| 词条 | Richard Foster (Australian politician) |
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| honorific-prefix = The Honourable | name = Richard Foster | honorific-suffix = | image = Richard Witty Foster.jpg | constituency_MP = Wakefield | parliament = Australian | majority = | predecessor = Frederick Holder | successor = Maurice Collins | term_start = 28 August 1909 | term_end = 17 November 1928 | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1856|8|20}} | birth_place = Goodmanham, Yorkshire, England | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1932|1|5|1856|8|20}} | death_place = St Peters, South Australia | nationality = Australian | spouse = Elizabeth Lees | party = Liberal (1909–17) Nationalist (1917–22) Liberal (1922–25) Nationalist (1925–28) | relations = | children = | residence = | alma_mater = | occupation = Grocer | profession = | religion = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} Richard Witty Foster (20 August 1856 – 5 January 1932)[1] was an Australian politician, a member of the Parliament of Australia. Foster was born in Goodmanham, Pocklington, Yorkshire, England and educated at Prospect House, Tockwith and apprenticed to a draper. He emigrated to South Australia in 1880 and established a business as a grocer and general provider at Quorn. He married Elizabeth Lees in September 1884. He was elected to the Corporate Town of Quorn council in 1887 and was mayor from 1890 to 1892.[1] Political careerOn 19 April 1893, Foster was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly as the member for Newcastle, a seat he held until Newcastle was abolished on 2 May 1902.[2] From 3 May 1902 until 2 November 1906, Foster represented Flinders.[2] He was Commissioner for Public Works from 8 December 1899 to 4 July 1904[2] and Minister for Industry from 1902 to 1904 in the liberal governments of Frederick Holder and John Jenkins. He resigned from the ministry in 1904, but still supported Jenkins until it fell in 1905 and was then Commissioner for Public Works and Minister for Agriculture in the conservative administration of Richard Butler, but lost his seat in 1906.[1] Foster won the seat of Wakefield in the Australian House of Representatives at a 1909 by-election for the Commonwealth Liberal Party. In December 1921, he was appointed Minister for Works and Railways in the Hughes ministry, but was dropped from the ministry in February 1923 by Stanley Bruce. He refused to join the South Australian Country Party and was beaten by its candidate, Maurice Collins in the 1928 elections.[1] Foster died in the Adelaide suburb of St Peters on 5 January 1932, survived by his wife, three daughters and a son.[1] Notes1. ^1 2 3 {{Australian Dictionary of Biography|last=McDonald |first=D. I. |authorlink= |year=1981|id=A080575b|title= Foster, Richard Witty (1856 - 1932) |accessdate=2007-11-09}} {{s-start}}{{s-civ}}{{s-bef | before=John Lord}}{{s-ttl | title=Mayor of Quorn | years=1890–1892 }}{{s-aft | after=John Rock}}{{s-par|au-sa}}{{s-bef | before=Joseph Hancock}}{{s-ttl | title=Member for Newcastle | years=1883-1892 |alongside =Thomas Burgoyne}}{{s-aft|after=Electorate abolished}}{{s-bef | before=William Tennant Mortlock}}{{s-ttl | title=Member for Flinders | years=1902-1906 |alongside = Thomas Burgoyne2. ^1 2 3 {{cite SA-parl |pid=3746 |name=Richard Witty Foster}} David McKenzie}}{{s-aft|after=John Travers}}{{s-off}}{{s-bef | before= Andrew Handyside }}{{s-ttl | title=South Australian Commissioner of Public Works | years= 1899{{spaced ndash}}1904 }}{{s-vac|next=Richard Foster }} |-{{s-vac|last=Richard Foster }}{{s-ttl | title=South Australian Commissioner of Public Works | years= 1905 }}{{s-aft|after=Thomas Price}} |-{{s-par|au}}{{succession box|before=Frederick Holder |title=Member for Wakefield|years=1909 – 1928 |after=Maurice Collins}}{{s-off}}{{succession box|before= William Watt |title= Federal Minister for Works and Railways |years=1921 – 1923 |after=Percy Stewart }}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Foster, Richard Witty}} 13 : Commonwealth Liberal Party members of the Parliament of Australia|Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Australia|Members of the South Australian House of Assembly|Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Wakefield|Members of the Australian House of Representatives|1856 births|1932 deaths|Members of the Cabinet of Australia|English emigrants to Australia|Liberal Party (1922) members of the Parliament of Australia|Australian grocers|20th-century Australian politicians|Mayors of places in South Australia |
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