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Foster: cler fil. Merton matric 20 Jul. 1654; BA 9 Mar. 1657/8; fellow 1658; MA 21 Jan. 1662/3; (son of Robert V of Leigh, Gloucs. (CCED ID 155035); chaplain to British factory at Aleppo; R of Great Hallingbury, Essex 1692; provost of Trinity College, Dublin 1683-92; declined bishopric of Kilmore 1692; bishop of Rapho 20 Jul. 1701, also dean 2 Sep. 1702; brother of Dennis (CCED ID 50468) and of John (1661) (also cler.); See Gutch MS. 579; Cotton's Fasti Ecc. Hib. iii, 353; Fasti, ii, 199; OHS v, 293; Foster Ind. Eccl. and DNB