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Foster
s. Rich. of Presteign, co. Radnor, pp. Jesus Coll., matric. 3 March, 1664-5, aged 16; B.A. 1668, M.A. 1672 (incorporated at Cambridge 1677), B. and D.D. 1691, became blind as his father before him, master of Abergavenny free school, rector of St. Stephen's, Coleman Street, 1678, lecturer of St. Olave, Southwark, 1684, canon of Westminster 1697, until he died, 29 June, 1715; buried in Westminster Abbey. See Ath. iv. 722; Rawl. i. 215, iii. 376, xxi. 10; Chester's West. Abbey Reg. 283; Lansdowne MS. 987, f. 384; & Foster's Index Eccl.