Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster
(1855-1909), Politician, Secretary of State for War and MP for Belfast West and Croydon and authorSitter in 5 portraits
Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster was called to the bar in 1879 but, instead of practising law, became private secretary to his adoptive father, William Edward Forster, who was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1880. He joined Cassell & Co. in 1885, for whom he prepared educational manuals, including the Citizen Reader series. Arnold-Forster sat in Parliament as a Liberal Unionist MP for West Belfast from 1892 until 1906 and then as a Unionist member for Croydon from 1906 until his death. He served in Government as Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty from 1900 until 1903 and as Secretary of State for War from 1903 to 1905, during which time he reorganised the War Office.
by Sydney Prior Hall
pencil, 1894
NPG 2328
by Benjamin Stone
platinum print, July 1899
NPG x128586
by Benjamin Stone
platinum print, July 1899
NPG x128587
by Elliott & Fry
carbon print
NPG Ax16110
Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster ('Men of te Day. No. 968. "The Heritage of Woe"')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 24 August 1905
NPG D45289
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