Lord Forrester

Lord Forrester is a non-canonical character created for the 2009 ITV adaptation of Nemesis. He is a wealthy nobleman who owns Forrester Grange, the first stop on the "Daffodil Mystery Tour" which Jason Rafiel had arranged for Miss Marple.

Lord Forrester does not appear in the show in person but is mentioned many times as a key player in the backstory of many of the individuals on the tour. At the time of the events in the show, he no longer lives in Forrester Grange but in a nursing home with not long to live. Lord Forrester has no children and his niece Amanda Dalrymple, a passenger on the coach tour, is expected to be his heiress.

Towards the end of the show, Amanda reveals that Lord Forrester had in fact had a liaison with a housemaid who gave birth to Verity Hunt. When the housemaid died and Verity turned 21, Forrester had changed his will to leave everything to Verity on the grounds that she was his daughter. However Amanda found out and drove Verity out of the grange. This took place presumably sometime before 1939, some 12 or so years before the coach tour. This event of Verity leaving the grange lay at the source of most of the subsequent events which Miss Marple had to reconstruct in order to uncover the nature of the unknown crime which Jason Rafiel wanted her to solve.