Foster: son of Joseph of Dursley, Gloucs., minister; ST EDMUND HALL matric. 14 Mar. 1672/3 aged 17; BA 1676; MA 1679; B & DD 1700; born Dursley 14 Feb. 1660. East India Co. minister at Poplar 1689 "a member of the Society for the Reformation of Mariners" [sic - more likely 'Manners']; R & V of Newchurch, Kent 1712; C of Maistone where he died 6 Aug. 1712; buried in the chancel there. See Rawl. ii, 110, 278, iii 294; xix 365 & xxi, 227, and Foster Ind. Eccles.
Author of very many moral reformation pamphlets