Edward Forster the Younger FLS (12 October 1765 – 23 February 1849) was an English banker and botanist.

[1] Forster resided mainly at Hale End, Walthamstow, but at the time of his death was at the Ivy House, Woodford, London.

He died of cholera, 23 February 1849, two days after inspecting the Hackney Road Refuge on the occasion of an outbreak of the disease.

He printed papers on critical species of British plants in the Transactions of the Linnean Society, the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, and The Phytologist.

[4] In 1796 Forster married Mary Jane, only daughter of Abraham Greenwood, who died in 1846 without surviving issue.