Matthew Forster (1786 – 2 September 1869)[1] was a British Whig politician and merchant.
[2] At the ensuing by-election, his son John Forster was elected as a Whig candidate.
[3] Forster attempted to regain the seat at the 1857 general election but ranked bottom of the poll.
[3][5] In 1840 Richard Robert Madden (the Special Commissioner of Inquiry into the British Settlements on the West Coast of Africa) reported that Forster was one of the London-based merchants who were actively (and illegally) helping the slave traders.
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