High Buston. By J. C. Hodgson. 343 



Duke of Gordon, by whom he had an only son, Gordon Joseph 

 Forster of High Buston and Newton-by-the-Sea, a Member of 

 our Club, who died unmarried in 1856.^^ Besides Dr Joseph 

 Forster, Joseph Forster and Mary Compton had at least five 

 sons, viz. — William Forster, Yicar of Lesbury^^ (the father of 

 Joseph Forster of London, stockbroker, who in 1856 succeeded 

 to High Buston) ; Francis Forster, Alderman of Newcastle 

 (born 1725, buried 1784, ancestor of the Forsters of Seaton 

 burn and Tynemouth, and of the late Sir Henry Manisty, one of 

 H.M. Judges); Samuel Forster^* of Buston Granary, corn 

 merchant (born 1735, married Dorothy Adams of Longhoughton 

 died s.p.) ; Ealph Forster, Eector of Great Warley, Essex, born 

 1730); and George Forster (born 1729) who farmed the family 

 estate at High Buston, and had, by Elizabeth Rutherford his 

 wife, four sons and three daughters,^^ of whom George Forster 



*^ Gordon Joseph Forster, Christ Church, Oxford, matriculated 20th 

 October 1790, aged 19. — Forster' s Oxford Alumni. 



Gordon Jos. Forster, and his son, Wm. Forster, contributed to the 

 Proceedings of this Club, papers printed, vol. ii., p. 173, and vol. i., p. 229. 



" William Forster, son of Joseph Forster of Newton, ' armiger,' Lincoln 

 College, matriculated 19 March 1740-1, aged 18. Forster' s Oxford Alumni. 



He was inducted to the vicarage of Longhoughton, 9th October 1752 ; 

 and 11th October 1770 was married at Edinburgh by Mr Carr, minister of 

 the English Chapel, to Margaret, daughter of Mr John Cameron of 

 Fassefern. — Memoranda in Longhoughton Register Books. 



He was presented to Lesbury in 1775, and was buried at Embleton 3rd 

 September 1784. — Lesbury Registers. 



^* In 1786, Samuel Forster of Buston Granary, corn merchant, was 

 presented at the Court Leet, and fined 5/- for refusing to serve the office 

 of Constable for High Buston. — Warkworth Court Rolls. 



""1781, August. Married a few days ago at Warkworth, Mr Thos. 

 ColKngwood, surgeon, Alnwick, to the amiable Miss Forster of High 

 Boston, an accomplished young lady, with a fortune of £3,000 !" — (sic.) 

 Newcastle Journal. Dr Collingwood, who married Elizabeth, eldest 

 daughter of George Forster, derived his descent from Sir David Colling- 

 wood of Brandon, and was born at Bates' Cross, near Berwick, in 1751. 

 He studied and graduated at Edinburgh, and practiced first at Norham, 

 and then at Alnwick, as surgeon and apothecary. He is credited with the 

 introduction of improved turnip husbandry into the west of Scotland, and 

 at Alnwick with being one of the institution of the public library. In 

 1786 he wrote The Dead Alive Again, and The Pleasant Separation, satiriz- 

 ing the domestic troubles of Percival Stockdale, the brilliant and eccentric 

 vicar of Lesbury. About the same time he removed to Sunderland, and 

 after a life busy with professional, philanthropic, and literary pursuits, 

 died there 1822, aged 71." — Mackenzie's Northumberland, vol. ii., p. 18. 

 Tate's Alnwick, vol. ii., p. 401. 



