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FOYSTER, LIONEL ALGERNON (1878-1945)

FOYSTER, LIONEL ALGERNON, Anglican rector, Hardwicke, 1910-18; b. Hastings, Sussex, England, 7 Jan 1878, s/o the Rev. George Alfred Foyster and Adelaide Julia Tillard; m. 1922, Marianne Emily Rebecca Shaw, a native of England; d. Rendlesham, Suffolk, England, 19 Apr 1945.

Lionel A. Foyster was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge (BA 1900, MA 1907), and trained for the ministry at Wells Theological College in Wells, England. Ordained a priest in 1904, he was a curate in Yorkshire and Cheshire before coming to Canada in 1910 to accept appointment as rector of Hardwicke.

Foyster spent eight years at Hardwicke, having pastoral responsibility for the Church of St John the Evangelist at Bay du Vin and the mission church of St James at Hardwicke Village. He was "a man of sound scholarship...and real spiritual power" who also shared cheerfully in the practical work of the parish. To promote Sunday school attendance he rode about with a horse and wagon picking up and delivering children to classes conducted in different homes.

Foyster left the Miramichi in 1918 to be rector of Gordon and Lorne in Victoria County. He was later located in the nearby parish of Drummond. In 1927, he was appointed rector at Sackville, N.B., but after two years, he resigned and returned to England as rector of Borley, in Essex. There is a substantial literature on the rectory at Borley, "the most haunted house in England," and on the role played by the Foysters during their occupancy of it. Information abounds as well on the romantic liaisons and subsequent marriages of Mr. Foyster's wife, Marianne, who was twenty-two years younger than he was.

Sources

[b/m/d] official records / Advocate 6 Jun 1918; Foyster biog. data; Hist. Bay du Vin; Telegraph 29 Jan 1921; World 30 Nov 1910


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