FEENEY, Patrick. b. Rosscommon 19 Nov. 1850; first appeared on the stage at Birmingham as an Irish comic singer; first appeared in London 1876; sang in all chief music halls in London and the provinces; the leading Irish comic singer for some years before his death; spent 40 weeks in the United States 1888. d. Kennington park road, London 13 May 1889.
FEENEY, Right Rev. Thomas. Professor in Maynooth college; bishop of Ptolemais and administrator apostolic of Killala, July 1839, consecrated 13 Oct. 1839; bishop of Killala 12 Dec. 1847 to death. d. Killala 9 June 1873.
FEILD, Right Rev. Edward (3 son of James Feild). b. Worcester 7 June 1801; ed. at Rugby and Queen’s coll. Ox., Michel scholar, Michel fellow 1827–33; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1844; R. of English Bicknor, Gloucs. 1834–44; the first inspector of schools under National Society, May 1840; bishop of Newfoundland 22 March 1844 to death; consecrated at Lambeth palace 28 April; author of addresses, sermons and charges. d. the bishop’s palace, Bermuda 8 June 1876. Tucker’s Memoir of E. Field (1877), portrait.
FEILDEN, Henry Master (eld. son of the succeeding). b. Witton park, Blackburn 21 Feb. 1818; M.P. for Blackburn 30 March 1869 to death. d. Lytham, Lancashire 5 Sep. 1875.
FEILDEN, Joseph. b. Blackburn 1792; sheriff of Lancs. 1818; M.P. for Blackburn 15 Aug. 1865 to 16 March 1869 when unseated on petition. d. Wilton park near Blackburn 29 Aug. 1870.
FEIST, Charles (son of Rev. Peter Feist who became a dissenting minister). b. Beverley, Yorkshire 12 April 1795; educ. Beverley gram. sch.; in solicitor’s office London; member of Norfolk and Suffolk circuits under David Fisher 5 years; proprietor of a sch. at Swaffham, Norfolk 7 years, of a sch. in London 1 year, of a sch. in Newmarket 18 years where he educated many of the jockeys; correspondent of Sunday Times at Newmarket; came to London 1842 in connection with Sunday Times; author of Breathings of the Woodland Lyre 1815; Useful rhymes for youths betimes 1837; Spring blossoms, dialogues on subjects entertaining to children, 4 ed. 1844. d. 10 Granville sq. Clerkenwell, London 10 July 1856. Sporting Review xxxvi, 391–4 (1856).
FEIST, Henry Mort. Editor of The Sporting Life 16 March 1859 to decease, wrote in it under name of Augur; no man understood racing and racing men more thoroughly; reporter and sporting prophet for Daily Telegraph under pseudonym of Hotspur; amateur actor and good in the role of a clown. d. Croydon 18 Dec. 1874 aged 37, a fund raised for his wife and children, admiral Rous president. Sporting Times 26 Dec. 1874 pp. 157–8, portrait; Sporting Life 19 Dec. 1874, p. 2, 26 Dec. p. 2; Illust. sporting and dramatic news ii, 327, 333 (1875), portrait.
FELIX, Nicholas, assumed name of Nicholas Wanostrocht (son of Vincent Wanostrocht of Camberwell, Surrey, schoolmaster, who d. 1824). b. Camberwell 5 Oct. 1804; kept a school at Peckham road, Camberwell 1824–32 when he leased it to Royal Naval School; studied cricket under Harry Hampton at Camberwell; invented the Catapulta with which he practised; left hand batsman; slow underhand left hand bowler; played first match at Lord’s 23 Aug. 1828; played in the Gentlemen v. Players matches 1831–52; kept a school at Blackheath; afterwards lived at Montpellier road, Brighton; subscription raised for him 1858; portrait, animal and landscape painter; inventor of the tubular india rubber gloves; a player of fives and billiards; author of Felix on the bat 1845, 3 ed. 1855. d. Wimborne Minster, Dorset 3 Sep. 1876. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores ii, 61 (1862), vii, p. xi (1877).
FELLOWES, Charles (son of Sir Thomas Fellowes 1778–1853). b. 19 Oct. 1823; entered navy 14 May 1836; captain 26 Feb. 1858; R.A. 18 June 1876; admiral superintendent of Chatham dockyard 1876–79; V.A. 31 Dec. 1880; C.B. 20 May 1871; commanded channel squadron 3 July 1885 to death. d. Gibraltar 8 March 1886.
FELLOWES, Sir James (3 son of Wm. Fellowes, M.D. of Leicester, physician to George iv). b. Edinburgh 1772; ed. at Rugby; entered at Peterhouse, Cam., removed to Caius as a Tancred scholar; fellow of Caius; studied medicine in London and Edinburgh; M.B. Cam. 1797, M.D. 5 July 1803; F.R.C.P. 30 Sep. 1805; hospital assist. June 1794; one of phys. to the Forces 28 Oct. 1795; knighted by George 3rd at the Queen’s palace 21 March 1810; inspector general of military hospitals 29 April 1813 to 1815 when he retired; F.R.S. 29 Feb. 1816; author of Reports of the pestilential disorder of Andalusia which appeared at Cadiz in the years 1800, 1804, 1810 and 1813, 1815. d. Langstone cottage near Havant 30 Dec. 1857.