Francis George Foster (6 November 1848 — 10 December 1931) was an English first-class
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er.
Foster was born at
Havant in December 1848. He made a single appearance in
first-class cricket for
Hampshire against
Derbyshire at
Southampton in 1876. Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed in Hampshire's first innings for 10 runs by William Mycroft, while in their second innings he was dismissed for 2 runs by the same bowler. Foster was a Tanning (leather), tanner in Havant, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. He was active in civic life, being elected to Hampshire County Council upon its foundation in April 1889. In Havant, he was chairman of both the Board of Guardians and of the Local Board, in addition to serving as a Justice_of_the_peace#England_and_Wales, justice of the peace. Foster emigrated to Canada in later life, where he died in December 1931 at Earl Grey, Saskatchewan.
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1848 births
1931 deaths
People from Havant
Cricketers from Hampshire
English cricketers
Hampshire cricketers
Tanners
Members of Hampshire County Council
English justices of the peace
English emigrants to Canada