Forster, Edward Montague

First name(s)

Edward Montague

Surname

Forster

Position(s) held at King's College London

Secretary of King's College Hospital, 1874-1877

Education & professional details

School, college and/or university attended

Downing College, Cambridge

Lincoln’s Inn 

Qualifications

BA 1870, MA 1874

Called to the bar, 1873

Personal details

Date of birth

[July] 1844

Place of birth

Lewisham, Kent

Date of death

22 June 1877

Place of death

At sea - on board the Polynesian bound for Quebec

Family details

Third son of the Rev Stewart Evelyn Forster.

Notes

The register of deaths at sea gives his cause of death as pneumonia, as does the death notice in the Standard on 3 July 1877. However, Cambridge University Alumni records suggest he died of typhoid fever contracted at King’s College Hospital