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Foster
s Thomas of Shepperton, Mssx, cler; UNIV m 2/11/1784 aged 18; migrated to EMMANUEL Camb, BD 1811, DD 1822, FSA, headmaster Lichfield GS 1791-1813, PC Hammerwich 1800-42, of Burntwood chapelry 1828-42, R Stawley, Somerset 1814-19, author of ALUMNI ETONIENSIS 1797, edited ERDESWICK'S STAFFORDSHIRE 1819, died 23/12/1842
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Adm. sizar (age 24) at EMMANUEL, Nov. 17, 1789; from University College, Oxford, whence he had matric. (age 17) Nov. 2, 1784. S. of the Rev. Thomas [University College, Oxford, 1747], R. of Shepperton, Middlesex. B. there May, 1767. School, Eton. ' Matric. Michs. 1810; B.D. (Stat. Eliz.) 1811; D.D. 1822. Ord. deacon, 1789. Head Master of Lichfield Grammar School, 1791-1813. P.C. of Hammerwich, Staffs., 1800-42 (with Burntwood chapelry, 1828-42). R. of Stawley, Somerset, 1814-19. F.S.A. Married, Jan. 7, 1793, Maria, dau. of Charles Woodward, of Birmingham, and had issue. Author, miscellaneous; editor of Alumni Etonenses, 1797, and of Erdeswick's Staffordshire, 1819. Strenuously supported Roman Catholic emancipation. Died Dec. 23, 1842, at Lichfield. (Eton Coll. Reg.; Al. Oxon.; Foster, Index Eccles.; D.N.B.; Clergy List; G. Mag., 1843, I. 203.)