NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Foster, Augustus John, Sir, 1780-1848 NRA: Foster Sir Augustus John (1780-1848) 1st Baronet Diplomat DNB: Foster, Sir Augustus John, first baronet (1780-1848), diplomatist LBT ID: AuFoste1848 VIAF ID: 17470662 LOC ID: n96001506 | B/BAP: 1780-12-04 DIED: 1848-08-01 |
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The second son of Lady Elizabeth Foster, raised in Devonshire House and educated at
Christ Church, Oxford; he worked as a diplomat, courted Annabella Milbanke, and was created
baronet in 1831. | |
REFERENCES TO Sir Augustus John Foster: Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956, In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished
Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper,
afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Chapter VII. Found 1:
¶ n1 Chapter VIII. Found 1:
¶ 2 |