By the middle of the 19th century, industrialisation swept away most of the city's medieval rules of production and commerce, although the entirely corrupt remains of the city's mediæval constitution was kept in place ( compare the famous remarks of Georg Forster in his Ansichten vom Niederrhein ) until 1801, when Aachen became the " chef-lieu du département de la Roer " in Napoléon's First French Empire.

Aldini's most famous public demonstrations of the electro-stimulation technique of deceased limbs was performed on the executed criminal George Forster at Newgate in London in 1803.

While it is true that Aldini did do these attempts at human reanimation during the same time of Shelley's writings, and Forster execution was a sensational notice in the public venue, there is no specific reference that Shelley did actually adapt Aldini into her works despite obviously being aware of Aldini's experiments which were done in public at the Royal College of Physicians in 1803.

Significant post-retirement activities of earlier Governors-General have included: Lord Tennyson was appointed Deputy Governor of the Isle of Wight ; Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson ( by now Lord Novar ) became Secretary of State for Scotland ; and Lord Gowrie became Chairman of the Marylebone Cricket Club ( Lord Forster had also held this post, before his appointment as Governor-General ).

The Little Penguin was first described by German naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster in 1781.

George Forster, who had been on Cook ’ s second voyage to the Pacific and had been with him when he landed on Norfolk Island, was at the time professor of natural history at the University of Vilna ( or Vilnius ) in Polish Lithuania: Forster discussed the proposed Botany Bay colony in an article written in November 1786, “ Neuholland, und die brittische Colonie in Botany Bay ”.

Though unaware of the British intention to settle Norfolk Island, which was not announced until 5 December 1786, Forster referred to “ the nearness of New Zealand ; the excellent flax plant ( Phormium ) that grows so abundantly there ; its incomparable shipbuilding timber ”, as among the advantages of the new colony.

An idealised vision of the new British settlement was given in the novel by Therese Forster, Abentheuer auf einer Reise nach Neu-Holland on a Voyage to New Holland, published in the German women ’ s magazine, Flora for 1793 and 1794:

In the last two decades of the 18th century polygenism, the belief that different races had evolved separately in each continent and shared no common ancestor, was advocated in England by historian Edward Long and anatomist Charles White, in Germany by ethnographers Christoph Meiners and Georg Forster, and in France by Julien-Joseph Virey, and prominently in the US by Samuel Morton, Josiah Nott and Louis Agassiz.

Valkyrie was a UK role-playing magazine published by Partisan Press and edited originally by Dave Renton ( original editor of Role Player Independent ) and then taken over by Jay Forster.

The Bloomsbury Group — or Bloomsbury Set — was an enormously influential group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists, the best known members of which included Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Lytton Strachey.

Virginia Woolf was writing and publishing her most widely-read modernist novels and essays, E. M. Forster completed A Passage to India which remains the most highly regarded novel on British imperialism in India.

It is usually attributed to renowned orientalist and author Sir Richard Francis Burton, but the chief work was done by the pioneering Indian archaeologist, Bhagwanlal Indraji, under the guidance of Burton's friend, the Indian civil servant Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot, and with the assistance of a student, Shivaram Parshuram Bhide.

Johann Georg Adam Forster ( November 27, 1754 – January 10, 1794 ) was a German-Polish naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary.

As a result of the report Forster was admitted to the Royal Society at the early age of twenty-two and came to be considered one of the founders of modern scientific travel literature.

Forster was a central figure of the Enlightenment in Germany, and corresponded with most of its adherents, including his close friend Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.

During July 1793 and while he was in Paris as a delegate of the young Mainz Republic, Prussian and Austrian coalition forces regained control of the city and Forster was declared an outlaw.

Georg Forster was born in the small village of Nassenhuben ( Mokry Dwór ) near Danzig ( Gdańsk ), in the province of Royal Prussia, in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland.

He was the oldest of seven surviving children of Johann Reinhold Forster and Justina Elisabeth ( née Nicolai ).

The young Forster, only thirteen years old, published his first book: an English translation of Lomonosov's history of Russia, which was well received in scientific circles.

Georg Forster joined his father in the expedition again and was appointed as a draughtsman to his father.

Forster wrote well-polished German prose, which was not only scientifically accurate and objective, but also exciting and easy to read.

From the time in Kassel on, Forster was in active correspondence with important figures of the Enlightenment, including Lessing, Herder, Wieland and Goethe.

Forster had partial Scottish roots and was born in Polish Royal Prussia, and therefore was by birth a Polish subject.

Brian Forster ( born April 14, 1960 ) was the second actor to play the role of Chris Partridge in the television series The Partridge Family.

Margaret Forster ( born 25 May 1938 ) is a British author.

Forster himself was born in the city of Dirschau ( Tczew ) in the province of Royal Prussia, in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland.

He was born probably at Leominster, England, the son of William Hoby of Leominster by his first wife, Katherine Forster.

Robert Forster ( born July 13, 1941 ) is an American actor, best known for his roles as John Cassellis in Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool, and as Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, the latter of which gained him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Forster was born Robert Wallace Foster, Jr. in Rochester, New York, the son of Grace Dorothy ( née Montanarella ) and Robert Wallace Foster, Sr., who worked as an elephant trainer for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and later as an executive for a baking supply company.

Hesseman was born in Lebanon, Oregon, the son of Edna ( née Forster ) and George Henry Hesseman .< ref >

* Nicky Forster ( born 1973 ), English football manager and former player

* Sandy Woodward ( John Forster Woodward, born 1932 ), British admiral

Forster was born in Au ( today Illertissen ), in the Neu-Ulm district of Bavaria.

Forster was born in Fürth, Bavaria, where he attended the Humanistisches Gymnasium from 1912 to 1920.

Matthew Forster Heddle ( 28 April 1828 – 19 November 1897 ), Scottish mineralogist, was born at Hoy in Orkney.

Forster was born in Dublin, the son of Richard Forster and his wife Anne Webber.

Notable sportspeople from Caterham include the footballer Nicky Forster and Dar Lyon, first class cricketer, both of whom were born in the town.

Forster was born in 1823 in Lambeth, London, where his father and grandfather before him had been local medical practitioners.

Ariane Daniele Forster was born in Munich, Germany, the granddaughter of a wealthy German newspaper proprietor.

Forster concludes by stating that these “ are the reflections of an individualist and a liberal " who has " found liberalism crumbling beneath him ", taking comfort from the fact that people are born separately and die separately.

Nicholas Michael " Nicky " Forster ( born 8 September 1973 ) is a former professional footballer who has also been player-manager at Brentford, and is now manager of Dover Athletic.

Forster, who was born in Caterham, Surrey, was spotted playing for non-league Horley Town and invited for trials by Gillingham in December 1991.

Ripley was born in Wimbledon, south-west London to Bev and Tina Ripley ( née Forster ) on 26 February 1966.

* 15 January – Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster ( born 1866 ), Governor-General of Australia ( 1920 – 1925 )