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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.