H. O. Arnold-Forster

Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster

Arnold-Forster was the son of William Delafield Arnold, Director of Public Instruction in the Punjab, and Frances Anne Hodgson, known as Fanny, the daughter of Major-General John Anthony Hodgson of the Bengal army. She died in 1858.^[1] His grandfather was Thomas Arnold, headmaster of Rugby. When his father died in 1859, he and his siblings were adopted by William Edward Forster and his wife Jane, who was his father's sister.^[2] He was educated at Rugby and University College, Oxford, from which he graduated with first class honours. He was called to the bar in 1879.

Political career

Arnold-Forster acted as private secretary to his adoptive father, who became

Arnold-Forster married Mary Lucy Story-Maskelyne (1861–1951), daughter of Nevil Story Maskelyne and Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn (Welsh astronomer and pioneer in scientific photography) in 1885. They had four sons, of whom his Times obituary states "the eldest is just beginning to practise as an artist, and the youngest is a naval cadet." They were:

• William Edward Arnold-Forster (8 May 1886 – 1951) artist, author and Labour politician, married Katherine "Ka" Laird Cox in 1918. She was the former lover of Rupert Brooke. Their son was Mark Arnold-Forster. After Cox's death, he married Ruth Mallory, widow of George Mallory
  , the mountaineer.
• Mervyn Nevill Arnold-Forster (21 March 1888 – 6 May 1927)
• John Anthony Arnold-Forster (20 September 1889 – 1958), married Daphne Mansel-Pleydell in 1919. Vanda Morton, biographer of Nevil Story Maskelyne, is their daughter.
• Hugh Christopher Arnold-Forster (9 December 1890 – 21 July 1965), who rose to become a Commander in the Royal Navy and served as Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence during the
  Second World War
  ; married Marcia Buddicom in 1922 and Frances Brown in 1948.

• How to Solve the Irish Land Question
• The Citizen Reader
• The Laws of Everyday Life
• This World of Ours
• In a Conning Tower
• Things New and Old
• Our Home Army
• A History of England
• Army Letters
• The Coming of the Kilogram
• Our Great City
• The Army in 1906: a Policy and a Vindication
• English Socialism of To-Day
• An English View of Irish Secession in Political Science Quarterly (Mar. 1889)
• The Queen's Empire: A Pictorial and Descriptive Record, 2 Volumes, 1899
• Military needs and military policy

References

Bibliography

• Morton, Vanda (1987). Oxford rebels: the life and friends of Nevil Story Maskelyne 1823-1911 : pioneer Oxford scientist, photographer and politician.
  ISBN 0-86299-456-X
  .
• Concise Dictionary of National Biography.
• Black, A & C (1912).
  ISBN 978-0-7136-7527-6
  .
• Shannon, R. T. (21 May 2009). "Forster, Hugh Oakeley Arnold".
  doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30459. (Subscription or UK public library membership
  required.)

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• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by H. O. Arnold-Forster

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