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Richard Foster (other)
Richard Foster may refer to: * Richard Foster (abolitionist) (1826–1901), founder of the Lincoln Institute in Jefferson City, Missouri * Richard Foster (Alaska politician) (1946–2009), Democratic member of the Alaska House of Representatives * Richard Foster (architect) (1919–2002), American modernist architect * Richard Foster (Australian footballer), Australian rules footballer * Richard Witty Foster (1856–1932), Australian politician * Richard Foster (Royal Marines officer) (1879–1965) * Richard Foster (Scottish footballer) (born 1985), Scottish football player * Richard Foster (painter) (born 1945), British portrait painter * Richard Foster (theologian) (fl. 2000s), Quaker religious leader and author * Richard N. Foster (born 1941), managing partner, Foster Health Partners * Richard Foster (philanthropist) (1822–1910), City of London merchant * Richard Foster, a pen name of Kendell Foster Crossen (1910–1981), American writer Characters * Richard Foster (''The Wa ...
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Richard Foster (abolitionist)
Richard Baxter Foster (October 25, 1826 – March 30, 1901) was an American abolitionist, Union Army officer, and initial head of a college for African Americans in Jefferson City, Missouri. During the American Civil War, Foster volunteered to be an officer for the 1st Missouri Regiment of Colored Infantry regiment of the U.S. Army, largely recruited in Missouri, and helped set up educational program for its soldiers. In 1866 Foster headed the new college in Jefferson City, the Lincoln Institute, with financial support from his former regiment. The college is now named Lincoln University. Early life and education Foster was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, on October 25, 1826, to Richard and Irene Bourroughs Foster. He was educated in Congregationalist schools, including Henniker Academy, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1851. Activism After college, Foster moved to Illinois and then to Iowa and taught in schools for African Americans. In 1856, he joined abolitionist John ...
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Richard Foster (Alaska Politician)
Neal Richard Foster (August 9, 1946 – October 13, 2009) was a Democratic member of the Alaska House of Representatives, representing various districts centered on Nome, Alaska from 1989 until his death. Though a Democrat, he frequently caucused with the Republicans and served for a period of time as the Majority Whip. He died of a heart attack while receiving treatment for kidney disease. His oldest son, Neal Foster, was appointed to replace him, and was elected to his own term in 2010. At the time of his death, he was the second longest-serving member in the history of the Alaska House, behind Carl Moses, who also represented western Alaska (Max Gruenberg surpassed his tenure in October 2015). He was also a second-generation member of the Alaska Legislature; his father, Neal W. "Willie" Foster (1916-1979), served one term apiece in the Alaska Senate representing Nome before and following statehood. See also * List of Native American politicians This is a list of ...
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Richard Foster (architect)
Richard T. Foster (March 21, 1919 – September 13, 2002.) was a modernist architect who worked in the New York City area, and also around Greenwich, Connecticut. Foster is best known for his collaborations with architect Philip Johnson. Life Foster was born in Pittsburgh and educated at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture, graduated in 1950, and was hired into Philip Johnson's office directly out of school. Foster worked on the designs in Johnson's office of the 1950s, notably the Glass House located in New Canaan, Connecticut. Foster left in 1962 to form his own firm, Richard Foster Associates, but as an independent architect returned to work on major projects with Johnson into the 1970s. His own designs included the Round House, a circular rotating house in Wilton, Connecticut, published in ''Popular Mechanics'' in 1968. Foster continued to work and live in Wilton until his death in 2002. Work Foster's work includes: * New York State Pavilion at the 1964 New Y ...
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Richard Foster (Australian Footballer)
Richard Foster was an Australian rules footballer for the Port Adelaide Football Club. In 2014 he began coaching the Freeling Football Club, departing the club midway through 2015. References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Port Adelaide Football Club (SANFL) players Port Adelaide Football Club players (all competitions) Australian rules footballers from South Australia {{AFL-bio-1960s-stub ...
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Richard Witty Foster
Richard Witty Foster (20 August 1856 – 5 January 1932) was an Australian politician. He began his career in the Parliament of South Australia (1893–1906) and served two terms as Commissioner of Public Works in liberal and conservative governments. He was elected to federal parliament in 1909 as a Liberal, later joining the Nationalists. He was Minister for Works and Railways (1921–1923) under Prime Minister Billy Hughes, eventually losing his seat at the 1928 election. Early life Foster was born in Goodmanham, Pocklington, Yorkshire, England and educated at Prospect House, Tockwith and apprenticed to a draper. He emigrated to South Australia in 1880 and established a business as a grocer and general provider at Quorn. He married Elizabeth Lees in September 1884. He was elected to the Corporate Town of Quorn council in 1887 and was mayor from 1890 to 1892. South Australian politics On 19 April 1893, Foster was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly as the m ...
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Richard Foster (Royal Marines Officer)
General Sir Richard Foster Carter Foster, (27 January 1879 – 3 April 1965) was a Royal Marines officer who served as Adjutant-General Royal Marines and later as colonel of the East Surrey Regiment. Biography Born on 27 January 1879, Foster grew up and was educated at Stubbington House School, a boys' preparatory school near Fareham in Hampshire, where his grandfather and father, and later his brother, served as headmaster. The school specialised in preparing pupils for armed forces officer entrance examinations, particularly for the Royal Navy. Foster was commissioned into the Royal Marine Artillery in September 1897. In the next few years he held a number posts, including adjutant of the Royal Carmarthen Artillery (Militia) from 1905 to 1908. He attended the army Staff College, Camberley, from 1912 to 1913. During the First World War Foster held a number of staff appointments, both at home and on the Western Front. He became a temporary lieutenant colonel in September ...
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Richard Foster (Scottish Footballer)
Richard Martyn Foster (born 31 July 1985) is a Scottish footballer. He previously played for Aberdeen, Rangers, Bristol City, St Johnstone, Ross County, Partick Thistle, and Detroit City. Foster primarily plays as a right back, although he is a versatile player; goalkeeper is the only position in which he has never played. In May 2018, Foster married Scottish singer Amy Macdonald. Early life Foster was born in Elgin, Moray to Martyn and Carol Foster (née Cruickshank). He was a Rangers fan as a boy. Club career Aberdeen Foster made his debut for Aberdeen aged 17 on 10 May 2003 in a Scottish Premier League match against Partick Thistle, coming on as a substitute for Darren Mackie. He scored his first goal for the club almost exactly a year later during a 2–1 league defeat to Dundee on 15 May 2004. Foster became a first team regular under Jimmy Calderwood and signed a two-year contract extension on 31 July 2007. Although naturally a right winger, Foster made signifi ...
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Richard Foster (painter)
Richard Foster (born 1945) is a British painter, principally of portraits. Life Foster was born in East Lexham, Norfolk and educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Oxford with further artistic training at Studio Simi, Florence and the City and Guilds of London Institute. Foster has been a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters since 1976 and President since 2017. Furthermore, he served as Vice-President from 1991 to 1994 and Treasurer from 2003 to 2006. Foster has also acted as a member of the Art Workers Guild since 1980. Over his career, he has tried to be as diverse as possible and has painted a great variety of pictures in both oil and watercolour, not just single portraits and groups, but also landscapes and compositions which he exhibits at his one-man shows every three or four years . List of works * Portrait of Ed Coode- Girton College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire * Portrait of Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount- Kedleston Hall, Kedleston, Derbyshire * Por ...
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Richard Foster (theologian)
Richard James Foster (born 1942) is a Christian theologian and author in the Quaker tradition. His writings speak to a broad Christian audience. Born in 1942 in New Mexico, Foster has been a professor at Friends University and pastor of Evangelical Friends churches. Foster resides in Denver, Colorado. He earned his undergraduate degree at George Fox University in Oregon and his Doctor of Pastoral Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, and received an honorary doctorate from Houghton College. Foster is best known for his 1978 book Celebration of Discipline', which examines the inward disciplines of prayer, fasting, meditation, and study in the Christian life, the outward disciplines of simplicity, solitude, submission, and service, and the corporate disciplines of confession, worship, guidance, and celebration. It has sold over one million copies. It was named by ''Christianity Today'' as one of the top ten books of the twentieth century. A work described as a sequel to ''Cele ...
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Richard N
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", "Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * Ri ...
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Richard Foster (philanthropist)
Richard Foster (14 September 1822–23 December 1910) was a well-to-do City of London merchant who spent considerable sums of his own money on sociable charitable purposes, such as enabling the building of new Anglican churches in London. Three particularly complete examples can be found in Walthamstow, specifically: St Barnabas Walthamstow (1903; arch. W.D. Caroe), St Michael and All Angels Walthamstow (1885; arch. J. M. Bignell).''Joseph Maltby Bignell alone in Walthamstow''
blog post by Andrew Pink (2017). Online resource accessed 18 July 2018 and St Saviour Walthamstow (1874; arch. T. F. Dolman).'Walthamstow: Churches'
in ''A Histo ...
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Kendell Foster Crossen
Kendell Foster Crossen (July 25, 1910 – November 29, 1981) was an American pulp fiction and science fiction writer. He was the creator and writer of stories about the Green Lama (a pulp and comic book hero) and the Milo March detective and spy novels. His pen names included Richard Foster, Bennett Barlay, Kent Richards and Clay Richards, Christopher Monig (the name of the ghost of the town of Crossen on the Oder), and M.E. Chaber (from the Hebrew word ''mechaber'', meaning author). Some bylines use the abbreviated name Ken Crossen. Biography Kendell Foster Crossen was born in Albany, Ohio (outside Athens), the only child of farmers Sam Crossen and Clo Foster Crossen. He attended Rio Grande College in Ohio on a football scholarship. He was an amateur boxer and worked at jobs ranging from carnival barker to insurance investigator. In the 1930s he was employed as a writer on Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects, including a ''New York City Guidebook'', before becoming edi ...
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