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FORSTER, RALPH GEORGE ELLIOTT, eldest son of Ralph William Elliott Forster, Gloucester Street, Belgrave Road, London, and of Lincoln’s Inn, barrister, and Frances Joanna, dau. of Rev. William Henry Stone, Canon of Canterbury; b. 4 Jul 1865; adm. (H) 21 Jun 1878; left Dec 1882; entered Foreign Office; student interpreter, Japan 16 Feb 1886; second assistant, 30 Jan 1889, first assistant 8 Aug 1896; acting Consul at various places in Japan 1895-1909; Consul at Honolulu 17 Nov 1909-12, Nagasaki 20 Jul 1912-4; Consul General at Kobe 22 Jan 1914 - Jan 1926; CMG 24 Dec 1923; m. 1 Nov 1897 Louise, eldest dau. of Louis Joubert, Mansourah, Egypt; d. 4 Dec 1931.

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.

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.

Foxlee, Ralph Rudd, brother of Richard William Foxlee (q.v.); b. Sept. 22, 1892; adm. May 2, 1907 (H); left Easter 1910; A.M.I.C.E. 1919; in the service of British Railways; retired 1953; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. R. Anglesey Engineers, Jan. 4, 1916; Lieut.; m. Jan. 15, 1936; Adelaide Isabel Bessie Louisa, daughter of William Edward Hart, of Kilderry, co. Donegal.

Foxlee, Richard William, elder son of William Theodore Foxlee, M.Inst.C.E., of Weybridge, Surrey, by Fanny Elizabeth, daughter of Herbert Tew, of Harrow, Middx; b. May 29, 1885; adm. May 14, 1900 (H); left July 1903; A. M. l. C. E. March 7, 1911; M. l. C. E. Jan. 8, 1929; Deputy Chief Engineer (Civil), Office of the Crown Agents for the Colonies 1928-45; Chief Civil Engineer 1945-9; Engineer-in-Chief and Engg. Advisor to Secy. of State for the Colonies 1949-54; C.B.E. Jan. 1, 1945; C.M.G. Jan. 1, 1953; m. April 2, 1913, Olive Marjorie, elder daughter of F. R. Flintan, of Hersham, Surrey; d. Nov. 27, 1961.

Frankish, William Martin, son of William John Frankish, M.R.C.S., of Chelsea; b. April 30, 1895; adm. May 2, 1907 (H); left Dec. 1912; joined the 28th Batt. London Regt.; 2nd Lieut. April 29, 1918; Lieut. 20th Batt. June 1, 1916; m. Aug. 16, 1922, Queenie Emilie Charlotte, eldest daughter of M.P.C. Byrne; a commercial artist and advertising specialist at Southampton.

Franks, Rudolph Keane, son of Edward Franks, of Tooting, a clerk in the India Office, by Jane Grace, daughter of George Cattermole, R. A.; b. June 7, 1879; adm. April 27, 1893 (H); left April 1896; in the service of the P. & O. Steamship Navigation Co. (Malta and Bombay) 1897-1909; enlisted in the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars (Yeomanry) as a Trooper in Aug. 1914, and went out to the western front in the following month; 2nd Lieut. N. Somerset Yeomanry July 18, 1915; Musketry Instructor 1916; Lieut. July 1, 1917, and Adjutant with the rank of Capt. until demob.; M.B.E. June 3, 1919; at different times a breeder of pedigree dogs in Oxfordshire and Somerset, and an antique dealer at Sulgrave; m. 1st March 11, 1922, Charlotte Margaret, daughter of Major George Holland, V. D., of Birchington, Kent; 2nd June 15, 1943, Marie Kathleen, 2nd daughter of Rev. George Marie Capell, Rector of Passenham, Northants; d. 29 Dec. 1970.

Fraser, Kenneth Gordon, son of John Fraser, of Bromley, Kent, by Rose, daughter of Samuel Frost, of Hardingstone, Northants; b. Sept. 12, 1897; adm. Sept. 28, 1911 (H); left July 1912; m. Jan. 2, 1941, Beatrice Kathleen, daughter of Edward Heathfield, of Faversham, Kent.

Freeman, Denys Franz Andrew Roberson, son of Rev. Andrew James Freeman, Vicar of Standish, Oxon., and Ethel Freeman; b. 22 Jan. 1909; adm. Jan. 1923 (H); left July 1928; Lincoln Coll. Oxf., matric. 1928, BA 1931, MA 1967; successively Principal For. Office (German section), private sec. Air Min., sec. Roy. Radar Establishment Malvern; retd 1969; m. 8 Aug. 1933 Nancy, d. of William Stevens Lee, HM Dover College; d. 19 Oct. 1986.

FREEMAN, JOHN EDWARD, brother of Ernest Carrick Freeman (qv); b. 2 Nov 1865; adm. (H) 15 Jun 1876; left May 1883; d. 26 Feb 1944.