Cecil Weld-Forester, 5th Baron Forester

Cecil Theodore Weld-Forester, 5th Baron Forester (3 August 1842 – 20 November 1917), was a British peer and Conservative Member of Parliament, styled The Honourable from 1886 to 1894.

Forester was the son of Reverend Orlando Weld-Forester, 4th Baron Forester, and Sophia Elizabeth Norman. He was elected to the House of Commons for Wenlock in 1874 (succeeding his uncle George Weld-Forester), a seat he held until 1885 when the constituency was abolished. In 1894 he succeeded his father as fifth Baron Forester and entered the House of Lords.

Lord Forester married Emma Georgina Dixie, daughter of Sir Willoughby Wolstan Dixie, 8th Baronet, in 1866. He died in November 1917, aged 75, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son George. His 3rd son, Francis, married as his second wife, Grace Peel, grand-daughter of Whig prime minister John Russell. Lady Forester died in 1922.

References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• www.thepeerage.com

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by George Weld-Forester Alexander Hargreaves Brown	Member of Parliament for Wenlock 1874–1885 With: Alexander Hargreaves Brown	Constituency abolished
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Orlando Weld-Forester	Baron Forester 1894–1917	Succeeded by George Weld-Forester