EYTON, Rev. Robert William (3 son of Rev. John Eyton, V. of Wellington, Shropshire). b. Wellington vicarage 21 Dec. 1815; ed. at Rugby and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1845; R. of Ryton, Shropshire 1841–63; author of The antiquities of Shropshire 12 vols. 1861; A Key to Domesday, an analysis and digest of the Dorset survey 1878; Court, household and itinerary of Henry ii, 1878 and other books. d. Winchfield house near Basingstoke 8 Sep. 1871.
EYTON, Thomas Campbell (son of Thomas Eyton 1777–1855, recorder of Wenlock). b. Eyton hall near Wellington, Shropshire 10 Sep. 1809; edited the Herd book of Hereford cattle 1842–60; formed at Eyton one of the finest collections of skins and skeletons of birds in Europe; author of History of the rarer British birds 1836; A history of the oyster and the oyster fisheries 1858; Osteologia Avium 1871. d. Eyton hall 25 Oct. 1880.
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FABER, Rev. Frederick William (7 child of Thomas Henry Faber, who d. 1833, sec. to Dr. Barrington, bishop of Durham). b. Calverley vicarage, Yorkshire 28 June 1814; ed. at Shrewsbury, Harrow and Ball. coll. Ox.; scholar of Univ. coll. Ox. 1834, fellow 1837, Newdigate prizeman 1836; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; Johnson divinity scholar 1837; R. of Elton, Hunts. 1843–45; admitted into R.C. church at Northampton by Bishop Wareing 17 Nov. 1845; entered Monastery of St. Wilfrid, Colmore terrace, Birmingham 26 May 1846; rector of oratory of St. Philip Neri, 24 and 25 King William st. Strand, London opened 31 May 1849, Father Superior 12 Oct. 1850 to death, the oratory removed to Brompton, March 1854; created D.D. 9 July 1854; edited The Saints and Servants of God, continued by the Congregation of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri 42 vols. 1847–56; author of The Cherwell water lily and other poems 1840 and about 30 other books. d. the Oratory, Brompton 26 Sep. 1863. bur. in burial ground of St. Mary’s, Sydenham 30 Sep. J. E. Bowden’s Life and letters of F. W. Faber 1869; A brief sketch of the early life of F. W. Faber, by his only surviving brother [Rev. F. A. Faber] 1869; Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 207–18; I.L.N. xxiv, 289, 290 (1854), portrait.
FABER, Rev. George Stanley (eld. son of Rev. Thomas Faber, V. of Calverley, Yorkshire). b. Calverley parsonage 25 Oct. 1773; ed. at Happenholme gr. sch. and Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1793, M.A. 1796, B.D. 1803; fell. and tutor of Linc. coll. 1793–1803; proctor 1801; Bampton lecturer 1801; C. of Calverley 1803–1805; V. of Stockton upon Tees 1805–1808; V. of Redmarshall, Durham 1808–11; V. of Longnewton, Durham 1811–32; Preb. of Salisbury 1831; master of Sherburn hosp. near Durham 1832 to death; author of Horæ Mosaicæ, or a view of the Mosaical records 2 vols. 1801, 2 ed. 1818; Dissertation on the prophesies 2 vols. 1807, 5 ed. 3 vols. 1814–18; The difficulties of Romanism 1826, 3 ed. 1853; The sacred calendar of prophecy 3 vols. 1828, 2 ed. 1844 and many other works. d. Sherburn hospital 27 Jany. 1854. The many mansions in the house of the Father, by G. S. Faber with memoir by F. A. Faber 1854; Christian Remembrancer xxix, 310–31 (1855); H. Heaviside’s Annals of Stockton on Tees (1865) 101–104.
FABER, William Raikes (son of the preceding). Second lieut. 60 rifles 10 April 1826; lieut. col. 2 West India foot 15 Dec. 1848 to 21 Feb. 1851 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 53 foot 9 Jany. 1857 to 13 July 1858 when placed on h.p.; col. 17 foot 30 April 1871 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 29 May 1875. d. Staplegrove lodge, Taunton 24 June 1879 aged 73.
FADDY, Peter. Second lieut. R.A. 8 Sep. 1803; lieut. col. 10 Aug. 1839 to 3 Sep. 1845 when he retired on full pay; general 7 Feb. 1870; author of Essay on the defence of Great Britain at home and abroad 1848. d. Charleville, co. Cork 17 July 1879.
FAGAN, William Trant (eld. son of James Fagan of Cork). b. Cork 1801; ed. at Southall park, Middlesex; a merchant at Cork, alderman, mayor; M.P. for city of Cork 1847–1851 and 1852 to death; author of The life and times of Daniel O’Connell 2 vols. 1847–8. d. 9 or 16 May 1859. I.L.N. xiv, 205 (1849), portrait; Fitzpatrick’s O’Connell (1888) ii, 453.
FAGGE, Charles Hilton (son of Charles Fagge, surgeon). b. Hythe, Kent 30 June 1838; ed. at Guy’s hospital; M.D. 1863; M.R.C.P. 1864, F.R.C.P. 1870; medical registrar of Guy’s hospital 1866, assistant phys. 1867, phys. 1880; edited Guy’s Hospital Reports some years; author of Principles and practice of medicine 1886, 2 ed. 1888. d. 76 Grosvenor st. London 18 Nov. 1888.
FAHEY, James. b. Paddington 16 April 1804; sec. of New Society of Painters in watercolours 1838–74; drawing master at Merchant Taylor’s school 1856–83; exhibited 13 landscapes at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. gallery 1825–36. d. The Grange, Shepherd’s Bush Green, London 11 Dec. 1885. I.L.N. 26 Dec. 1885 p. 667, portrait.