Dodshon Foster

Dodshon Foster (1 September 1730[1] - 2 January 1793[2]) was an English merchant who profited from the slave trade.

[3] His commercial success was assisted by his connection through marriage to the Birket family of merchants; he married Elizabeth, the daughter of Myles Birket.

Foster moved to Lancaster and entered into the slave trade in 1752 at the age of 21.

His ship was named the Barlborough, and it made several slaving voyages between 1752 and 1758.

In 2005, an anti-slavery memorial commissioned by Lancaster's Slave Trade Art Memorial Project (STAMP) and designed by Kevin Dalton-Johnson was placed on the quayside.