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Foster: f Devon, gent. New Coll., matric. entry under date 1572, aged 18, scholar 1575, fellow 1577-85, from Wykeham's school, Winchester, B.A. 16 Oct., 1579, M.A. 1 June, 1583, B. and D.D. 4 July, 1594, as Tucker; (2s. William), born in Exeter; canon of Exeter 1580, archdeacon of Barnstaple 1585, rector of Kilkhampton, Cornwall, 1584, chaplain to Q. Elizabeth, and prebendary of Sarum 1588, rector of West Dean, Wilts, 1588-1621, of Clovelly, Devon, 1590-1601, dean of Lichfield 1605, until his death at Salisbury 19 March, 1620-1; father of Robert 1611. See Ath. ii. 288; Lansdowne MSS. 983, f. 366; 984, f. 5