Thomas Campbell Foster (1813 - 1 July 1882) was an English barrister and writer on law, shorthand and Ireland.
[1] His notable cases included leading the defence of Mary Ann Cotton in 1873 and the prosecution of Charles Peace at Leeds Assizes in 1879.
Born in Leeds to John Foster, he was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1846 and practised on the northern circuit of England, before moving to the north-eastern one after the circuits were sub-divided.
[2][1] He stood as a candidate for Sheffield constituency in 1865 as a "determined personal opponent" of John Arthur Roebuck (one of its two existing MPs) but coming last out of four.
He died at Orsett Terrace, Hyde Park after a long illness of the glands which had led him to retire from his circuit duties.