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Feasey, David Clifford, son of Arthur Clifford Feasey (qv); b. 20 Sept. 1925; adm. Sept. 1938 (KS); left July 1943; RNVR in WW2 (Sub-Lieut. ); Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1947, BA 1950, MA 1954; Distillers Co. 1950-61; Tube Investments Ltd. 1961-70; marketing dir. Accles & Pollock Ltd. 1970; centre owner Prontaprint 1980-2001; m. 23 May 1957 Margarete Sophia, d. of Otto Picard of Remscheid, Germany; d. 21 Apr. 2002.

FEILDE, EDMUND THOMAS, son of Thomas Feilde (qv); b. 8 Sep 1818; adm. 27 Jun 1831 (Stelfox's); KS 1833; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1837, matr. 5 May 1837, Westminster Student; Cadet, EICS Madras 1840; Ensign, 10th Madras Native Infantry 6 Jan 1841; Lieut., 21 Dec 1842; d. at Kamptee, near Nagpur, India May 1845.

FELL, SAMUEL, son of Hugh Fell, St. Clement Danes, London, citizen and barber-surgeon; bapt. 3 May 1584; adm.; QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1601, matr. 20 Nov 1601, aged 17, Westminster Student to 1616; BA 1605; MA 1608; BD 1615; DD 1619; Proctor 1614; ordained; Prebendary of St. Paul’s from 29 Jan 1612/3; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford 19 May 1619 - Jun 1638; Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, Oxford 5 Jul 1627 - 10 Mar 1637; also Prebendary of Worcester, attached to Professorship, May 1629 - 38; Master of St. Oswald’s Hospital, Worcester, from 1631; Dean of Lichfield 1637-8; Dean of Christ Church 28 Jun 1638 - 2 Mar 1647/8, when deprived by Parliamentary Visitors for “high contempt”; Vice-Chancellor, Oxford Univ., 1645 - 8 Oct 1647, when removed by Visitors; his wife refused to vacate the Deanery and was carried out into the quadrangle in a chair by soldiers and there left with her children; after a short period of imprisonment in London Fell retired to the Rectory of Sunningwell, near Abingdon, Berks., to which he had been appointed 21 Sep 1625; responsible for the construction of the handsome staircase leading to Christ Church Hall; m. 1624 Margaret, dau. of Thomas Wyld, The Commandery, Worcester, by whom he was the father of John Fell, Dean of Christ Church and Bishop of Oxford; d. 2 Feb 1648/9. DNB.

FELLOWS, WALTER, seventh son of Thomas Fellows, Moneyhill House, Rickmansworth, Herts., and Mary, dau. of Thomas Howard, Batchworth Heath; b. 23 Feb 1834; adm. 3 Jun 1847 (Rigaud's); QS 1848; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1852, matr. 3 Jun 1852, Westminster Student 1852-6; BA 1858; MA 1876 (and ad eundem, Melbourne 1877); played cricket for Oxford against Cambridge 1854-7, Gentlemen against Players 1855-7; one of the best fast round-arm bowlers of his day and a slashing hitter; while practising on Christ Church ground in 1856 said to have hit a ball 175 yards (Wisden, 1916, p. 35); ordained deacon 1858, priest 1860 (both Peterborough); Curate successively of Weedon Beck, Northants., Ruislip, Middlesex and Sidmouth, Devon; Incumbent of St. John’s, Toorak, Melbourne, Australia 1863-1900; m. 10 Jun 1863 Julia, second dau. of Rev. Christopher Packe, Vicar of Ruislip, Middlesex, and Minor Canon of St. Paul’s and Windsor; d. at Toorak 23 Jul 1902.

FELTON, JOHN, brother of Henry Felton (qv); b.; adm.; KS 1694; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1699, adm. pens. 20 Jun 1699, aged 18, scholar 12 Apr 1700, matr. 1700; BA 1702/3; MA 1706; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 3 Oct 1705, Major Fellow 12 Apr 1706; signed petition against Bentley 1710; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 22 Oct 1698, called to bar 25 Apr 1706; d. Apr 1735.

FELTON, PHOENIX, only son of John Felton, Bath, Somerset, and Elizabeth ---; bapt. Bath Abbey 31 Oct 1758; adm. 9 Aug 1766; KS (aged 15) 1773; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 23 Dec 1772; drowned while sailing on the Thames between Lambeth and Vauxhall with Richard Warren (qv) and Robert Whitworth (qv), 5 May 1778. Buried in South Cloister, Westminster Abbey.

FENDALL, CHARLES WHITELOCKE, youngest son of Rev. Henry Fendall, Rector of Nunburnholme, Yorks.; b. 27 Apr 1835; adm. 26 Apr 1848 (Scott's); QS 1850; left 1851; emigrated to New Zealand; drowned in the Rangitata, Canterbury, New Zealand 1859.

FENN, JAMES, son of Hugh Fenn, Stratford, Essex; b.; adm.; KS (aged 15) 1656; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxford 1659, matr. 11 Apr 1660, Westminster Student (still 1672); BA 1663; MA 1666; ordained (by 1672); Vicar of St. Margaret’s, Rochester, Kent, 1672/3- 6; Vicar of Goudhurst, Kent, from 8 Nov 1676; d. 1709.

FENTON, GEORGE, son of James Fenton, The Glass House and Loversal, Leeds, Yorks., and Thomasine, sixth dau. of Sir Henry Ibbetson, Bart.; bapt. Rothwell, Yorks. 27 Feb 1795 (IGI); adm. 13 Feb 1806; KS (aged 14) 1809; left 1811; Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 11 Mar 1813; BA 1817; ordained; Vicar of Roystone, Yorks., from 26 Mar 1836; m. 1833 Lydia, youngest dau. of Rev. R. Williamson BD, Skircoat, Halifax, Yorks.; d. 7 Apr 1843.

FENTON, SAMUEL, son of Rev. Timothy Fenton, Rector of St. Peter’s, Nottingham and Prebendary of Southwell, and Martha, widow of Daniel Chadwick (qv), and dau. of Isaac King, Hertford; bapt. 16 Nov 1699; adm. (aged 13) May 1715; KS 1716; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1720, adm. pens. 18 Jun 1720, scholar 21 Apr 1721; 9th in “ordo” 1723/4; BA 1723/4; MA 1728; ordained deacon 5 Jun 1726, priest 25 Sep 1726 (both Lincoln); Curate, Keysoe, Beds., 1726, and Little Staughton, Beds., 1726.