John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel

John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel

John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel (1740 – 23 August 1828) was an Irish politician.

He was the son of Anthony Foster of Louth, an Irish judge (son of John Foster of Dunleer, MP for Dunleer). He was elected MP to the Irish House of Commons in 1761, and made his mark in financial and commercial questions, being appointed Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1784. His law giving bounties on the exportation of corn and imposing heavy taxes on its importation is noted by William Lecky as responsible for making Ireland an arable instead of a pasture country. In 1785 he became Speaker of the Irish House of Commons.

He opposed the Union, and ultimately refused to surrender the Speaker's mace, which was kept by his family. He was returned to the united parliament as a member for County Louth, and in 1804 became Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer under Pitt. In 1821 he was created a peer of the United Kingdom as Baron Oriel of Ferrard in the county of Louth, and died on the 23rd of August 1828.

His elder son, John Foster, was MP for Dunleer 1790-92 and dvp before 18 April 1782 [Burke's Peerage 1970] . That John should not be confused with John William Foster, MP for Dunleer [ [http://nq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/citation/156/16/278-b] says "John William Foster,. M.P., for Dunleer, who married 1788,. Rebecca, only child of Hamilton McClure,. Esq., of Dublin, and died 1809, having had .."] .

His wife (d. 1824) had in 1790 been created an Irish peeress, as Baroness Oriel, and in 1797 Viscountess Ferrard; and their younger son, Thomas Henry (1772-1843), who married Viscountess Massereene (in her own right) and took the name of Skeffington, inherited all these titles; the later Viscounts Massereene being their descendants.

One of his first cousins married Elizabeth Hervey, aka Lady Bess Foster, aka Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire.

*1911

References

APW Malcomson: "John Foster: The politics of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy" ISBN 0-19-920087-4 ,504 pages - 1978 Oxford: Oxford University Press

More information

Foster papers Online at the Northern Ireland Public Records Office http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/fosmass.htm


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