Life and Correspondence of John Foster Vol 1
Frontispiece and title page from the biography of John Foster, 1770-1843, local Baptist minister.
Author: J. E. Ryland
Date: 1846
Location: Halifax
Format: Biography
Document ID: 100960
Library ID: 2812913X
John Foster was a Baptist minister who was born at Wadsworth Lane near Hebden Bridge and who became a famous essayist. Following a visit to Yorkshire in 1801, he commented negatively on the 'invasion of agriculture and manufacturing establishments' which he felt had destroyed the solemnity, the silence and the romance of the landscape. The 'invasion' to which he referred was the product of the Parliamentary enclosure movement, which divided up the wastes and commons and represented a final phase of moorland reclamation for food production for the expanding population of the industrial towns.
