Sir Norris Tildasley Foster
CBE (15 December 1855 – 5 December 1925) was an
English barrister
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.
Foster was born in
Bromsgrove
Bromsgrove is a town in Worcestershire, England, about northeast of Worcester and southwest of Birmingham city centre. It had a population of 29,237 in 2001 (39,644 in the wider Bromsgrove/Catshill urban area). Bromsgrove is the main town in the ...
,
Worcestershire. He was educated at
King Edward's School, Birmingham and the
University of Oxford and
called to the bar
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by the
Inner Temple in 1891. He practised in
Birmingham.
During the
First World War he was a member of the Warwickshire County Appeal Tribunal under the
Military Service Act 1916, the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, the Birmingham Local War Pensions Committee, and the General Purposes, Finance and Administration Committee of the War Pensions and Citizens Committee.
He was
knighted
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in the 1920 New Year Honours and appointed
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1920 civilian war honours
for his services to the
Prince of Wales's Fund and his wartime committee work.
Footnotes
References
*Biography, ''
Who Was Who''
1855 births
1925 deaths
English barristers
Knights Bachelor
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
People educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham
Alumni of the University of Oxford
People from Bromsgrove
Members of the Inner Temple
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