Sir Gregory Foster, Bt

Abstract

SIR GREGORY FOSTER, whose death occurred on Sept. 24, at the age of sixty-five years, was a singularly able and devoted worker in the cause of education and of university education in particular. He entered University College, London, as a student in the 'eighties, graduating in 1888. He studied afterwards under ten Brink at Strasbourg, obtaining the degree of Ph.D. He was for some time professor of English at Bedford College, which was then situated in Baker Street, London, and he returned to University College as secretary and lecturer, becoming principal (afterwards provost) of the College in 1900, and holding that appointment until his retirement in 1929. In 1928 he was elected vice-chancellor of the University of London and was re-elected to that office in 1929. The greater part of his life was therefore spent in connexion with University College and the University of London.