Balthazar Walter Foster, 1st Baron Ilkeston PC FRCP was a British physician and politician.
Walter Foster
"The Ilkeston Division" Foster as caricatured by "Spy" (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, October 1894
Queen's College, Birmingham, a predecessor college of Birmingham University
National Liberal Federation
Videos
The National Liberal Federation was the union of all English and Welsh Liberal Associations. It held an annual conference which was regarded as being representative of the opinion of the party's rank
Walter Foster, 1st Baron Ilkeston
…a strong supporter of Joseph Chamberlain, Foster did not reject Irish Home Rule in 1886 as Chamberlain did. In 1886, he was made President of the National Liberal Federation, where he played a large part in keeping Chamberlain's supporters loyal to William Ewart Gladstone. Foster was unseated by the faggot votes of the duke…
"The Caucus": 1892 caricature of Francis Schnadhorst, Secretary of the National Liberal Federation 1877–93, published in Vanity Fair