William Foster

William Foster (1769-1837) was a successful brewer in St. Neots and the older brother of Ebenezer Foster of Cambridge.  William Foster had recently married Martha Lyon, daughter of William Lyon, both members at St. Andrew’s Street in Cambridge, an event Flower noted in his Intelligencer on 19 October 1799.  Foster was a member of the Particular Baptist church at St. Neots, where John Stevens was the minister.  Both Foster and Stevens were subscribers to the Baptist Missionary Society in 1804-05.  See Church Book: St. Andrew’s Street Baptist Church, Cambridge 1720-1832 (London: Baptist Historical Society, 1991), 165; BMS, Periodical Accounts, 3.137.