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Foster: born at Wakefield; B.A. from Magdalen Coll. 18 March, 1520-1, M.A. 6 July, 1525, fellow 1531, B.D. supd. Dec., 1539, master of Magdalen College school 1526-34, canon of Lincoln 1531, rector of Sherrington St. Laud, Bucks, after 1529, and of Bladon, Oxon, 1541, treasurer of Salisbury cathedral 1540-8, archdeacon of Leicester 1541-60, vicar of Wakefield 1546, prebendary of St. Stephen's, Westminster; one of the compilers of the Liturgy or Common Prayer; dean of Durham 1557, ejected 1559. See Ath. i. 320; Bloxam, iii. 81; Lansdowne MS. 980, ff. 318, 324.