FIELDEN, Joshua (son of John Fielden 1784–1849, M.P. for Oldham). b. 1827; member of firm of Fielden Brothers, cotton spinners of Todmorden and Manchester, and of firm of Fielden Brothers & Co. of London, merchants; M.P. for eastern division of West Riding of Yorkshire 1868–80; author of A Letter showing the effects of the malt tax 1865. d. Hotel Monte Huri, Cannes 9 March 1887 in 60 year, personalty declared of value of £503,598.
FIELDEN, Thomas (4 son of Joshua Fielden, who d. 1811). Member of firm of Joshua Fielden and Sons, cotton spinners, Todmorden; manager of the Manchester warehouse, firm became Fielden Brothers; erected gas works 1830; firm became Fielden Brothers & Co. 1837. d. Manchester 7 Dec. 1869, personalty sworn under £1,300,000, 12 March 1870. Fortunes made in business i, 411–56 (1884).
FIELDING, Antony Vandyke Copley (2 son of Nathan Theodore Fielding, painter). b. 1787; pupil of John Varley; member of Society of Painters in water-colours 1813, treasurer 1817, sec. 1818, pres. 1831 to death; exhibited 17 pictures at R.A. and 100 at B.I. 1811–55; awarded a medal at Paris Salon 1824. d. Worthing 3 March 1855 in 68 year. Redgrave’s Century of painters ii, 509–13 (1866); J. Sherer’s Gallery of British Artists ii, 57–8.
FIELDING, Henry Borron (only son of Henry Fielding of Myerscough house near Garstang, Lancs.) Devoted himself to study of plants; bought herbarium of Dr. Steudel 1836; bought Prescott collection of 28,000 plants 1837; F.L.S. 1838; bequeathed his herbarium to Univ. of Oxford. d. Lancaster 21 Nov. 1851.
FIELDING, Newton Smith (brother of Antony V. C. Fielding 1787–1855). b. Huntingdon 1799; worked in water colours, etching, aquatint and lithography; best known for his paintings and engravings of animals; taught painting to family of Louis Philippe in Paris; published Subjects after nature 1836; Lessons on fortification 1853; A dictionary of colour containing 750 tints 1854; How to sketch from nature, or perspective and its application, 2 ed. 1856 and other books, d. Paris 12 Jany. 1856.
FIELDING, Theodore Henry Adolphus (brother of the preceding). Painter and engraver; exhibited 18 pictures at R.A., 21 at B.I. and 27 at Suffolk st. gallery 1799–1837; teacher of drawing and perspective at Addiscombe college; published numerous sets of engravings in aquatint; author of Index of colours and mixed tints 1830; On the theory of painting 1836; The art of engraving with the various modes of operation 1844 and other books. d. Croydon 11 July 1851 aged 70.
FIFE, James Duff, 4 Earl of (elder son of Alexander Duff, 3 Earl of Fife 1731–1811). b. 6 Oct. 1776; served with great distinction in Spanish army during Peninsular war, major general; M.P. for Banffshire 1818–27; succeeded as 4 Earl 7 April 1811; lord lieut. of Banffshire 1811–56; vice pres. of Antiquarian society, Scotland; G.C.H. 1823; K.T. 3 Sep. 1827; created Baron Fife 27 April 1827. d. Duff house, Banffshire 9 March. 1857. W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery iv, 86 (1848), portrait; Jerdan’s National portrait gallery ii, (1831), portrait.
FIFE, James Duff, 5 Earl of (elder son of General Sir Alexander Duff, G.C.H. 1777–1851). b. Edinburgh 6 July 1814; attached to the embassy at Paris; M.P. for Banffshire 1837 to 1 Oct. 1857 when he was created Baron Skene of Skene; lieut. and sheriff principal of Elginshire 26 May 1851; lord lieut. of Banffshire 1857 to death; succeeded his uncle as 5 Earl 9 March 1857; K.T. 2 March 1860. d. Mar lodge, Braemar, Aberdeenshire 7 Aug. 1879.
FIFE, George (son of Wm. Fife of Newcastle, surgeon). M.D. and L.R.C.P. Edin. 1827; surgeon to Northern public dispensary, Edin.; phys. to Queen’s hospital and professor of clinical medicine and materia medica and therapeutics at Queen’s college, Birmingham to death; translated Coster’s Manual of operative surgery 1831; author of Observations on Influenza 1833; Treatise on Cholera 1849 and other books; died from taking morphia at his lodgings Surrey st. Strand, London 10 May 1857 aged 50.
FIFE, Sir John (brother of the preceding). b. Newcastle 1795; surgeon at Newcastle 1815; member of Newcastle corporation 1835, alderman 1835, mayor 1838–9 and 1842–3; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 July 1840 for his exertions in repressing Chartist disturbances 1840; F.R.C.S. 1844; senior surgeon to Newcastle infirmary; lieut. col. commandant 1 Newcastle rifle volunteers 1860–68; author of Practical remarks on the Continental cholera, Newcastle 1831. d. Reedsmouth house, North Tyne 15 Jany. 1871.