The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Foster, Morgan Hugh
b. 1815
d. 1891-06-15
Morgan Hugh Foster joined the Army Pay-Office at Whitehall as a Junior Clerk in 1832 and was promoted to Senior Clerk in the Paymaster
General's Office in 1843.1
He became an accountant in the Treasury in 1855 and was deputed to Vienna to carry out an inquiry into certain transactions connected
with supplies to the Army in the Crimea.2
Returning to the Paymaster-General's Department in 1859, he was appointed Assistant
Paymaster-General.3
While serving in this position, Foster co-authored a report on the financial condition
of the Turkish Empire, was involved with the establishment of the Imperial
Ottoman Bank, and spent three years as Financial Commissioner to India.4
In 1867 he was made a Companion of the Royal Order of the Bath and appointed Principal Financial
Officer to the Treasury, Treasury
Auditor, and Commissioner of Public Accounts.5
After retiring from the Treasury in 1871, Foster became a Governor of the Imperial Ottoman
Bank.6
He died on 15 June 1891 at the age of
seventy-six.7
2. The Royal Kalendar [1856] (London: R. & A. Suttaby, 1856), 165.
http://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t3523dp5b;
Hertslet, The Foreign Office List [1878], 97.
3. The Royal Kalendar [1860] (London: R. & A. Suttaby, 1860), 287.
http://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t9m427g3m;
Hertslet, The Foreign Office List [1878], 97.
4. Hertslet, The Foreign Office List [1878], 97.
5. London Gazette no. 23209 (15 January 1867), 269.
http://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/23209;
Civil Service,Standard (London, England), 1 April 1867, 6;
Hertslet, The Foreign Office List [1878], 97.
6. Hertslet, The Foreign Office List [1878], 97.
7. Deaths,Guardian (London, England), 24 June 1891, 13.