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Foster: born at Burton Overy, co. Leicester; studied at Balliol Coll.; B.A. from Lincoln Coll. 18 July, 1530, M.A. 14 Jan., 1532-3, B.Med. sup. 30 May, 1537, B.D. 2 May, 1539, D.D. July, 1540, proctor 1537, incorporated at Cambridge 1554; rector of Lincoln Coll. 1538-55, Margaret professor of divinity 1540-8; rector of St. Nicholas Olave 1541, of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, 1543-58, and of Burton Overy 1547, archdeacon of Cornwall 1547, and of Colchester 1553, and rector of Islip, Oxon, 1554, and of Cliffe-at-Hoo, Kent, 1554, dean of Westminster 1553, and of Windsor 1556, deprived the following year; died in Fleet Street 8 Dec., 1558, buried in the Savoy. See Ath. i. 295; Al. West. 5; Cooper, i. 187; Lansdowne MS. 980, f. 266.