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Augustus Foster

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33: 121:. Augustus had one older brother, Frederick (1777–1853) and an elder sister Elizabeth (b. 1778), who died several days after birth, as well as two illegitimate half-siblings. Augustus's parents separated in 1781, at which time he and his brother remained in the care of his father. 1611: 187: 1606: 1641: 1621: 1351:
Although her brother,George Robert, had succeeded his uncle as 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire in 1804, it was not until 29 September 1832 that a royal order (later to be described as a
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Tinkcom, Margaret Bailey (January 1951). "Caviar Along the Potomac: Sir Augustus John Foster's "Notes on the United States," 1804-1812".
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On 18 March 1815, one year after his arrival in Denmark, he married Albina Jane Hobart. (b. 2 May 1788 d. 28 May 1867) daughter of Hon.
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diplomat and politician. Born into a notable British family, Foster served in a variety of diplomatic functions in
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by Edmund Lodge, Esq, Norroy King of Arms, Second Edition, Saunders and Otley,Conduit Street, 1833.
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as the Secretary to British legation, leaving in 1807 to become British chargé d'affaires,
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Between roughly 1802 and 1804 Foster served as the Secretary to British legation,
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where he would stay from 1824 to 1840. During this time he was knighted by
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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
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Cavendish Harvey (Rev'd) (3rd Bt) (b. 7 May 1817 d. 27 Nov 1890) and
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Frederick George (2nd Bt) (b. 3 January 1816 d. 25 December 1857),
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British minister plenipotentiary to Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia
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would be rediscovered in a cupboard of his family's home in
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The Peerage of the British Empire as at present existing...
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from 1808 to 1810. He was sent back to America in 1811 as
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Foster, Augustus John (1980). Davis, Richard Beale (ed.).
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and his cabinet protesting American incursions in Spanish
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Foster, Augustus John; Davis, Richard Beale (1954).
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Index

Sir Augustus John Foster, 1st Baronet

Christian Albrecht Jensen
GCH
PC
British
continental Europe
United States
Ireland
Drogheda Grammar School
Christ Church, Oxford
Ennis
John Thomas Foster
John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel
William Foster
Elizabeth Hervey
William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire
Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol
George Vere Hobart
George Hobart, 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire
Anne Isabella Milbanke
Baroness Wentworth
Lord Byron
Vere Henry Louis
Naples
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
United States
Stockholm
Sweden
Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States

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