ANDEEW FOSTEE-MELLIAE. 



Born IQ.th October, 1841. 

 Died lAth November, 1904. 



The Eev. Andrew Poster-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 Eev.) 

 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 Eedgrave, Suffolk. After some years 

 at Eedgrave, he was curate at Tostock, near Bury 

 St. Edmund's. In 1885 the late Marquis of Bristol 



