John Foster

Who is John Foster?

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. 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. 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.