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THE ESSEX NATURALIST. 
Walthamstow (where his parents had settled in the preceding 1 
year), it is believed in the still existing “ Clock House,” a spacious 
yellow-brick Georgian mansion with stable outbuildings, standing 
in once extensive grounds. 
Edward became a partner in the banking firm of Forster 
Lubbock Bosanquets and Co. 6 , afterwards styled Forster Lubbocks 
Forster and Clarke, of n Mansion-house-street, E.C., which has 
developed into the well-known Robarts, Lubbock and Co., of 
which the late Lord Avebury (formerly Sir John Lubbock), was 
chief. 
In 1796, Edward married : his wife, Mary Jane (b. 11 July 
1763 d. 14 January 1845), was only daughter of one Abraham 
Greenwood, of whom I have been unable to learn any particulars- 
His botanical tastes were of life-long duration. In boyhood 
he collected the local wild plants of his Walthamstow home in 
company with his two brothers, and the present volume bears 
evidence that his habit of noting and recording botanical finds 
persisted into old age. 
He paid considerable attention to cryptogams, particularly 
lichens : a manuscript list of some 40 of these obscure plants, 
recorded by him from Epping Forest, is given in his inter-leaved 
copy of Turner and Dillwyn’s Botanist's Guide, 1805. 
Edward Forster was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society 
in 1800, and was appointed Treasurer of the Society in 1816, and 
one of its Vice-Presidents in 1828. On 22 February 1821, he was 
elected F.R.S. 
In 1848 he wrote for the Ray Society a short biographical 
notice of George Scott, F.R.S. (b. 1719 d. 1780), the antiquary, 
of Woolston Hall, Chigwell, nephew of Dr. William Derham of 
Upminster, and editor of his “ Select Remains of the Learned 
John Ray ” and also of “ Mr. Ray’s Itineraries,” 1760. 6 
He died 23 February 1849, at Woodford, in his 84th year, of 
cholera, and lies buried in the family vault in St. Mary’s Church¬ 
yard at Walthamstow, together with his wife and his brother 
Benjamin : but there is no inscription to his memory. 
A subscription portrait in oils was painted by Eddis in 1836, 
and presented to the Linnean Society, in whos£ Meeting Room it 
5. The Bosanquet family were lords of the manor of Low Hall, Walthamstow, from 1741 
down to 1877, and resided at Forest House, Leyton. One of its members, William Bosanquet* 
founded the banking firm referred to. 
6. Correspondence of John Ray, Appendix A., 1848, p. 481. 
