Sir George William David Stark Forrest (1845–1926) was a British educator, journalist and historian, in India from 1872 to 1900.
[1] He was the second son of George Forrest VC, born at Nasirabad, Ajmer.
As a journalist, he was known for work published in The Times, particularly a scoop in 1880 with the Battle of Maiwand.
He was seconded to work on the Bombay Records, 1884-8, becoming Professor of English History, Elphinstone College, in 1887.
[1] He went in 1904 to Iffley Turn House just outside Oxford, was knighted in 1913, and died there on 28 January 1926.