(9 August 1811 – 19 November 1891) was an English Jesuit Roman Catholic church historian.
Five years later, on the death of his wife Anne, daughter of John Vezard of Gloucestershire, he sought admission as a lay brother into the Society of Jesus.
Urged to enter as a scholastic and to prepare for the priesthood, he said it was Our Lady's wish that he should be a lay brother.
For thirty years he occupied the post of lay brother socius to the English provincial superior.
Foley's bodily austerities were remarkable, while his spirit of prayer led him at all free moments to the chapel.