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Foster: tabarder of Queen's Coll. 1533, aged 17, from Kentmere, Westmorland; B.A. 24 Feb., 1539-40, fellow, M.A. 21 March, 1541-2, of Christ Church, 1547, B.D. (sup.) 1549 (s. Edwin or Ewan), the 'apostle of the north,' rector of Thorntonin-le-Moors 1553, vicar of Norton, co. Durham, 1554, rector of Easington, and archdeacon of Durham 1556, rector of Houghton-le-Spring, co. Durham, refused the bishoprick of Carlisle, erected the grammar school at Houghton-le-Spring, where he died 4 March, 1583-4, aged 67; will dated 17 Oct., 1582. See Surtees Society, vol. 38, p. 83; Lansdowne MS. 982, f. 36; Fasti, i. 129; Foster's Index Eccl.; & D.N.B.