternal grandfather Daniel Forster, an inspector of weights, was born in Otley, West Yorkshire in 1776, and died in 1844.

In honour of this marriage, 438 workers at B. Vickerman & Son, a woollen mill in Huddersfield, were given a day out by special train from Berry Brow to Southport.

[2][15][16] His funeral at 3pm at Beckwithshaw Church on 1 September 1894 was brief: he was buried just half an hour later at 3.30pm at Harlow Hill Cemetery, Harrogate.

Bensted died in 1878 he resigned his first curacy at Lockwood, and from 1878 to 1880 served as curate or vicar at St. Mary the Virgin, Deane, Bolton le Moors in Lancashire.

The Huddersfield & District Chronicle said: "indeed he raised the organisation of St Andrew's parish to such a pitch of perfection that it became noted throughout the borough for the efficiency and thoroughness of its church life."

[15] When he left this position, a subscription was held among his congregation and 80 people, many of them poor, contributed small sums towards two testimonials which were presented to Charles and his wife on the evening of 25 March 1887.

They brought Charles a "handsome and valuable" gold watch, on the back of which was engraved his monogram, with the text inscribed inside: "Presented by the congregation of St Andrew's Church, Huddersfield, to the Rev Charles Farrar Forster, vicar, in token of their appreciation of his seven years' earnest work amongst them.

Forster (on her leaving Huddersfield) by the congregation of St Andrew's Church, as a mark of their affection and esteem, March 1887."

It was headed by eighty policemen, nine firemen, over forty members of Huddersfield Borough Council and several Freemasons.

When the procession passed by the mills, machinery stopped, flags dropped to half-mast and the workers lined the route, heads bowed.

labouring patiently and diligently as an able preacher, a vigorous organiser, a wise manager of the schools, a painstaking parish priest, and in all things approved himself to be a Man of God.

Huddersfield Chronicle, 18 September 1894[31] The Church Times published an In Memoriam for Charles:Mr Forster had for some years suffered a painful and distressing malady which he bore, however, with remarkable fortitude .

A man of strong will, sound judgement and prompt decision, he influenced to no slight extent the Church life in Huddersfield while vicar of St Andrew's in that town; where he will ever be remembered for the definiteness of his teaching, the heartiness and reverence which characterised the services of his church, and for the well organised and successful day and Sunday schools connected therewith.

[2][15][33] He was nominated to the living of £200 per annum and the promise of a future vicarage by Dr Williams of Moor Park; his preferment was announced on 7 January 1887 and he was licensed to the post by the Bishop of Ripon on 17 March 1887.

[2][33] It was his success in dealing with parochial institutions and his "practical pulpit utterances," making St Andrew's a foremost church in its district, which recommended him for this new position.

On 1 June 1887, after collecting some scrap metal, blacksmiths Thomas Sadler and Anthony Pratt of Harrogate were drinking at the Smiths Arms opposite Beckwithshaw Church.

On the afternoon of 11 April 1889, he attended a large Anglican church meeting at Harrogate Church Institute, headed by the Earl of Harewood, the Bishop of Ripon, the Bishop of Penrith, Mr Joseph Dent Dent of Ribston Hall, and a large contingent of local clergy.

In Beckwithshaw, "in all absence of gloom" the church was crowded at the funeral service, while in the village blinds were drawn and "signs of marked sorrow were visible on every hand.

Charles Wesley's hymn Blessing, honour, thanks and praise was sung, and Mark Rowntree read the lesson before the choir sang the canticle Nunc Dimittis.

According to the Huddersfield Chronicle of 1894, the cross and its pedestal were inscribed, "Charles Farrar Forster, priest, born 29th February 1848; passed to rest 28th August 1894.

"[44] On the evening of Sunday 9 September 1894 a memorial service was held for Forster at St Andrew's Church, Huddersfield.

Yet through it all he was calm, patient, collected.Huddersfield Chronicle, 18 September 1894[31]The Church Times said:Appointed first vicar of the new parish of Beckwithshaw in 1887, he set himself to build up, slowly but surely, the life of his people .

and while he taught the fulness of the truth, and symbolised it in simple yet reverent form, he failed not by the bright example of his own life - so consistent, so nobly patient under the severest trials - to give a forcible illustration of the yielded will and godly endeavour of a Christian man.Huddersfield Chronicle, 18 September 1894[32]In July 2005, over a hundred years after Forster's death, his great-nephew visited Beckwithshaw Church, showing that he is still remembered by his family.