Henry Foster (c.1743–1814) was an evangelical clergyman who played a significant part in the religious revival of the late eighteenth century.
Foster was born near Halifax and educated at The Queen's College, Oxford,[1] an institution known for its supply of members from Northern England.
There were few evangelical clergy in London during the late eighteenth century, and it was William Romaine, one of the few who was beneficed in his parish (from 1766), that took the young Foster on as his first assistant curate.
The Revival was being furthered under the itinerant leadership of John Wesley and George Whitefield, both of whom had built private chapels in the metropolis (the Foundry in 1739 and the Tabernacle in 1756 respectively) - but neither of whom had close allies with a parish, until Romaine and Foster.
The final two years of Foster's life were marred by crippling disability which forced him to resign the charge of Long Acre.