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Nicholas Foster was an 18th-century Anglican bishop in Ireland.[1]
Foster was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[2] He was nominated Bishop of Killaloe on 7 October 1714;[3] and consecrated on 7 November that year. He was translated to Raphoe by letters patent on 8 June 1716. He died in office on 5 June 1743[4]
A fellow of Trinity College Dublin, he gave money to the College to establish the Bishop Forster Premium prizes for Divinity.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ Fryde, Edmund Boleslav; Greenway, D.E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British chronology. Offices of the Royal Historical Society : University College. p. 405. OCLC 989682481.
- ^ "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860)" Burtchaell,G.D/Sadlier,T.U p300: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
- ^ Moody, T.W.; Martin, F.X.; Byrne, F.J., eds. (1984). A New History of Ireland. A Companion to Irish History, part 2. Vol. 9 Maps, genealogies, lists. Clarendon Press. pp. 409–411. ISBN 0-19-821745-5. OCLC 1152598744.
- ^ Cotton, Henry (1849). Fasti ecclesiae hibernicae : the succession of the prelates and members of the cathedral bodies in Ireland. Vol. 3: The province of Ulster. London: Hodges and Smith. pp. 354–356.
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