Showing 21206 results

FORTH, WILLIAM, son of William Forth, Nayland, Suffolk, and Mary, dau. of Richard Barker, Nayland, Suffolk; b.; adm.; KS 1630; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1632, adm. scholar 1633, matr. Easter 1632; migrated to Trinity Hall, adm. scholar 1635; LLB 1638; LLD 1646; Fellow, Trinity Hall, 10 Aug 1639-49; adm. advocate, Doctors’ Commons 29 Jan 1646/7; a Commissioner of Excise; of St. Giles in the Fields, London; m.; buried Highgate, Middlesex 27 May 1671.

FORTUNE, FITZFREDERICK NEWTON BARTON VON BURR, son of Rev. Joseph Fortune, Rector of New Moat, Pembs., and Harriet Sophia, dau. of Maj. Newton Barton Burr, EICS Bombay; b. 17 Aug 1803; at Charterhouse Sch. c. 1810-1; adm. 26 Jun 1811; in school list Oct 1814; Cadet, EICS Bombay 1819; Lieut., 26th Native Infantry 4 May 1820; d. at Ratnagiri, Bombay 2 Dec 1829.

Forward, Francis Charles Miller, son of Francis Edward Forward, F.R.C.S., of Holloway, by Jane Elizabeth Miller, daughter of John Scotland McDonald, of Antigua, Leeward Islands; b. April 7, 1898; adm. Sept. 28, 1911 (A); left July 1915; R. M.C. Sandhurst Jan. 1917; 2nd Lieut. Indian Army Dec. 21, 1917; served in the third Afghanistan campaign N. W. Frontier 1919, in Egypt Jan.- Dec. 1920, and in the Waziristan Campaign N. W. Frontier 1921-2; retired July 1922; adm. a solicitor June 1925; m. April 14, 1923, Irene Brundle, daughter of James Knight Pearce, of Lowestoft, Suffolk.

Forwood, Christopher Robert, son of Stanley Muspratt Forwood of Hampstead and Kitty, d. of Robert Scott of Dumfries; b. 24 Mar. 1911; adm. Jan. 1925 (H); left Apr. 1927; Univ. of Poitiers 1927-8; Intell. Corps 1940-5 (Maj.); HM Foreign Service 1946-56; an importer-exporter San Francisco, retd 1986; m. 18 Dec. 1936 Constance Phyllis Maureen, sister of George Edward Desmond Halahan (qv); d. 28 Aug. 1995.

FOSS, CHARLES HERBERT, eldest son of George Smith, Canterbury Villas, Paddington, Middlesex, and Sophia Mary --- (IGI); b. 14 Jun 1829; adm. 19 Jul 1842; went to King’s Coll. London; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 27 Mar 1846, matr. Mich. 1846; BA 1850; MA 1853; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 29 Apr 1850, called to bar 1 May 1854 (still at bar 1885); assumed surname of Foss in lieu of Smith 20 Nov 1885; m. 27 Aug 1859 Charity May, dau. of John Digenes, Foxley, Sussex; d. 30 Mar 1899.

FOSTER, ----; b.; in school list Feb 1775; left Easter 1775.

FOSTER, ALGERNON CRAWFORD, eldest son of Morgan Hugh Foster CB, Brickhill, Bedfordshire, Principal Financial Officer, HM Treasury, subsequently Governor and Dir. -Gen. Imperial Ottoman Bank, Constantinople, and Mary, dau. of George Flint; b. 1 Dec 1839; adm. 8 Jun 1853 (Scott's); d. unm. in India 26 Aug 1869.

Foster, Arthur Leslie, son of Norman Robert Foster, of Wimbledon, by Mary Leslie, daughter of John Taylor, of Cupar, Fife; b. Nov. 1, 1881; adm. Sept. 27, 1895 (H); left July 1900; Guy's Hospital; M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. 1908; Lieut. R.A.M.C. Feb. 4, 1908; Capt. Aug. 4, 1911; acting Major April 20 - July 30, 1919, and Aug. 1, 1919 - Feb. 3, 1920; Major Feb. 4, 1920; served with the Aden Field Force July 3, 1915 - Oct. 31, 1918; Lieut.-Col. Nov. 25, 1932; Col. Oct. 10, 1936; retired 1936; m. 1st Nov. 14, 1908, Edith Kate, sister of Reginald Sherriff Summerhays (q.v.); 2nd June 9, 1937, Olive Beatrice, only daughter of D. W. Jacobs, of Wrexham, Flint; d. Aug. 16, 1956.

Foster, Harry Gordon, second son of Sir Harry Seymour Foster, M. P., of Pimlico, by Amy, second daughter of John Sparks, of Eastbourne, Sussex; b. July 12, 1884; adm. from Tonbridge School Sept. 24, 1896 (A); left July 1900; a master mariner in the Mercantile Marine; served in R. N. R. in Great War I; d. at Basra, Persian Gulf, Sept. 1, 1922.