UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 25 October 1812, Greenock, Renfrewshire

Died: 26 December 1899

son of Thomas Forsyth

son of Jean Campbell Hamilton

husband of Mary Lyall

husband of Georgina Plummer

son-in-law of George Lyall

Sherborne School

Trinity College, Cambridge (- 1834)

Inner Temple (1834 -)

Lawyer

12 July 1865	Cambridge	Conservative Party	762	51.24
16 April 1866 Petition - William Forsyth was unseated on the grounds that he was legal adviser to the Council of India.
9 October 1873	Bath	Conservative Party	2,071	47.74
5 February 1874	Marylebone	Conservative Party	9,849	54.53