Mr and Mrs William Foster
(1814-1899 and 1824-1910)
28 July 1862

Volume 8, page 327, sitting number 10,931 and 10,932.

William Orme Foster was the proprietor of the Madeley Court Iron Works in Staffordshire. He lived at Apley Park near Bridgnorth in Shropshire. In 1843 he married Isabella, daughter of Henry Grazebrook Esq. of Liverpool.

At the time of the 1851 census, the couple were living at Hinley House in Staffordshire, with their three young children - Charlotte, William and Isabella - and seven servants, including two grooms. Mrs Foster was 27, so she was born in or about 1824.

From 1857 to 1868 William Foster sat as the Member of Parliament (Liberal) for Staffordshire South.

From 1868, the couple lived at Apley Park on the River Severn, near Bridgnorth in Shropshire.

At the time of the 1891 census, when Mrs Foster was 67, she and her husband were living at Apley Park with their children James (38) and Constance (31). The large house was managed by seventeen live-in servants.

William Orme Foster died, aged 84, at Apley Park on 29 September 1899, leaving an estate valued at £1,000,000, resworn the following year at a staggering £2,587,681.

Mrs Foster died, aged 87, on 17 November 1910 at Woodcote, Newport, Shropshire. Her estate was valued at £71,336.