Thomas Campbell Foster
Thomas Campbell Foster (1813 - 1 July 1882) was an English barrister and writer on law, shorthand and Ireland.[1] His notable cases included leading the defence of Mary Ann Cotton in 1873 and the prosecution of Charles Peace at Leeds Assizes in 1879.
Life
[edit]Born in Leeds to John Foster, he was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1846 and practised on the northern circuit of England, before moving to the north-eastern one after the circuits were sub-divided.[2][1] He stood as a candidate for Sheffield constituency in 1865 as a "determined personal opponent" of John Arthur Roebuck (one of its two existing MPs) but coming last out of four.[2] He was appointed revising barrister for the boroughs of the West Riding in 1868, a post he held for seven years until his appointments as bencher of Middle Temple and Queen's Counsel.[1] In 1874 he was made recorder of Warwick. He died at Orsett Terrace, Hyde Park after a long illness of the glands which had led him to retire from his circuit duties.[1][2]
Works
[edit]- Plain Instructions for the Attainment of an Improved, Complete, and Practical System of Shorthand, 1838.
- Letters on the Condition of the People of Ireland. Reprinted, with additions, from the “Times,” 1846
- A Review of the Law relating to Marriages within the Prohibited Degrees of Affinity, and of the Canons and Social Considerations by which that Law is supposed to be Justified, 1847
- A Treatise on the Writ of Scire Facias, 1851
- Reports of Cases decided at Nisi Prius and at the Crown Side on Circuit, and Select Decisions at Chambers (with N. F. Finlason), 1858–1867.
References
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Foster, Thomas Campbell". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.