William Forsyth (barrister)

William Forsyth QC (25 October 1812 – 26 December 1899) was a Scottish lawyer and Conservative[1] Member of Parliament (MP).

He was born at Greenock in Renfrewshire, son of merchant Thomas Forsyth, of Birkenhead, and Jane Campbell, daughter of John Hamilton, of Deer Park, near Greenock, from a landed gentry family of Scottish origin that had settled at Wilton, Herefordshire.

[1] He wrote a number of books on historical and legal subjects, including History of Trial By Jury (1852), Life of Cicero (1864), The Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century (1871) and Hannibal in Italy (1872).

[6] In 1849, the chief surveyor of the Canterbury Association, Joseph Thomas, named Lake Forsyth for him.

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