Sir Dudley Forwood, 2nd Baronet

Forwood was born on 31 May 1875. He was the eldest son of Sir Arthur Forwood, 1st Baronet and, his second wife, Mary Anne Eliza Baines. They lived at The Priory, Gateacre, Liverpool. From his father's first marriage to Lucy Crosfield (niece of Joseph Crosfield), he had three elder half-sisters. Lucy died in 1873, and the next year his father married his mother, and had they had four sons and a daughter. His father, a wealthy merchant who was the Conservative MP for Ormskirk, served as Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty from 1886 to 1892. His paternal grandparents were merchant Thomas Brittain Forwood and Charlotte (née Bower) Forwood, the daughter of a cotton broker. His uncle was the merchant, shipowner and politician William Bower Forwood. His maternal grandparents were Frances "Fanny" ( Higgins) Baines and the journalist and historian Thomas Baines, FRS, of Liverpool and of London. Through his maternal aunt, Frances Jane Baines, the wife of industrialist Edmund Knowles Muspratt, he was a first cousin of Suffragists, Nessie Stewart-Brown, Julia Solly, and Liberal MP, Max Muspratt. He was educated at Harrow School. ==Career==

Upon the death of his father, he succeeded as the 2nd Baronet Forwood on 27 September 1898. He fought in World War I, where he was mentioned in despatches. He gained the rank of Major and Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel in the 2nd Lancashire Royal Field Artillery. He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Field Artillery. He was appointed Companion, Order of St Michael and St George in 1919. He was Master of the New Forest Buck Hounds between 1950 and 1957. ==Personal life==

On 24 July 1901, Forwood was married to Norah Isabella Lockett (1875–1962), daughter of Richard Robertson Lockett and Isabella Paterson. Together, they were the parents of two sons: he married, as her fourth husband, Mary Gwendoline Foster, daughter of Basil Samuel Foster and Gwendoline Brogden, in 1952. She was previously married to Inigo Freeman-Thomas, 2nd Marquess of Willingdon (when he was Viscount Ratendone), Frederick Robert Cullingford, and Brig. Donald Croft-Wilcock. Sir Dudley died on 22 December 1961 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his only surviving son, Dudley. ==References==