Philip Staveley Foster (11 July 1865 – 5 March 1933) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
The only son of Abraham Briggs Foster, Philip went to Eton in 1879 and Magdalen College, Oxford in 1884, leaving with a degree three years later. He became a director and later chairman of the alpaca and mohair spinning firm of John Foster and Son of Black Dike Mills, Queensbury, near Bradford, a firm founded by his great-grandfather.
After running for Parliament in 1899 in a by election to the Elland seat in West Yorkshire, he was elected for the constituency of Stratford-on-Avon in 1901, a seat he held until the election of 1906. Re-elected in 1909, he held the seat until its abolition in 1918.
He was also chairman of the Air League, major in the Staffordshire Yeomanry, and chairman of the Midland Automobile Club. A keen angler and farmer, he became High Sheriff of Sussex for 1931.[1] He was married with three children and bought a house in Old Buckhurst, Withyham, where he died in 1933.
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Victor Milward |
Member of Parliament for Stratford-on-Avon 1901–1906 |
Succeeded by Thomas Kincaid-Smith |
| Preceded by Thomas Kincaid-Smith |
Member of Parliament for Stratford-on-Avon 1909–1918 |
Constituency abolished |