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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. He wrote about his American experiences in ''Notes on the United States of America''. ==Early life and family== Foster was born in 1780, possibly in Ireland, and went on to study at Drogheda Grammar School and Christ Church, Oxford. He enjoyed a comfortable social situation; his father was the Irish MP for Ennis, John Thomas Foster (d. 1796), first cousin of John Foster and William Foster, and his mother Elizabeth Hervey, who would later go on to marry William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, was herself the daughter of Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol. Augustus had one older brother, Frederick (1777–1853) and a younger sister Elizabeth (b. 1778), who died several days after birth, as well as two illegitimate half-siblings. Augustus's parents separated in 1781, at which time he and his brother remained in the care of his father. On 18 March 1815, one year after his arrival in Denmark, he married Albina Jane Hobart.〔Although her brother,George Robert, had succeeded his uncle as 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire in 1804, it was not until 29 September 1832 that a royal order (later to be described as a Royal Warrant of Precedence) was issued and Albina and her sisters were each raised to the rank of an earl's daughter, as if their late father had himself succeeded to that dignity and title: 〕 (b. 2 May 1788 〔''The Peerage of the British Empire as at present existing...'' by Edmund Lodge, Esq, Norroy King of Arms, Second Edition, Saunders and Otley,Conduit Street, 1833.〕 d. 28 May 1867) daughter of Hon. George Vere Hobart (b. 1761 d. 5 December 1802), second son of George Hobart, 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire, having previously courted Anne Isabella Milbanke. They would go on to have three sons: * Frederick George (2nd Bt) (b. 3 January 1816 d. unm. 25 December 1857), * Cavendish Harvey (Rev’d) (3rd Bt) (b. 7 May 1817 d. 27 Nov 1890) and * Vere Henry Louis (the philanthropist and educationalist) (b. 25 April 1819 d. 21 December 1900).〔''Journal of Henry McClintock'', transcribed and edited by Pádraig Ó Néill, Published by the County Louth Archeological and Historical Society, 2001.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Augustus Foster」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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