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Foster: son of John, dean of St Paul's DD; student of Christ Church, 1622, BA 22/06/1626, MA 07/07/1629, LLD Padua, incorp. 30/06/1638, 'an atheistical wit', vicar of Tillingham 1631, and rector of High Roding, Essex, 1638, of Polebrooke and of Ufford, Northants, 1639, and of Fulbeck, Lincs, 1630; buried St Paul's Covent Garden 03/02/1662. See Add. MS 15,671 p. 189; Fasti, i. 503; Alumni West, 91; and DNB.
SEE OXFORD DNB: John Donne, the younger (16041662/3), author and literary executor