FAWKNER, John Pascoe. b. London 20 Aug. 1792; went out to Port Phillip, Australia 1803; a publican at Launceston, Van Diemen’s Land; brought out the Launceston Advertiser 1830; founded Melbourne, Victoria 29 Aug. 1835; brought out the Melbourne Advertiser the first newspaper in Victoria 1 Jany. 1838, the Port Phillip Patriot 5 March 1838 converted it into the Daily News; member of first legislative council Oct. 1851; member of the upper house, Nov. 1856 to death. d. Melbourne 4 Sep. 1869. Labilliere’s Early history of Victoria ii, 88–95 (1878).
FAWSITT, Amy, stage name of Mary Ann Fawsitt (dau. of William Fawsitt of the Manchester exchange, who d. 1843). b. London 1836; ed. for a governess at Abbeville and Milan; first appeared on stage at Edinburgh 1865; first appeared in London at Holborn theatre as Flora Grainger in The Mistress of the Mill 1 May 1869; played Lottie in Albery’s Two Roses at Vaudeville theatre 400 times from 4 June 1870; played Lady Teazle at same theatre 412 times from 18 July 1872; came out at Fifth Avenue theatre New York 27 Sep. 1876. (m. 27 May 1871 Edward Menzies of Perth and Belgrave sq. London). d. 8th Avenue, New York 26 Dec. 1876. bur. Marble cemetery, New York 29 Dec. Illustrated sporting and dramatic news i, 217, 219 (1874), portrait; London Figaro 29 Sep. 1877, pp. 10–12.
FEARON, Ven. Henry (son of Rev. J. F. Fearon, V. of Cuckfield, Sussex). b. 20 June 1802; ed. at Winchester and Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; fellow of Em. coll.; R. of Loughborough 1848 to death; archdeacon of Leicester 1863–84; author of Old Dame Walder, a tale of Suffolk life 1847; What to learn and what to unlearn, Lectures 1860 and other books. d. Loughborough 12 June 1885.
FEARON, Robert Bryce. Ensign 31 foot June 1795, lieut. col. 8 May 1823; lieut. col. 64 foot 12 Jany. 1826; lieut. col. 6 foot 1 May 1828; lieut. col. 40 foot 23 Nov. 1838 to death; commanded troops on board ship ‘Kent’ burnt in Bay of Biscay 1 March 1825, C.B. for his services on this occasion 2 April 1825; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; committed suicide by shooting himself at residence of his daughter Lady Palmer at Much Hadham, Herts. 26 Jany. 1851.
FEARON, Samuel Turner. M.R.C.S. 1848; M.D. St. Andrews 1851; professor of Chinese literature, King’s college, London. d. Abercrombie house, Southampton st. Fitzroy sq. London 18 Jany. 1854 aged 35.
FEATHERSTON, Isaac Earl (4 son of Thomas Featherston of Cotfield house, Durham). b. 21 March 1813; studied medicine at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1836; went to New Zealand 1840; superintendent of province of Wellington 1853–71; member of general assembly for Wanganui and afterwards for city of Wellington; agent general for New Zealand in England 1871 to death. d. 60 York road, Brighton 19 June 1876. W. Gisborne’s New Zealand Rulers (1886), 83, portrait.
FEATHERSTONHAUGH, George William. b. London 1780; went to U.S. America 1807 where he married and resided; geologist of U.S.A. in journeys through Mexico and Arkansas 1834–5; commissioner to determine boundary between U.S.A. and British North America 1839; British consul at Havre 29 Oct. 1844 to death; instrumental in bringing Louis Philippe and his queen to England 3 March 1848; F.R.S. 2 April 1835; edited the monthly American journal of geology from 1831; author of The Republic of Cicero, translated 1829; Excursion through the slave states 2 vols. 1844; A canoe voyage up the Minnay Sotor 2 vols. 1847 and other books. d. Havre 27 Sep. 1866. Quarterly Journal of Geological Soc. xxiii, pp. xliii-v (1867).
FECHTER, Charles Albert (son of Jean Maria Guillaume Fechter, sculptor). b. Hanway yard, Oxford st. London 23 Oct. 1824; made his début at Comedíe Française, Paris, Dec. 1844; played at St. James’s theatre, London 1847; played at Vaudeville theatre, Paris 1852–58; joint director of Odéon theatre 1857; the leading jeune premier in France; appeared as Ruy Blas in Victor Hugo’s drama Ruy Blas at Princess’s theatre 27 Oct. 1860, and as Hamlet 20 March 1861 with great success; lessee of Lyceum theatre, Dec. 1862 to Nov. 1867; played at Adelphi theatre 1867–69 and 1872; first appeared in New York 10 Jany. 1870; opened Globe theatre, New York 12 Sep. 1870; opened Park theatre, New York 15 April 1874; broke his leg 1876 when he retired from the stage. d. at his farm, Richmond, Bucks. county, Philadelphia 5 Aug. 1879. Kate Field’s C. A. Fechter (1882), 4 portraits; A. Brereton’s Some famous Hamlets (1884) 45–50; Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1879) 127–36; Tallis’s Illustrated life in London (1864) 104, 105, 138, 2 portraits; Theatre iii, 70, 132 (1879), portrait.
FEDERICI, Frederick, stage name of Frederick Baker. Sang frequently in London at St. James’s hall and Monday popular concerts; played all the baritone parts in Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic operas in America and England; went to Australia, June 1887; played Mephistopheles in Faust at Princess’s theatre, Melbourne 3 March 1888. d. in the green-room of the theatre at 12.10 a.m. 4 March 1888. Illustrated sporting and dramatic news 26 May 1888 pp. 321, 322, portrait.
FEENEY, Patrick. b. Galway 1800; ran away from home at 9 years of age; a strolling showman or performer of feats of strength and agility, he balanced coach wheels, a plank 21 feet long and a live donkey on a ladder; always known as Old Malabar; made the round of all the fairs in England and Scotland; an account of his life was written and published by David Prince Miller; performed in streets of Glasgow 5 Nov. 1883. d. 9 M’Pherson st. Glasgow 6 Nov. 1883. Era 10 Nov. 1883 p. 4, col. 4.