VOLUME X, SLICE III✦

Fenton, Edward to Finistere

ARTICLES IN THIS SLICE:

FENTON, EDWARD FEUDALISM FENTON, ELIJAH FEUERBACH, ANSELM FENTON, SIR GEOFFREY FEUERBACH, LUDWIG ANDREAS FENTON, LAVINIA FEUERBACH, PAUL JOHANN ANSELM FENTON FEUILLANTS, CLUB OF THE FENUGREEK FEUILLET, OCTAVE FENWICK, SIR JOHN FEUILLETON FEOFFMENT FEUQUIERES, ISAAC MANASSES DE PAS FERDINAND FEVAL, PAUL HENRI CORENTIN FERDINAND I. (Roman emperor) FEVER FERDINAND II. (Roman emperor) FEYDEAU, ERNEST-AIME FERDINAND III. (Roman emperor) FEZ FERDINAND I. (emperor of Austria) FEZZAN FERDINAND I. (king of Naples) FIACRE, SAINT FERDINAND II. (king of Naples) FIARS PRICES FERDINAND IV. (king of Naples) FIBRES FERDINAND I. (king of Portugal) FIBRIN FERDINAND I. (king of Castile) FICHTE, IMMANUEL HERMANN VON FERDINAND II. (king of Leon) FICHTE, JOHANN GOTTLIEB FERDINAND III. (king of Castile) FICHTELGEBIRGE FERDINAND IV. (king of Castile) FICINO, MARSILIO FERDINAND I. (king of Aragon) FICKSBURG FERDINAND V. (of Castile & Leon) FICTIONS FERDINAND VI. (king of Spain) FIDDES, RICHARD FERDINAND VII. (king of Spain) FIDDLE FERDINAND II. (king of Sicily) FIDENAE FERDINAND III. (duke of Tuscany) FIDUCIARY FERDINAND, MAXIMILIAN MARIA FIEF FERDINAND (duke of Brunswick) FIELD, CYRUS WEST FERDINAND (archbishop of Cologne) FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY FERENTINO FIELD, EUGENE FERENTUM FIELD, FREDERICK FERETORY FIELD, HENRY MARTYN FERGHANA FIELD, JOHN FERGUS FALLS FIELD, MARSHALL FERGUSON, ADAM FIELD, NATHAN FERGUSON, JAMES FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON FERGUSON, ROBERT FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD FERGUSON, SIR SAMUEL FIELD FERGUSSON, JAMES FIELDFARE FERGUSSON, ROBERT FIELDING, ANTHONY VANDYKE COPLEY FERGUSSON, SIR WILLIAM FIELDING, HENRY FERINGHI FIELDING, WILLIAM STEVENS FERISHTA, MAHOMMED KASIM FIELD-MOUSE FERMANAGH FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD FERMAT, PIERRE DE FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS FERMENTATION FIENNES, NATHANIEL FERMO FIERI FACIAS FERMOY FIESCHI, GIUSEPPE MARCO FERN FIESCO, GIOVANNI LUIGI FERNANDEZ, ALVARO FIESOLE FERNANDEZ, DIEGO FIFE (county of Scotland) FERNANDEZ, JOHN FIFE (flute) FERNANDEZ, JUAN FIFTH MONARCHY MEN FERNANDEZ, LUCAS FIG FERNANDINA FIGARO FERNANDO DE NORONHA FIGEAC FERNANDO PO FIGUEIRA DA FOZ FERNEL, JEAN FRANCOIS FIGUERAS FERNIE FIGULUS, PUBLIUS NIGIDIUS FERNOW, KARL LUDWIG FIGURATE NUMBERS FEROZEPUR FIJI FEROZESHAH FILANDER FERRAND, ANTOINE FRANCOIS CLAUDE FILANGIERI, CARLO FERRAR, NICHOLAS FILANGIERI, GAETANO FERRAR, ROBERT FILARIASIS FERRARA FILDES, SIR LUKE FERRARA-FLORENCE FILE FERRARI, GAUDENZIO FILE-FISH FERRARI, GIUSEPPE FILELFO, FRANCESCO FERRARI, PAOLO FILEY FERREIRA, ANTONIO FILIBUSTER FERREL'S LAW FILICAJA, VINCENZO DA FERRERS FILIGREE FERRERS, LAURENCE SHIRLEY FILLAN, SAINT FERRET FILLET FERRI, CIRO FILLMORE, MILLARD FERRI, LUIGI FILMER, SIR RORERT FERRIER, ARNAUD DU FILMY FERNS FERRIER, JAMES FREDERICK FILON, PIERRE MARIE AUGUSTIN FERRIER, PAUL FILOSA FERRIER, SUSAN EDMONSTONE FILTER FERROL FIMBRIA, GAIUS FLAVIUS FERRUCCIO, FRANCESCO FIMBRIATE FERRULE FINALE FERRY, JULES FRANCOIS CAMILLE FINANCE FERRY FINCH, FINCH-HATTON FERSEN, FREDRIK AXEL FINCH OF FORDWICH, JOHN FINCH FERSEN, HANS AXEL FINCH FESCA, FREDERIC ERNEST FINCHLEY FESCENNIA FINCK, FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON FESCENNINE VERSES FINCK, HEINRICH FESCH, JOSEPH FINCK, HERMANN FESSA FINDEN, WILLIAM FESSENDEN, WILLIAM PITT FINDLATER, ANDREW FESSLER, IGNAZ AURELIUS FINDLAY, SIR GEORGE FESTA, CONSTANZO FINDLAY, JOHN RITCHIE FESTINIOG FINDLAY FESTOON FINE FESTUS FINE ARTS FESTUS, SEXTUS POMPEIUS FINGER FETIS, FRANCOIS JOSEPH FINGER-AND-TOE FETISHISM FINGER-PRINTS FETTERCAIRN FINGO FETTERS AND HANDCUFFS FINIAL FEU FINIGUERRA, MASO FEUCHERES, SOPHIE FINISHING FEUCHTERSLEBEN, ERNST FINISTERE FEUD

FENTON, EDWARD (d. 1603), English navigator, son of Henry Fenton and brother of Sir Geoffrey Fenton (q.v.), was a native of Nottinghamshire. In 1577 he sailed, in command of the "Gabriel," with Sir Martin Frobisher's second expedition for the discovery of the north-west passage, and in the following year he took part as second in command in Frobisher's third expedition, his ship being the "Judith." He was then employed in Ireland for a time, but in 1582 he was put in charge of an expedition which was to sail round the Cape of Good Hope to the Moluccas and China, his instructions being to obtain any knowledge of the north-west passage that was possible without hindrance to his trade. On this unsuccessful voyage he got no farther than Brazil, and throughout he was engaged in quarrelling with his officers, and especially with his lieutenant, William Hawkins, the nephew of Sir John Hawkins, whom he had in irons when he arrived back in the Thames. In 1588 he had command of the "Mary Rose," one of the ships of the fleet that was formed to oppose the Armada. He died fifteen years afterwards.

FENTON, ELIJAH (1683-1730), English poet, was born at Shelton near Newcastle-under-Lyme, of an old Staffordshire family, on the 25th of May 1683. He graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1704, but was prevented by religious scruples from taking orders. He accompanied the earl of Orrery to Flanders as private secretary, and on returning to England became assistant in a school at Headley, Surrey, being soon afterwards appointed master of the free grammar school at Sevenoaks in Kent. In 1710 he resigned his appointment in the expectation of a place from Lord Bolingbroke, but was disappointed. He then became tutor to Lord Broghill, son of his patron Orrery. Fenton is remembered as the coadjutor of Alexander Pope in his translation of the Odyssey. He was responsible for the first, fourth, nineteenth and twentieth books, for which he received L300. He died at East Hampstead, Berkshire, on the 16th of July 1730. He was buried in the parish church, and his epitaph was written by Pope.

Fenton also published Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems (1707); Miscellaneous Poems (1717); Mariamne, a tragedy (1723); an edition (1725) of Milton's poems, and one of Waller (1729) with elaborate notes. See W.W. Lloyd, Elijah Fenton, his Poetry and Friends (1894).

FENTON, SIR GEOFFREY (c. 1539-1608), English writer and politician, was the son of Henry Fenton, of Nottinghamshire. He was brother of Edward Fenton the navigator. He is said to have visited Spain and Italy in his youth; possibly he went to Paris in Sir Thomas Hoby's train in 1566, for he was living there in 1567, when he wrote Certaine tragicall discourses written oute of Frenche and Latin. This book is a free translation of Francois de Belleforest's French rendering of Matteo Bandello's Novelle. Till 1579 Fenton continued his literary labours, publishing Monophylo in 1572, Golden epistles gathered out of Guevarae's workes as other authors ... 1575, and various religious tracts of strong protestant tendencies. In 1579 appeared the Historie of Guicciardini, translated out of French by G.F. and dedicated to Elizabeth. Through Lord Burghley he obtained, in 1580, the post of secretary to the new lord deputy of Ireland, Lord Grey de Wilton, and thus became a fellow worker with the poet, Edmund Spenser. From this time Fenton abandoned literature and became a faithful if somewhat unscrupulous servant of the crown. He was a bigoted protestant, longing to use the rack against "the diabolicall secte of Rome," and even advocating the assassination of the queen's most dangerous subjects. He won Elizabeth's confidence, and the hatred of all his fellow-workers, by keeping her informed of every one's doings in Ireland. In 1587 Sir John Perrot arrested Fenton, but the queen instantly ordered his release. Fenton was knighted in 1589, and in 1590-1591 he was in London as commissioner on the impeachment of Perrot. Full of dislike of the Scots and of James VI. (which he did not scruple to utter), on the latter's accession Fenton's post of secretary was in danger, but Burghley exerted himself in his favour, and in 1604 it was confirmed to him for life, though he had to share it with Sir Richard Coke. Fenton died in Dublin on the 19th of October 1608, and was buried in St Patrick's cathedral. He married in June 1585, Alice, daughter of Dr Robert Weston, formerly lord chancellor of Ireland, and widow of Dr Hugh Brady, bishop of Meath, by whom he had two children, a son, Sir William Fenton, and a daughter, Catherine, who in 1603 married Richard Boyle, 1st earl of Cork.