S. Forster
General information▶Date of birth: 30 July 1752 Place of birth: (baptised) Halesworth, Suffolk ▶Father: Thomas Forster Mother: Elizabeth Thompson ▶Spouse(s): Elizabeth Turenne Date(s) of marriage: 1 May 1783 Place(s) of marriage: St Clement Danes, London ▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican); Headmaster, Tutor ▶Lifestory: [Identification likely but not confirmed.] The Revd. Samuel Forster was baptised at Halesworth, Suffolk, in 1752, the second son of Thomas Forster, Rector of Halesworth, Suffolk, and his wife Elizabeth (née Thompson). He was educated at Eton College from 1763, King’s Scholar 1763, and matriculated at St John’s College, Cambridge in 1772, BA (Chancellor’s Medal and first Classic) 1776, MA 1779, DD 1791, Fellow 1776-84. He took holy orders and was ordained Deacon and Priest (both Norwich) in 1776. In 1776 he succeeded his father as Rector of Tunstead with South Ruston, in Norfolk, and in 1783 he married Elizabeth Turenne, “a lady of French extraction”; they had at least one son and two daughters. The same year he moved to become Rector of Wainfleet All Saints, Lincolnshire. After that he was appointed Perpetual Curate of Walpole, Suffolk; he remained there (also as Headmaster of Norwich Grammar School from 1785) until 1810, by which time the roll of pupils at the school had dwindled to eight. At the same time he accompanied the sons of the Marquess of Bristol to Eton as their private tutor, and also assumed pluralist offices as Perpetual Curate of St Michael-at-Coslany, Norwich 1797-1810 and as Incumbent of St Peter’s Hungate, Norwich 1791-1810. In 1810 he was presented with the office of Vicar of Great and Little Chesterford, Essex, and in 1817 moved on to become Rector of Shotley St Mary (alias Kirkton), Suffolk, where he spent two and a half decades until his death in 1843. Again he assumed plural offices, as Vicar of Rushmere St Andrew 1826 and as Rector of Quarrington, Lincolnshire 1826-43. Forster lost his sight in his latter years, and in 1841-2 lived at 12 Pittville Lawn (now 61 Pittville Lawn), when he is listed as taking out a subscription to visit the Pittville Pump Room. He died at his rectory at Shotley in 1843, at the age of ninety, “a man of learning and of taste, his good nature rendered him popular as a preceptor, and his polished manners made him welcome to the best society both in county and city” (Norfolk Chronicle). ▶Moved to Pittville from: Shotley, Suffolk Moved from Pittville to: Shotley, Suffolk ▶Date of death: 24 July 1843 Place of death: Shotley Rectory, Shotley, Suffolk ▶Date of burial: Place of burial: ▶Notes: Alumni Cantabrigienses, Eton College lists; The Perlustration of Great Yarmouth, with Charleston and Southtown Vol 2 p. 193; Norfolk Chronicle 29 July 1843 ID: 19310 Contributor(s): John Simpson
Found no family members on the Pittville History Works Database (based on “relation to head” in the 1841-1911 census records and 1939 register records) |