Forster, Benjamin, 1736-1805

found: His Some account of the church and windows of St. Neot's, 1786(name not given)

found: Wikipedia, Novembe 19, 2020(Benjamin Forster (antiquary); Benjamin Forster (7 August 1736--2 December 1805) was an English antiquary; Forster was born in Walbrook, London; he was educated at Hertford school and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he had as friends and fellow-students the antiquarians Richard Gough and Michael Tyson; he graduated as B.A. in 1757, becoming M.A. and fellow of his college in 1760, and B.D. 1768; having taken orders, he became in succession curate of Wanstead and of Broomfield and Chignal Smeely in Essex (1760), Lady Camden lecturer at Wakefield (1766), and rector of Boconnoc, Broadoak, and Cherichayes in Cornwall (1770); he died at Boconnoc parsonage; his letters are preserved in John Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, ix. 648-50, and Literary Illustrations, v. 280-90, while many of Richard Gough's letters to him are in a volume privately printed at Bruges (1845-50) by his great-nephew, Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster, entitled Epistolarium Forsterianum; among his friends were the poets William Mason and Thomas Gray)