The Ven. Henry Fearon (20 June 1802, Cuckfield - 13 June 1885, Loughborough) was Archdeacon of Leicester from 1863 until 1884,[1] Rector of Loughborough from 1848 until 1885, and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Fearon was born in Ockenden,[2] Cuckfield, Sussex, on 20 June 1802, to The Rev. Joseph Francis Fearon.[3] He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge,[2] at which he received the degrees B.A. in 1824, M.A. in 1827, and B.D. in 1834,[3] and of which he became a Fellow.[4]
He was ordained deacon in 1826 and priest in 1827. He was the Rector of Loughborough from 1848 until his death.[5] He advocated for a clean water supply to the town and paid for the Fearon Fountain, which stands in the marketplace.[6] The Fearon Hall in Loughborough was built by public subscription in his memory.
His brother[7] was John Peter Fearon (1804–1873),[8][9][10] who was a lawyer of the Inner Temple[7] and of Great George Street, Westminster,[9][11] who founded Fearon & Co Solicitors, as Fearon & Clabon, which continues to exist today.[12] He married his brother John Peter Fearon (1804–1873) to Jessy/Jessie Burton, who was the youngest daughter of the eminent London property developer James Burton,[7] through whom he was the uncle of Constance Mary Fearon, who founded the Francis Bacon Society.[13][14]
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[edit]- ^ Obituary The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Jun 17, 1885; pg. 6; Issue 31475
- ^ a b "Fearon, Henry (FRN820H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b "Funeral Of Archdeacon Fearon". Nottingham Evening Post. No. 2210. 20 June 1885. p. 4. Retrieved 13 March 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Cuckfield Connections, '1848: Cuckfield inhabitants say farewell to much loved church rector with a fine memento'".
- ^ So who was Henry Fearon?
- ^ Dyer, Lynne (22 August 2020). "Lynne About Loughborough: Spotlight on the Fearon Fountain". Lynne About Loughborough. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ a b c "Brett Volume 1: Chapter IX - St. Leonards 1833, Historical Hastings".
- ^ "Canadian Literature, No. 134, Autumn 1992, Edited by W. H. New, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, p.96" (PDF).
- ^ a b "Pedigree of Jessy Burton (1804 - 1877), The Weald Archives". Archived from the original on 18 June 2018. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
- ^ Davies, Richard A. (2005). Inventing Sam Slick: A Biography of Thomas Chandler Haliburton. University of Toronto Press. p. 72.
- ^ J. Manwaring Baines F.S.A., Burton's St. Leonards, Hastings Museum , 1956.
- ^ "Fearon & Co Solicitors, Our History".
- ^ (A Disciple), 'In Memoriam. Constance Mary Pott, b. 1833, d. 1915', Baconian XIII, No. 52 (1915), pp. 244-47 (Society's pdf)
- ^ "Francis Bacon Society Library, Senate House Library, London". Archived from the original on 22 July 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2016.