Reverend Joseph Foster
(1834-1880)
12 April 1862

Volume 6, page 193, sitting number 7642. 

Born at Fakenham in Norfolk on 9 December 1834, Joseph Foster was the son of Sampson Foster, a banker in Norwich. 

He finished his education at Christ’s College, Cambridge (BA, 1857; MA, 1860). He was ordained a deacon in 1860 and became a priest in 1862. He was the Curate of Lydney, Gloucestershire (1860-62), the Curate of Nailsea, Somerset (1862-65) and the Curate of Greatham, Hampshire (1866-77).  

On 15 May 1862 at St Mary’s in Lydney, Gloucestershire, he married Letitia Frances Philpot, daughter of Reverend Benjamin Philpot. 

The couple appear on the 1871 census living at Greatham in Hampshire with their son Turville Douglas Foster, and four servants. Joseph gave ‘Curate of Greatham, MA’ as his profession. 

Reverend Joseph Foster ‘formerly of Greatham’ died, aged 45, on 3 May 1880 at the Lawn, Holybourne, ‘in the County of Southampton.’ He left an estate valued at £14,000.