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Edward was born in London on the 16th of October 1787 in the family of Edward Smith Foss, solicitor, and his wife Anne.
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Edward was born in London on the 16th of October 1787 in the family of Edward Smith Foss, solicitor, and his wife Anne.
He was educated under his mother's brother-in-law Dr. Charles Burney. On his retirement from practice in 1840, he devoted himself to the study of legal antiquities.
He was a solicitor by profession and in 1811 he became a partner of his father. In 1822 he became a member of the Inner Temple, but never proceeded further towards a call to the bar. Foss moved to Essex Street, after his father's death, in 1830, and carried on the practice alone until 1840, when he retired. During his professional career he had, owing to his literary tastes and connections, been specially concerned with questions relating to publishers and literary men. In 1827–8 he served the office of under-sheriff of London. He was connected with the Law Life Assurance Society from its foundation in 1823, first as auditor and afterwards as director. Until 1839 he was a secretary to the Society of Guardians of Trade. He assisted in founding the Incorporated Law Society, of which he was president in 1842 and 1843. On retiring from professional practice he devoted himself to collecting materials for the history of the legal profession, which he lent to Lord Campbell for his Lives of the Chancellors. He published in 1843 The Grandeur of the Law, and in 1848 the first two volumes of the Judges of England appeared. The work was at first unsuccessful, but it rose in favour, and became a standard authority. In recognition Lord Langdale, to whom the first two volumes were dedicated, procured for him a grant of the entire series of publications of the Record Commission. The third and fourth volumes appeared in 1851, fifth and sixth in 1857, and seventh, eighth, and ninth in 1864. In 1844 he moved from Streatham to Canterbury, where he became chairman of the magistrates' bench, in 1859 to Dover, and in 1865 to Addiscombe. He died of apoplexy on the 27th of July 1870.
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A member of the Inner Temple, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1822, a member of the council of the Camden Society from 1850 to 1853, and from 1865 to 1870, a member of the Royal Society of Literature from 1837
He married in 1814. His wife was Catherine, eldest daughter of Peter Martineau. They had one son, who died in infancy. In 1844 he got married Maria Elizabeth, eldest daughter of William Hutchins, by whom he had six sons and three daughters. One of his grandsons was the composer, critic, and publisher of music Hubert J. Foss.