John Forster (died March 1748) was an administrator of the

English East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South Asia and Southeast A ...

. He served as governor of Fort William in

Bengal Bengal ( ) is a Historical geography, historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the Eastern South Asia, eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal. The region of Benga ...

in the eighteenth century. His daughter John Anna Forster (died 4 June 1774) married Sir Harry Goring, 6th Baronet.

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Presidents of Bengal English businesspeople British East India Company people 18th-century British civil servants Year of birth missing 1748 deaths {{UK-gov-bio-stub