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.

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  • 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.
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  • William between two fellow abolitionists (George Stacey and William Morgan) in a detail from a painting.
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  • William Forster (1747–1824)and Elizabeth Hayward (1759–1837)
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  • 1.Rachel Wilson
    2.Sarah DillworthEdward H. Milligan, , ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, (subscription required for online access). Retrieved 17 July .
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