M. Forster

Senior partner of Forster and Smith, merchants, and politician.

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 supporting the illegal activities of the slave traders, but that he was never criminally prosecuted. (A. Boyd, ‘The Life and Times of R. R. Madden’, Seanchas Ardmhacha: Journal of the Armagh Diocesan Historical Society, vol. 20, no. 2, 2005, 133–154 (150). JSTOR, <http://www.jstor.org/stable/29742754> accessed 2 August 2021.)

No known connections with abolition.

Donor: presented in 1845: NG1871.

History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
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C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://www.oxforddnb.com/
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J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/
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UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
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