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Dodshon Foster

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Portrait of Dodshon Foster by William Tate

Dodshon Foster (1 September 1730[1] - 2 January 1793[2]) was a merchant who profited from the slave trade. He was involved in the shipping of over 700 slaves during his career.[3] His commercial success was assisted by his connection through marriage to the Birket family of merchants; he married Elizabeth, the daughter of Myles Birket.[4]

Foster was the son of a Quaker merchant from Durham. Foster moved to Lancaster and entered into the slave trade in 1752 at the age of 21. His ship was named the Barlborough, and it made several slaving voyages between 1752 and 1758. He served as one of the Lancaster Port Commissioners between 1755 and 1758.[4]

Legacy

Foster had a house and warehouse on St George's Quay next to Lancaster Custom House. In 2005 an anti-slavery memorial commissioned by Lancaster's Slave Trade Art Memorial Project (STAMP) and designed by Kevin Dalton-Johnson was placed on the quayside.[5] The Custom House is now a museum and has a portrait of Foster.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ Digest of Durham Quaker births: index; Joseph Foster (1871) A Pedigree of the Forsters and Fosters of the North of England
  2. ^ "Family of Dodshon Foster". Lancashire County Council.
  3. ^ White, p.63
  4. ^ a b White, p.63.
  5. ^ Historic England. "MARITIME MUSEUM (1289088)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  6. ^ "Mr Dodshon Foster of Lancaster". Lancashire Museums. Retrieved 11 September 2014.

References

  • Andrew White (2003). Lancaster A History. Phillimore & Co. Ltd.
  • Melinda Elder (1992). The slave trade and the economic development of eighteenth- century Lancaster. Ryburn.
  • Melinda Elder. Dodshon Foster of Lancaster and the West Indies (1730–93). Lancaster Maritime Journal, Vol. 1, pp. 14-5.
  • Benjamin S. Beck. "Foster".
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