[1] Weld-Forester entered the British Army on commission in 1824, he was a Captain of the Royal Horse Guards and was recorded residing at the Hyde Park Barracks the night of the 1841 census.

He was promoted to staff rank as Major-General in 1863 and Lieutenant-General in 1871, retiring, aged seventy, as full General in 1877 but saw no campaign service.

[1] Weld-Forester succeeded his brother as member of parliament for Wenlock in 1828, a seat he would hold for 46 years.

[3] He had been Groom of the Bedchamber to William IV from 1830 to 1831[1] and served in the first two Conservative administrations of the Earl of Derby as Comptroller of the Household between February[4] and December 1852[5] and from 1858[6] to 1859.

Lord Forester died at 3 Carlton Gardens, London, in February 1886, aged 78, and was buried at Willey parish church.