was a Welsh judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1647 and 1660.
[1] Foxwist was born in 1610 in Caernarvon, Wales, the son of Richard Foxwist of Carnarvon and his wife Ellen Thomas daughter of William Thomas of Aber.
He became a barrister, joining Lincoln's Inn in 1636 and being called to the bar in 1645.
[3] In 1647 he was elected Member of Parliament for Carnarvon[4] until he was excluded under Pride's Purge in 1648.
He became judge advocate of the Chester circuit in 1660 and in the same year was elected MP for St Albans in the Convention Parliament.