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FEILDING, BASIL, 6TH EARL OF DENBIGH, only son of William Feilding, 5th Earl of Denbigh, and Isabella, dau. of Peter de Jonge, Utrecht, Netherlands; b. 3 Jan 1719; adm. Jun 1728; left 1730; styled Viscount Feilding to 1755; succ. father as 6th Earl of Denbigh 2 Aug 1755; Privy Councillor 9 Feb 1760; Master of the Harriers and Foxhounds 24 Jan 1761 - office abolished 11 Jul 1782; Cup-bearer at coronation of George III 22 Sep 1761; a Lord of the Bedchamber from 9 Apr 1763; Col., Warwickshire Militia (occurs 1760-74-); m. 1st, 12 Apr 1757 Mary, third dau. of Sir John Bruce Cotton, Bart.; m. 2nd, 21 Jul 1783 Sarah, widow of Sir Charles Halford, Bart., and dau. of Edward Farnham, Quorndon House, Leics.; d. 14 Jul 1800.

Feiling, Geoffrey Severin Anthony, son of Anthony Feiling MD FRCP, Vice-Pres. Roy. Soc. of Medicine, and Helga Isabel Hope OBE, sister of Geoffrey Severin Anthony Hawkins (qv); b. 6 Oct. 1920; adm. Sept. 1933 (A); left July 1938; Corpus Christi Coll. Camb., matric. 1938; The Queen's Regt 1941, transf. to Bombay Grenadiers IA (Lieut.-CoL); called to the Bar (Lincoln's Inn) June 1953; Principal Rosario English Sch. Argentina 1960; m. 1st 28 Apr. 1951 Eva Veronika, d. of Viktor Varga of London; 2nd 20 Jan. 1960 Elsa Raquel, d. of Juan Eduardo Gleeson of Buenos Aires; d. 19 July 2005.

Felix-Jones, Ivor, son of Frederick Felix-Jones, M.R.C.S., of Llantfyllin, by Ada Louisa, daughter of Hiram Codd, of Brixton; b. June 2, 1899; adm. April 30, 1914 (A); left Dec. 1916; served with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers during Great War I and was severely wounded in France Oct. 6, 1918; Trin. Hall, Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1919; B.A. 1921; M.A. 1925; Superintendent of the Education Service of N. Nigeria 1922-3; assist. master at Campbell Coll., Belfast; Inspector of Schools, Hong Kong, 1955; 2nd Lieut., R. Welsh Fusiliers, Nov. 18, 1940; Capt.

FELL, ABRAHAM; b.; in school list Dec 1736. [This seems to be an error for John Fell]

Fell, John; Bishop of Oxford and Dean of Christ Church, Oxford. Eldest son of Samuel Fell (qv) ; b. 23 Jun 1625 ; educ. Lord Williams’s School, Thame, and Christ Church, Oxford, Canoneer Student 25 May 1637 – expelled by the Parliamentary Visitors 15 May 1648 ; BA 1640 ; MA 1643 ; DD 1660 ; served as Ensign in Royalist garrison, Oxford ; ordained 1647 ; one of the group of clergy who regularly performed Church of England services in Oxford during the Commonwealth ; Canon of Christ Church 27 Jul 1660 – Nov 1660, Dean of Christ Church from 27 Nov 1660 ; Prebendary of Chichester 18 Aug 1660 – res Jan 1661/2 ; Vice-Chancellor, Oxford Univ. 1666-9 ; consecrated Bishop of Oxford 6 Feb 1675/6 ; Chaplain to Charles II ; raised the finance for new buildings at Christ Church, including Tom’s Tower designed by Sir Christopher Wren ; presented valuable type matrices to the University Press 1666 and established the first regular University type foundry 1667 ; author of biographies of Henry Hammond and of Thomas Fuller, and of editions of Suetonius and of Clement ; d.unm. 10 Jul 1686. ODNB.
In 1685 he provided £327 5s 6d out of a total of £527 5s 6d of the cost of purchase, jointly with Richard Hill (elected to Oxford 1640, qv), of certain fee farm rents. These were conveyed on trust to pay £20 to a reader of prayers in some parish church in the city of Oxford, and the residue to the Westminster Students of Christ Church.
According to E.G.W.Bill, Education at Christ Church Oxford 1660-1800, 1988, p.103 n.1, “The Fell and Hill Trust was established in 1685 for the benefit of two Westminster Students. The first appointments were not made until 1714 and the exhibitions were only worth £2-£3 a year”.

FELL, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 9) May 1733; left 1739. [Perhaps John Fell, Gray’s Inn, gent., adm. Gray’s Inn 11 Oct 1749; and perhaps John Fell, son of Thomas Fell, and Anne ---, bapt. St. Mary, Whitechapel 20 Oct 1723][will of John Fell, Grays Inn, gentleman, proved PCC 24 Nov 1759]

FELL, ROBERT; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1738/9 (Bourne's); left 1742.

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.