Foster: of Dorset, pleb. Christ Church, matric. 17 Nov., 1609, aged 15, B.A. 20 May, 1613; chaplain All Souls' Coll., M.A. 6 July, 1615 (incorporated at Cambridge 1623), B.D. 6 May, 1626; canon of Christ Church 1632, D.D. 10 May, 1634, licenced to preach 4 June, 1635, regius professor of Hebrew 1626-48, rector of Sarsden, Oxon, 1628, vicar of Pirton, Oxon, 1635; died 21 March, 1647-8, aged 53.