Major Francis Forester (19 August 1774 – 21 October 1861) was a Tory British Member of Parliament.
Forester had pursued his military career until he married a daughter of the Earl of Darlington, with whom he served in Portugal in 1808 and 1809.
[1] At the 1820 general election, he was returned for Wenlock to replace his elder brother Cecil who had retired in anticipation of being elevated to the peerage.
Townshend Forester who was the Rector of Brosely and Bailiff of Wenlock, he was recorded as voting against Catholic relief.
Later in his life, Forester rented Somerby House and lived mainly in London, where he died at his home in St James's Place on 21 October 1861.