Thomas Forster

Thomas Forster
Born1683 (1683)
Adderstone Hall, Northumberland, England
Died27 October 1738(1738-10-27) (aged 54–55)
Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
OccupationMember of Parliament
Known forLeadership of Jacobite forces in northern England during the Jacobite rising of 1715
Political party
Tories

Thomas Forster (1683 – 27 October 1738), of Adderstone Hall, Northumberland, was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1716. He served as a general of the Jacobite army in the 1715 Uprising and subsequently fled into exile in France.

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