Education
Eton College.
Eton College.
He was also a designer and inventor of firearms. Umbeyla Campaign The approach to the Crag was very narrow but the lieutenant led his party with great coolness, and was the first man to gain the top of the Crag from his side of the attack. Subsequently, when the commanding officer was wounded, Lieutenant Fosbery assembled a party and pursued the routed enemy, inflicting on them further losses.
In 1895 he patented a design for a self-cocking revolver, which was taken up by the Webley & Scott Revolver & Arms Company.
The Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver was produced as a six-shot.455 caliber and an eight-shot.38 caliber. lieutenant was issued to airmen in the Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War.
Sometime in the late 19th century he invented the Paradox gun. A gun made by Holland & Holland, so named because only the front two inches of the barrel were rifled.
Intended to be used as both rifle and shotgun, capable of firing both shot and conical bullets with accuracy.