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Thomas Foster

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ1646101 ↗
Source-derived summary

Thomas or Tom Foster may refer to:

Politics

Thomas Foster (English politician, died 1589), MP for Much Wenlock

Thomas Foster (English politician, died 1765) (c.

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“Thomas Foster” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Thomas, Foster and Wikimedia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1589, 1765—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Thomas, Foster and Wikimedia.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1646101. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1589 and 1765.

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This entry incorporates text from “Thomas Foster” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.