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FELTON, HENRY, eldest son of John Felton, Ovington, Essex and Lincoln’s Inn, barrister, and Mary David, Blois, France; b. 3 Feb 1679; adm. ; Min. Can. 1693 (Chapter Muniments 43109); afterwards went to Charterhouse; St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, matr. 31 Mar 1696; BA 1699; MA 1702; BD 1709 (from Queen’s Coll. ); DD 1712; ordained deacon (Worcester) 6 Dec 1702, priest (London) Jun 1704; Curate, Lapworth, Warwicks. 1702; in charge of English Church, Rotterdam 1708-9; Domestic Chaplain to successive Dukes of Rutland; Rector of Whitwell, Derbs. , 1711; Principal of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, from 23 Apr 1722; Rector of Barwick-in-Elmet, Yorks. , from 1736; author, The Christian Faith asserted against Deists, 1732; m. by 1722 Susan Westley; d. 1 Mar 1739/40. DNB.

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.

FENDALL, WILLIAM, son of John Fendall, London; b. 9 Sep 1757; adm. 28 Sep 1773; Univ. Coll. Oxford, matr. 17 May 1774, aged 16; BA 1778; MA (from Merton Coll. ) 1781; adm. Inner Temple 26 Jan 1776, called to bar 31 Jan 1783, chambers there Jan 1779 - Jun 1787; partner, Fendall & Co., bankers, Gloucester, Cardiff and Swansea c. 1798 – c. 1812. [perhaps m. 19 Jul 1789 Mary Burfourt (IGI)][will of William Fendall, Matson, Gloucs., proved PCC 22 Dec 1813]

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.

Fenn, William Wilthew; son of William Hugh Fenn, Secretary to Royal Free Hospital, London, and Treasurer to Covent Garden Opera, and Mary --- (IGI) ; b. 6 Jun 1827 ; a landscape painter ; Drawing Master by Jun 1862 – Dec 1864 ; blindness in the mid 1860s caused him to earn his living from then onwards as a writer for periodicals ; living Great Marlborough Street, London, in 1881 (1881 Census) ; m. 1 Jan 1867 Elizabeth Susan Eleanor, youngest dau. of Rev.Henry Robert Bowles, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, Unitarian minister ; d. 19 Dec 1906.