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About Vere Foster
Vere Henry Louis Foster was an Anglo-Irish philanthropist, educationalist and free thinker. After following his Irish father into the British diplomatic service, with postings in South America, in Ireland he was moved by the Great Famine to organise relief efforts and to improve the conditions of passage for emigrants. These he, himself, experienced travelling steerage to the United States. Later, he supported national schools in Ireland and was first president of what is today Ireland largest teachers' union the Irish National Teachers' Organisation. He died in Belfast where he had been working for the relief of the sick and the poor.
Everything about Vere Foster →- Occupation
- philanthropist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- 1819
- Died
- 1900