Dr Charles Edward Foister FRSE (17 August 1903 – 23 July 1989) was a British botanist and plant pathologist.
[1] He was born in Cambridge in England on 17 August 1903, the son of Frederick W Foister and his wife Esther Elizabeth Smith.
[2] He was educated locally and won a place at the University of Cambridge graduating with a BA in 1925.
[3] He was employed as a plant pathologist in eastern Edinburgh for all of his working life.
His proposers were Sir William Wright Smith, Stephen J Watson, Malcolm Wilson and Alexander Nelson.