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Career. Later life. Ancestry. Works. References. External links. Footnotes. Augustus Foster. Portrait by Christian Albrecht Jensen (1825). Sir Augustus John Foster, 1st Baronet, GCH PC (1 or 4 December 1780 – 1 August 1848) was a British diplomat and politician.
Augustus John Foster was a very unusual man and his book the Notes on America was a very unusual book. Foster came to Washington in December 1804, when he was twenty-four as British Secretary of Legation. After three years and some months he went back to Europe, but returned in the Spring of 1811, when he was only thirty, as His Britannic ...
Given as Augustus Forster in the compensation records, but more usually spelt Foster, awarded the compensation for the enslaved people on Gray's Inn Castle in St George Jamaica with his brother Edmund Forster or Foster, Charles John Bloxham and William Elmslie (all of whom q.v.) after counterclaiming against the executors and trustees of John ...
Sir Augustus John Foster, 1st Baronet, GCH PC (1 or 4 December 1780 – 1 August 1848) was a British diplomat and politician. Born into a notable British family, Foster served in a variety of diplomatic functions in continental Europe and the United States, interrupted by a short stint as a Member of Parliament.
Sir Augustus John Foster, 1st Baronet, GCH, PC (1 or 4 December 1780 – 1 August 1848) was a British diplomat and politician. Born into a notable British family, Foster served in a variety of diplomatic functions in continental Europe and the United States , interrupted by a short stint as a Member of Parliament.
The papers of Sir Augustus John Foster (1780-1848) span the years 1794-1844. The papers are divided into three series: Correspondence, Diaries, and a narrative of observations by Foster entitled “Notes on the United States of America.”
Sir Augustus John Foster papers, Summary. Volumes containing correspondence, diaries, and writings chiefly concerning Foster's assignment as a British diplomat to the United States prior to the War of 1812, and to two present-day cities of Italy, Naples (Kingdom of the Two Sicilies), circa 1802-1804, and Turin (Kingdom of Sardinia), 1824-1840.
