FELLOWS, SIR CHARLES (1799-1860)

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FELLOWS, SIR CHARLES (1799-1860) , British archaeologist, was born in August 1799 at Nottingham, where his family had an estate. When fourteen he drew sketches to illustrate a trip to the ruins of Newstead Abbey, which afterwards appeared on the title-page of Moore's Life of Lord Byron. In 1820 he settled in London, where he became an active member of the British Association. In 1827 he discovered the modern ascent of Mont Blanc. After the death of his mother in 1832 he passed the greater portion of his time in Italy, Greece and the Levant. The numerous sketches he executed were largely used in illustrating Childe Harold. In 1838 he went to Asia Minor, making Smyrna his headquarters. His explorations in the interior and the south led him to districts practically unknown to Europeans, and he thus discovered ruins of a number of ancient cities. He entered Lycia and explored the Xanthus from the mouth at Patara upwards. Nine miles from Patara he discovered the ruins of Xanthus, the ancient

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

of Lycia, finely situated on hills, and abounding in magnificent remains. About 15 M. farther up he came upon the ruins of Tlos. After taking sketches of the most interesting objects and copying a number of

inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

, he returned to Smyrna through

Caria

CARIA

and Lydia. The publication of A Journal written during an Excursion in Asia Minor (London, 1839) roused such

interest

INTEREST

that Lord Palmerston, at the request of the British Museum authorities, asked the British

consul

at Constantinople to get leave from the sultan to ship a number of the Lycian works of art.

Late

LATE

in 1839 Fellows, under the auspices of the British Museum, again set out for Lycia, accompanied by George Scharf, who assisted him in sketching. This second visit resulted in the discovery of thirteen ancient cities, and in 1841 appeared An Account of Discoveries in Lycia, being a Journal kept during a Second Excursion in Asia Minor. A third visit was made

late

LATE

in 1841, after Fellows had obtained a f rran by personal application at Constantinople. He shippeda number of works of art for England, and in the fourth and most famous expedition (1844) twenty-seven cases of

marbles

MARBLES

were despatched to the British Museum. His

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

discoveries were at Xanthus, Pinara, Patara, Tlos, Myra and

Olympus

OLYMPUS

. In 1844 he presented to the British Museum his portfolios, accounts of his expeditions, and specimens of natural history illustrative of Lycia. In 1845 he was knighted " as an acknowledgment of his services in the removal of the Xanthian antiquities to this country." He paid his own expenses in all his journeys and received no public reward. Fellows was twice married. He
died in London on the 8th of November 186o.
In addition to the works above mentioned, Fellows published the following: The Xanthian

Marbles

MARBLES

; their Acquisition and Trans-mission to England (1843), a refutation of false statements that had been published ; An Account of the Ionic Trophy Monument excavated at Xanthus (1848); a cheap edition of his two Journals, entitled Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, particularly in the Province of Lycia (1852); and Coins of Ancient Lycia before the Reign of Alexander; with an Essay on the Relative Dates of the Lycian Monuments in the British Museum (1855). See C. Brown's Lives of

Nottinghamshire

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, or NOTTS

Worthies (1882), pp. 352-353, and Journ. of Roy. Geog. Soc., 1861.

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