Author talk:John Forster (1817-1878)

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  • The Sheffield Daily Telegraph (Sheffield, England), Thursday, January 10, 1878; pg. 3; Issue 7041.


We regret to announce the death of Mr. John Forster, formerly M.P. or Berwick. Mr. Forster died suddenly on returning to his residence on Monday evening, He was the eldest son of Mr. Matthew Forster, a merchant largely engaged in the West African trade, and the representative of Berwick for many years in Parliament. The deceased, who was born in 1817, sat for the same place from May, 1853, to the dissolution in 1857. Mr. John Forster was a man of large attainments and kindly disposition, and dies lamented by many attached friends.

  • The Newcastle Courant etc (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England), Friday, January 11, 1878; Issue 10594.

MR. JOHN FORSTER

The death is announced is Mr John Forster of London, the Chairman of the South Hetton Coal Company, Limited, whose chief offices are in John Street, Sunderland. …

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