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Foster: son of John of Witchampton, Dorset, doctor; WORCESTER matric. 26 June 1771 aged 16; BA 1775
Assumption that father was CCED ID 105282, although Dorset connection not clear. Why 'instituion' as curate at Highley - he does appear to have been curate to John Fleming, vicar but there are some questions about both men and when they held benefices, when they resigned.
V Langford Oliver in "The History of the Island of Antigua" p 253 gives birth date for Richard in 1754, that he was curate of Eaton under Heywood and that he died 20 Dec. 1819 and was buried there; VCH on the parish of Acton Scott of which his father was sometime rector state that Richard Fleming was curate at Highley and suggests he became vicar there when his father ceded in 1756 (although doubtful that he did so) and Langford Oliver suggests that, like his father, was in prison in Shrewsbury (for debt) which may explain the delay in ordination as priest.