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About William Forster
William Forster was a preacher, Quaker elder and a fervent abolitionist. He was an early member of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in 1839. It was William and Stephen Grellet who introduced Elizabeth Fry to her life's work with prisons, but it was William's brother, Josiah, who accompanied Fry on her tour and inspection of prisons in France.
Everything about William Forster →- Occupation
- abolitionist
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- March 23, 1784
- Died
- January 27, 1854