Robert Forster (Australian politician)

Robert Henry Mariner Forster was an Australian politician.
He was born at sea near Corfu to Henry and Margaret Forster; his father would later serve as governor of Goulburn Gaol. He arrived in Australia around 1836 and became a solicitor, based ar Armidale, [New South Wales|Armidale]. On 9 September 1847 he married Maria Ann Morris, with whom he had seven children. In 1862 he was elected to the New [South Wales Legislative Assembly] for New England, but he was defeated in 1864. He returned in 1870 as the member for Goldfields North; he was defeated in 1872, re-elected in 1875 and defeated again in 1877. Forster died at Greenwich in 1880.