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FOSTER, HEDLEY TURNER PLIMSAUL, son of Joseph W. Foster, Hogarth Road, London, solicitor; b. 13 Aug 1863; adm. (G) 27 Jan 1876; left Dec 1879; adm. solicitor Apr 1886; practised in Gracechurch Street, London, and Great Marlow, Bucks.; m. Frances ---; d. 9 Apr 1898.

Foster, John Birkhead, son of Joshua James Foster, of Upper Tooting, by Bertha Woodman, daughter of George Carter, of Lewknor, co. Oxon.; b. Jan. 21, 1894; adm. May 2, 1907 (A); left July 1912; Caius Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1912; B.A. 1915; branch sec. of the Agricultural Organization Society 1916-21; organizing sec. National Farmers Union 1921-36; president of the London Natural History Society 1939; m. Sept. 3, 1932, Oonah Elizabeth, daughter of William Geoghegan, M.B.E., of Wimbledon; d. 1970.

FOSTER, JOHN EDWARD; b. 13 Nov 1804; adm. 12 Feb 1816.

Foster, Norman Leslie, son of Arthur Leslie Foster (qv); b. 26 Aug. 1909; adm. Apr. 1923 (R); left Dec. 1927; RMA Woolwich 1928-9; 2nd Lieut. RA Aug. 1929, Lieut. Aug. 1932. Capt. Aug. 1938, Maj. July 1946, Lieut.-Col. Apr. 1952, Col. Dec. 1954, Brigadier Dec. 1958, Maj.-Gen. 1959; psc 1940, jssc 1947; served 1939-45 in Egypt and Italy; despatches (Africa) Apr. 1944; DSO (Italy) June 1945; CRA 11 Armoured Divn 1955-6; Imp. Defence Coll 1957; dep. Mili­tary Sec. War Office 1958-9; GOC Roy. Nigerian Army 1959-62; CB June 1961; pres. Regular Commissions Board 1962-5; retd 1965; Col. Commandant Roy. Regt of Artillery 1966-74; security adviser Civil Service Dept 1974-9; chairman Truman & Knightley Educauonal Trust 1977-80, pres. 1982-7; m. 20 July 1937 Joan Constance, d. of Rev. Thomas William Ernest Drury, Canon and Precentor of St Patrick, Dublin; d. 3 Jan. 1995.

Foster, Stanley Philip John, son of Stanley Charles Foster, civil servant, and Jessie Ellen Foster; b. 10 Nov. 1911; adm. Sept. 1925 (R); left July 1929; RA in WW2 (Capt.); Westland Helicopters, Yeovil, 1968-76; m. 5 Sept. 1936 Gwyneth Beryl, d. of Burford Congdon of Purley, Surrey; d. 6 Dec. 1979.

FOSTER, THOMAS, son of Thomas Foster, Herts. ; b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 16) 1629 (Bodleian Library, Tanner MSS, lxix, f. 224).

FOTHERBY, EDMUND, son of Sir John Fotherby, Kt, Barham, Kent, and Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Anthony Cooke, Kt, Gidea Hall, near Romford, Essex; b.; adm.; KS 1642; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1645, adm. pens. 4 Jun 1645, scholar 1645, matr. Easter 1648; BA 1648/9; MA 1652; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1651 - c. 1660; ordained; Vicar of Gainford, co. Durham, from 16 Jan 1659/60; m.; d. 12 Mar 1700/1, aged 76.

FOTHERGILL, MARMADUKE, eldest son of Rev. Marmaduke Fothergill, Marsham Street, Westminster, nonjuring clergyman, previously Vicar of Skipwith, Yorkshire, and Dorothy, dau. of John Dickson, Pontefract, Yorks., attorney; bapt. 28 Apr 1714; adm. (aged 6) Jun 1720; in school list 1729; Hearne states in a note of 30 Aug 1728 that Fothergill had been at the School “8 years” and “is now two terms standing in the Temple, and is intended for a barrister” (Remarks and Collections, x, 43); adm. Inner Temple 27 Apr 1728, left 1736; d. 13 Aug 1778.