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FAWKET, JAMES; b.; adm.; KS 1670; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1673, adm. pens. 29 May 1673, scholar 1674; BA 1676/7; MA 1680; Fellow, Trinity Coll., 1679 - c. 1681; ordained priest (London) 2 Sep 1681; author, An Account of the Life and Death of the Rev. George Seignior (qv), 1682. [Presumably James Fawkett, bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 26 Aug 1655, son of George Fawkett, and Jane --- (IGI)]

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.