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was also approved. This Bill, which raised the franchise qualification to ten pounds, was the ‘security’ that John Leslie Foster with two of his brothers-in-law, John Henry North and
William Vesey Fitzgerald, had helped to frame and was intended to prevent ‘the freeholder from being the tool of the
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Foster did not stand at the 1830 general election as it had long been agreed by Peel and
Leveson-Gower that, following the abolition of his post as Counsel to the Revenue in January 1828, his claims to promotion were ‘very much superior’ to any others and, following his retirement from politics,
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Ellenborough recorded that ‘Peel told us he had seen Leslie Foster who was for a settlement, but strongly against paying the Roman Catholic clergy. He will therefore support the Bill. … Foster consulting with the cabinet how Catholic emancipation may best be brought
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Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Prussia, the Black Sea and Constantinople before returning to Dublin in September 1803.
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Commons in February 1829) ‘no Orangeman’, he was a persistent opponent to Catholic Emancipation. His speech opposing
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and died while on circuit at Cavan on 10 July 1842.
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received the Royal Assent, Foster's concession, the
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