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Foster: (Humfry or Humphye), born at Newport Pagnell, Bucks, demy Magdalen College Oxford 1546, fellow 1548-56; BA; Ma (sup.) 1551-2, regius professor of divinity 1560-89, BD 10/06/1562, DD 13/07/1562 (incorporated at Cambridge 1569); president of Magdalen 1561-89, vice-chancellor 1571-6; rector of Meonstoke, Hants, 1581, dean of Gloucester 1571, and of Winchester 1580, until his death 01/02/1589 ns, aged 63; buried in the college chapel; father of Laurence (matriculated Magdalen 1586), and of Richard, Matthew, and John, 1579. See Ath. i. 557; Lansdowne MS 982 f.155; Cooper, ii. 80; Bloxam, iv. 104: Gutch, i. 329; and DNB.