William Foster (bishop)

Lord Bishop William Foster (attributed to Hugh Douglas Hamilton).

William Foster, D.D. (3 July 1744 – November 1797) was a Church of Ireland bishop.

The younger son of Anthony Foster, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, and his first wife Elizabeth Burgh, he was chaplain to the Irish House of Commons (1780–89), then successively Bishop of Cork and Ross (1789–1790), Bishop of Kilmore (1790–1796) and Bishop of Clogher (1796–1797).^[1]

Family

Catherina-Letitia, Mrs. William Foster (d.1814) (attributed to Hugh Douglas Hamilton).

He was the younger brother of John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel.

Foster married Catharina-Letitia (died 23 November 1814) daughter of Rev. Dr. Henry Leslie (1719–1803), LLD, of Ballibay, co. Monaghan. (Leslie, a scion of the family of the Earl of Rothes, was Prebend of Tullycorbet and then of Tandragee. His father, Rev. Peter Leslie, was rector of Ahoghill, and had married Jane, daughter of Most Rev. Dr. Anthony Dopping, Bishop of Meath). They had two sons, including John Leslie Foster, and five daughters. He was father-in-law of Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio. He was grandfather of Sir William Foster Stawell, William Fane De Salis and John Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley.

One of his first cousins married Elizabeth Hervey, aka Lady Bess Foster, aka Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire.

Bishops of Kilmore

John Garvey united to Ardagh William Bedell Robert Maxwell united to Ardagh Joseph Story John Cradock Denison Cumberland George Jones William Foster Charles Brodrick George Beresford merged to Kilmore and Ardagh

Bishops of Cork and Cloyne, of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, and of Cork and Ross

Cork & Cloyne	Dominic Tirrey Roger Skiddy Richard Dixon Matthew Sheyn

Cork, Cloyne & Ross	William Lyon John Boyle Richard Boyle

Cork & Ross	William Chappell

Cork, Cloyne & Ross	Michael Boyle Edward Synge

Cork & Ross	Edward Wetenhall Dive Downes Peter Browne Robert Clayton Jemmett Browne Isaac Mann Euseby Cleaver William Foster William Bennet Thomas Stopford Lord John Beresford Thomas St Lawrence Samuel Kyle (became Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross)

Cork, Cloyne & Ross	Samuel Kyle James Wilson William Fitzgerald John Gregg Robert Gregg Edward Meade Charles Dowse William Flewett Robert Hearn George Simms Richard Perdue Samuel Poyntz Robert Warke Paul Colton

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