John Foster
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1770 – 1843
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Who was John Foster?
John Foster was an English Baptist minister and essayist.
The son of a weaver, born in Halifax, Yorkshire, and educated for the ministry at the Baptist college in Bristol, Foster served as a minister for a number of years. Becoming a fulltime writer, he contributed nearly 200 articles to the Eclectic Review. His works include Essays, in a Series of Letters, and Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance, in which he urged the necessity of a national system of education.
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