ANDREW FOSTER-MELLIAR. 
Born 12th October, 1841. 
Died 14th November, 1904. 
THE Rev. Andrew Foster-Melliar was the 
youngest son of the late Andrew Foster-Melliar, 
of Galhampton, Doulting and Wells, Somerset. 
Originally intended for one of the colonial Civil 
Services, he seems to have drifted, more by accident 
than design, into the Church. He was educated 
at Streatham Academy, Uppingham (under the 
famous Thring) and New College, Oxford. After 
leaving Oxford, he went to Wells Theological 
College, and was the first married student that ever 
studied there. 
It was because of an acquaintance made at Wells 
that he became for the rest of his life identified with 
Suffolk; he had never been in the county until 
he began his first curacy there. Mr. (now the Rev.) 
Holt Wilson was at Wells College at the same time 
as Mr. Foster-Melliar, and it was through his 
influence that Mr. Foster-Melliar was offered the 
curacy of Redgrave, Suffolk. After some years 
at Redgrave, he was curate at Tostock, near Bury 
St. Edmund’s. In 1885 the late Marquis of Bristol 
