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See also:FORSTER, See also:JOHN (1812-1876) , See also:English biographer and critic, was See also:born on the and of See also:April 1812 at See also:Newcastle. His See also:father, who was a Unitarian and belonged to the junior See also:branch of a See also:good See also:Northumberland See also:family, was a See also:cattle-dealer. After being well grounded in See also:classics and See also:mathematics at the See also:grammar school of his native See also:town, John Forster was sent in 1828 to See also:Cambridge, but after only a See also:month's See also:residence he removed to See also:London, where he attended classes at University See also:College, and was entered at the Inner See also:Temple. He devoted himself, however, chiefly to See also:literary pursuits. He contributed to The True See also:Sun, The See also:Morning See also:Chronicle and to The Examiner, for which he acted as literary and dramatic critic; and the See also:influence of his powerful individuality soon made itself See also:felt. His Lives of the Statesmen of the Ccmmonwealth (1836-1839) appeared partly in See also:Lardner's Cyclopaedia. He published the See also:work separately in 184o with a See also:Treatise on the Popular Progress in English See also:History. Its merits obtained immediate recognition, and Forster became a prominent figure in that distinguished circle of literary men which included Bulwer, See also:Talfourd, See also:Albany, See also:Fonblanque, See also:Landor, See also:Carlyle and See also:Dickens. Forster is said to have been for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time engaged to Letitia See also:Landon, but the engagement was broken off, and See also:Miss Landon married See also:George Maclean. In 1843 he was called to the See also:bar but he never became a practising lawyer. For some years he edited the See also:Foreign Quarterly See also:Review; in 1846, on the retirement of See also:Charles Dickens, he took See also:charge for some months of the Daily See also:News; and from 1847 to 1856 he edited the Examiner. From 1836 onwards he contributed to the See also:Edinburgh Quarterly and Foreign Quarterly Reviews a variety of articles, some of which were republished in two volumes of See also:Biographical and See also:Historical Essays (r858). In 1848 appeared his admirable See also:Life and Times of See also:Oliver See also:Goldsmith (revised in 1854). Continuing his researches into English history under the See also:early Stuarts, he published in 186o the See also:Arrest of the Five Members by Charles I.—A See also:Chapter of English History rewritten, and The Debates on the See also:Grand Remonstrance, with an See also:Introductory See also:Essay on English Freedom. These were followed by his See also:Sir John See also:Eliot: a See also:Biography (1864), elaborated from one of his earlier studies for the Lives of Eminent See also:British Statesmen. In 1868 appeared his Life of Landor, and, on the See also:death of his friend See also:Alexander See also:Dyce, Forster undertook the publication of his third edition of See also:Shakespeare. For several years he had been See also:collecting materials for a life of See also:Swift, but he interrupted his studies in this direction to write his See also:standard Life of Charles Dickens. He had See also:long been intimate with the novelist, and it is by this work that John Forster is now chiefly remembered. The first See also:volume appeared in 1872, and the biography was completed in 1874. Towards the See also:close of 1875 the first volume of his Life of Swift was published; and he had made some progress in the preparation of the second at the time of his death on the 2nd of See also:February 1876. In 1855 Forster had been appointed secretary to the lunacy See also:commission, and from 1861 to 1872 he held the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of a See also:commissioner in lunacy. His valuable collection of See also:manuscripts, including the See also:original copies of Charles Dickens's novels, together with hisbooks and pictures, was bequeathed to See also:South See also:Kensington Museum.
An admirable See also:account of him by See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Morley is prefixed to the See also:official handbook (1877) of the Dyce and Forster bequests.
End of Article: FORSTER, JOHN (1812-1876)
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