Michael Foster (1836 - 1907)

Born 8 Mar 1836 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England, United Kingdom

Died 29 Jan 1907 at age 70 in London, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Sir Michael Foster, MD, was a member of the British Parliament, but first and foremost, he was a renowned psychologist. ^[1]. He was born On March 8, 1836 in St. Johns, Huntingdon, England to parents Michael Foster and Mercy Cooper.^[2]

In 1863 he married Georgianna Gregory Edmunds in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. She was the daughter of Cyrus R Edmunds. ^[3]

In 1871, Michael was living in his parents' household, with his own two children Michael 6 and Mercy 3, as well as two sisters, a visitor and 3 servants: a housemaid, a nursemaid and an undergroom. Sadly, his young wife Georgianna had died two years prior. ^[4]

By 1881, he had remarried, a Margaret Sarah Rust, and was living in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire with his two children, two visitors and two servants. ^[5]

He passed away in London on January 29,1907 and is buried in Priory Road Cemetery in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Foster_(physiologist)
2. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CNK3-JY6Z : 18 September 2020), Michael Foster, .
3. ↑ "British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPCV-3DNL : 17 April 2019), Michael Foster, Jun M D, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom; records extracted FamilySearch and images digitized by FindMyPast; citing Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, 8 May 1863, The British Newspaper Archive, Ireland; FHL microfilm .
4. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1871", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KD8J-1W8 : 12 July 2021), Michael Foster in entry for Michael Foster, 1871.
5. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1881," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27C-KMWM : 11 December 2017), Michael Foster, Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, England; from "1881 England, Scotland and Wales Census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing p. 38, Piece/Folio 1662/47, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey; FHL microfilm 101,774,499.
6. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107602169/michael-foster : accessed 05 May 2022), memorial page for Sir Michael Foster (8 Mar 1836–29 Jan 1907), Find a Grave Memorial ID 107602169, citing Priory Road Cemetery, Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire District, Cambridgeshire, England ; Maintained by Find a Grave .

Obituary

(from FindAGrave) Physiologist and Author. He was joint editor with E. Ray Lankester of The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley. His chief writings were a Textbook of Physiology (1876), which became a standard work, and Lectures on the History of Physiology during the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries (1901), which consisted of lectures delivered at the Cooper Medical College, San Francisco, in 1900. He was an elected member of Parliament between 1900-1906, representing the University of London. An avid iris gardener, he was the binomial author of the plant species, Iris lineata Foster ex Regel, which was originally described and published in Gartenflora (1887), and later cited in Curtis's Botanical Magazine (1888). In scientific botanical description, the name Foster is used when referencing this person as the author.