John Foster (priest)

The Very Rev  John William Foster  BEM was an eminent Anglican priest in the second half of the twentieth century.

He was born on 5 August 1921 and served in the Leicestershire Yeomanry from 1939 to 1946. After studying at St Aidan’s College, Birkenhead he was ordained in 1955.^[1] After a curacy in Loughborough he moved to Hong Kong. He was Chaplain to the Hong Kong Defence Force and of the territory's cathedral.^[2] In 1960 he became its Precentor and in 1963 its Dean, a post he held for a decade. He was the Vicar of Lythe from 1973 to 1978; and Dean of Guernsey from then until 1988.

He died on 7 March 2000.^[3]

Church of England titles
Preceded by Barry Dorn Till	Dean of Hong Kong 1963– 1973	Succeeded by Rex Alan Howe
Preceded by Frederick Walter Cogman	Dean of Guernsey 1978– 1988	Succeeded by Jeffery Robert Fenwick

References

^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975 ISBN 0108153476
^ Cathedral web site
^ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 9780199540877

Deans of Guernsey

Thomas Bell • John Brookes Vernon Penfold • Douglas Falkland Carey • Agnew Walter Giles Giffard • Edward Louis Frossard • Frederick Walter Cogman • John William Foster • Jeffery Robert Fenwick • Frederick Marc Trickey • Kenneth Paul Mellor

Office holders in the Diocese of Winchester

The Bishop of Winchester • The Bishop of Southampton • The Bishop of Basingstoke • The Dean of Winchester • The Dean of Guernsey • The Dean of Jersey The Archdeacon of The Channel Islands The Archdeacon of Winchester The Archdeacon of Bournemouth