Foster: son of George of Shalford, Surrey; ('Juramentum non suscepit') subscribed 09/05/1617; demy Magdalen College Oxford 1614-19, BA 17/10/1617, Fellow 1619-32, MA 01/07/1620 (incorporated at Cambridge 1622), BD 12/05/1631, proctor 1630; vicar of Selborne 04/08/1631, admon. (at Oxford) 10/05/1632. Old DNB confused him with the visitors' deputy registrar of the same name, who died 26/10/1676.