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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, Frank Charles, son of Charles Fleischmann, of Hampstead; b. Sept. 14, 1898; adm. May 2, 1913 (R); left Dec. 1915; assumed the surname of Fenton in lieu of Fleischmann; enlisted in the E. Surrey Regt. April 1917; temp. 2nd Lieut. M.G.C. Nov. 28, 1917; served in France with the 51st M.G.C. May 1918 to Oct. 1918, when he was wounded at Cambrai; M.C. Oct. 25, 1918; 2nd Lieut. (Special List) from T.A.R.O. Sept. 3, 1939; temp. Capt. transferred to Intelligence Corps July 15, 1940; m. Sept. 26, 1945, Bridget M. Trevor, only child of the Rev. John Trevor Lewis, Vicar of All Saints, Northampton, and Hon. Canon of Peterborough; d. 26 Feb. 1960.

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.

FENWICKE, RALPH; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1655, matr. 1 Apr 1656, then described as “pleb. ”, Westminster Student; BA 27 Jan 1658/9; MA 1 Feb 1661/2 (incorp. Camb. 1662); ordained; Vicar of Stamfordham, Northumberland, from 1662; Rector of Morpeth, Northumberland, 1669-72; buried Stamfordham 17 Feb 1674/5.

Ferguson, Howard, son of Stanley Ferguson, banker, of Belfast and Edith Frances, d. of James Carr of Belfast; b. 21 Oct. 1908; adm. Sept. 1922 (A); left Dec. 1923; RAF 1940-2; hon MusD Queen's Univ. Belfast 1959; a composer, pianist and musicologist; published compositions include choral and orchestral music, chamber music, piano music and songs; editions include early keyboard music, including the complete solo piano works of Schubert; author of Keyboard Interpretation from the 14th to the 19th Century 1975; d. 31 Oct. 1999.

FERREBEE, MICHAEL, son of Jonathan Ferrebee, St. Martin’s in the Fields, Westminster, and Mary --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 14 Jan 1703 (IGI); adm. (aged 11) Jan 1716/7; KS 1718; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1722, matr. 6 Jun 1722, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1722 - void by marriage 18 Dec 1731 (sic); while at Oxford he fought a duel with Charles Arbuthnot (Min. Can. 1719, qv), a love affair being the cause of the quarrel; they were both made to ask pardon publicly in Hall, and Ferrebee was suspended from taking his degree for two years and also had to translate the whole of Cicero’s De Oratore (Thompson, Christ Church, 148-9); BA 1728; MA 1730; ordained; Chaplain, Royal Navy 1734; Domestic Chaplain to John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and Orrery (qv) (The Orrery Papers, i, 130; ii, 160); Rector of Rolleston, Staffs., from 1738; m. 1st, 25 Nov 1729 [but check date] Jane Gillies, St. Andrew’s, Holborn; . m. 2nd, 15 Jul 1740 Elizabeth, dau. of Henry Wrigley, Langley Hall, Middleton, Lancs.; m. 3rd, 2 Dec 1756 (IGI) Ann Ragg; buried 28 May 1777.