FOT 
ahaa senbi was ee aust at oh ag where he 
ook his degree of mafter o ‘Ini he was chofen 
praetor of aftronomy, in Gr Gan college, eh. how- 
ever, he religned at the clofe of the fame year; but in 1€41, 
he was re-elected to the fame er and era it during 
his life. He was one of the inftitutors of the aciety, 
which met to cultivate the new ae ee aa ufeful kno 
ledge, oe whic it ould feem, was eftablifhed for the fake 
vert 
religion and politi a 
Royal Society, to which the {cientitic world is under the 
greateft obligations = Fofter died at Grefham college, 
ear 1652. was the author of feveral cohen 
tical pieces, of which the principal are «© The art of 
‘Ufe of the Quadrant, &c.” 
oe by hinfelf » His <« 
to Chunter’ s defcription of flie 
firft appeared as an appendix 
Crofs-ftaff. The greater gia . his works were republifhed 
after his death, carefully corre€ted by his friends 
Twyfden and Mr. Edmund Wingate. i the fame century 
there were two other Fofters diftinguithed as mathemati- 
ye ee Trigonometry by common arithmetic, with- 
out the ufe of Tables, &c.’? Ward’s lives of the pro- 
feffors of Grefham college. 
Foster, in Geography, a townthip of America, in Pro 
vidence county, Khode and, comand § 2457 inhabitants ; 
17 miles rovidence, and 31 N. W. of New 
FOSTER. LAND,a term copied by our Old We iters 
. aie theland given or allotted forthe finding of food or 
s for, monks in certain monafteries or religious 
boats 
FOSTERLE EAN, oo ane pa gifts ; 
much the fame with what we now call jo 
word is Heinally Saxon, and Gates hewn exhi- 
bitio, hati is, a ray eae which the wife has for her mainte- 
nanc Poftea {ciendum ett cui fofterlean pertineat, va- 
diet hoc Brigdunia, & plegient amici fui. 
FOTHER. See Fovper 9 of lead. 
Pid esta reg al in Biography, an oo 
» in the county of York, 
arch 1712, ‘of kee Hh parents, who were 
He was in his child- 
who fent him at a ome o the grammar {chool o 
Frodfham, in ire, where he refided. At this fchool 
i then rem 
age ee familialy, 
ut his attention 
dire ther to general knowledge, ce to the ftud 
of the tan languages, which he regarded little farther 
than as the vehicles or, profitable a ae out the 
amin Bae 
he remo o Edinburgh, where he purfued his ftudies 
with aliens, and graduated on the 13th of Augutft, 
FOT 
1736. He then pe himfelf a phyfician’s pupil at St, 
Thomas’s ae tal i aren the practice of which he 
attended for two years. ter 
ort excurfion to the cen-~ 
tinent with a a a : ‘the recaies of 1740, he returned 
to London, and took up his refidence in White- hart court, 
Gracechurch ftreet, a he continued during the greater 
rt of his life, ye where he eat and eftablifhed both 
Fis fame and his for une, is practice for 
confined chiefly to i lower a of people, fo tha 
often traverfed the outfkirts of the city from Soe till 
night, and returned home without having taken one fee. 
1746, he was admitted a licentiate of the College oF Phy- 
ficians ; and i in aon cy publifhed his ** Account of the 
putrid for ork, ae is {till highly efteemed 
as an ane ones of. mere 1 hiflory, which has ges 
tranflated into almoft e every Europea ap language, and 
which he owed a confiderable extenfion of his practice. He 
was now introduced into the firft families in the metropolis ; 
3 feldom a aera where he was not fought for 
again on fimilar emerg 
“Int 1754, Dr. eee was elected a fay of o Col- 
lege of Phyficians at Edinburgh, and in 1763, milar 
honour was runen ie upon him by the Roa Bancee of 
— on, to whom he had, webster years before, communi- 
fome int te papers, which were a in dif- 
ferent volumes of their Tranfacio ons. e not the 
only academical honours which his great ae precurt for 
ne of the earlieft members of the American 
2 
3 
‘him. He was o 
Philofophical Society ; andin 1776, when a Royal Medical 
Society was inftituted at Paris, Dr. Fothergill was one of 
a feleét number of forei ign i he hates the fociety 
diogel erie to rank among their a 
Dr. Fothergill had very early et a tafte for botan ny» 
which he indulged in proportion as the profits of his practice 
increa ed. For this purpo ofe he purchafed an etftate at 
Upton, in Effex, containing, befides other lands, between 
five and fix acres of garden-ground. 
saocnee feldom undertaken by an in 
ardour that was yifible in the whole of his conduct, 
cured from all parts of the world a at aie of th 
the pa ample build. 
ped 
a 
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pr 
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green-houfe apartments, of nearly 260 feet in length, con- 
tained upwards of 3,400 {pecies of exotics, and in the open 
ground were about 3000 other f{pecies of plants and fhrubs. 
Fothergill were not confined to botany; he ftudied the 
other departments of natural. sual and patronized its 
ingenious cultivators. a very accurate knowledge 
eran cabinet of hells in 
the kingdom, wi 
Portland ; his collection of o 
guifhed for the rarity. rather che the number of the fpeci- 
mens that a aan it ; his pee of infe&ts was extremely 
elegant, and it w olle&tion of corals that the 
1 Seamer ee Ellis delineated his fyftem. 
y Miller was be re and fi 
patronage me br. Fothergill, 
propriety infcribed. Bu 
cancelled, at his exprefs folicitation ; for althou 
pa in encouraging ingenuity, he difliked to be told of 
It; and indeed he was averfe to dedications in general, con- 
‘fidering 
