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at an early age, inheriting his genealogical faculty from his grandfather, Myles Birket Foster (1785-1861). He published his first genealogical work in 1862, entitled "The
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Index ecclesiasticus, or, Alphabetical lists of all ecclesiastical dignitaries in
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