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Foster: son of Charles of Abbots Ripton, Hunts. cler. (CCED ID 104412), NEW COLLEGE matric. 26 July 1681 aged 17; BA 1685; MA 14 Jan 1688/9; incorp. Cambridge 1695; B & DD 1699; baptised 1 May 1663. Chaplain to the traitor Robert, Earl of Sunderland. R of Boddington, Northants. 1694, and of Brington 1696; canon of Norwich 1691; archdeacon of Norfolk 1698; R of Southmore, Norfolk 1705 and of St James', Westminster 1706; bishop of Norwich 1708-21; bishop of Winchester 1721 until his death 15 Aug. 1723; buried in his cathedral 27th; see Rawl. v. 56; Hearn I, 218 & Foster Ind. Eccles.