John Foster, first Baron Oriel

(1740-1828)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Oriel, John Foster, Baron, 1740-1828 NRA: Foster John (1740-1828) Baron Oriel politician DNB: Foster, John, first Baron Oriel (1740–1828), politician LBT ID: LdOriel1 VIAF ID: 18016315 LOC ID: n50082608	B/BAP: 1740-09 DIED: 1828-08-23
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Educated at Trinity College, Dublin he was speaker of the Irish House of Commons and chancellor of the Irish Exchequer; he was made a British peer in 1821.
REFERENCES TO John Foster, first Baron Oriel: Lord Henry Petty to Thomas Creevey, 23 November 1804 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 2 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. I: 1793-1804 Found 1: ¶ n2