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Foster: of London, pleb., UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, matric. entry under date 10 Jan. 1574/5 aged 19; exhibitioner 1571; BA 5 Jul. 1575; MA 4 Jul. 1578; fellow ALL SOULS' 1580; perhaps incorp. at Cambridge 1581; proctor 1586; BD 21 Mar. 1589/90; DD 8 Jul. 1602; admitted to Merchant Taylors' Sch. 3 Mar. 1563/4; (son of Giles, a grocer, deceased); one of the translators of the Bible; chaplain to the Queen; canon residentiary Hereford 1584; R of Pembridge, Herefs., 1592; dean of Windsor 1602 and registrar of the garter; Bishop of Gloucester 1611 until his death 14 Jun. 1612; see Ath. ii, 850; Robinson i, 5; Lansdowne MS 9983.f.197; Foster Ind. Eccles. Oxford DNB