![]() ![]() In the university elections he showed great energy in suppressing corruption.įell's building operations were ambitious. As Vice-Chancellor, Fell personally visited the drinking taverns and ordered out the students. To which he immediately replied with the well-known lines:ĭelinquents were not always treated thus mildly by Fell, and Acton Cremer, for the crime of courting a wife while only a bachelor of arts, was punished by having to translate into English the whole of Scheffer's history of Lapland. Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere – quare Hoc tantum possum dicere, non-amo te. Tom Brown, author of The Dialogues of the Dead, about to be expelled from Oxford for some offence, was pardoned by Fell on the condition of his translating ex tempore the 32nd epigram of Martial: He was a disciplinarian, and possessed a talent for the education of young men, many of whom he received into his own family. ![]() disputations in which the rival parties "ran down opponents in arguments," and which commonly ended in blows and disturbances. He obliged students to attend lectures, instituted reforms in the performances of the public exercises in the schools, kept the examiners up to their duties, was present in person at examinations. He excluded the undergraduates, whose presence had been irregularly permitted, from convocation. in the university in October 1679 and according to the testimony of William Nichols, his secretary, he disapproved of the Exclusion Bill. On the other hand, he successfully opposed the incorporation of Titus Oates as D.D. He made many converts from the Roman Catholics and Nonconformists. "As he was among the first of our clergy," says Thomas Burnet, "that apprehended the design of bringing in popery, so he was one of the most zealous against it." He was active in recovering church property, and by his directions a children's catechism was drawn up by Thomas Marshall for use in his diocese. He ejected the intruders from his college or else "fixed them in loyal principles." "He was the most zealous man of his time for the Church of England," says Anthony Wood, "and none that I yet know of did go beyond him in the performance of the rules belonging thereunto." He attended chapel four times a day, restored to the services, not without some opposition, the organ and surplice, and insisted on the proper academic dress which had fallen into disuse. He restored good order in the university by the archbishop, which during the Commonwealth had given place to a general disregard of authority. Some years later, he declined the Primacy of Ireland.įell showed himself a capable administrator. He filled the office of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1666 to 1669, and was consecrated bishop of Oxford, in 1676, retaining his deanery in commendam. ![]() Career Īfter the Restoration, Fell was made prebendary of Chichester, canon of Christ Church (27 July 1660), dean (30 November), master of St Oswald's hospital, Worcester, chaplain to the king, and D.D. In 1648 he was deprived of his studentship by the parliamentary visitors, and during the next few years he resided chiefly at Oxford with his brother-in-law, Thomas Willis, at whose house opposite Merton College he and his friends Richard Allestree and John Dolben kept up the service of the Church of England throughout the Commonwealth. He obtained his MA in 1643 and took Holy Orders ( deacon 1647, priest 1649).ĭuring the Civil War he bore arms for King Charles I of England and held a commission as ensign. In 1637 at age 11 he became a student at Christ Church, and in 1640 because of his "known desert", he was specially allowed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, to proceed to his degree of BA when lacking one term's residence. John Fell received his early education at Lord Williams's School at Thame in Oxfordshire. Samuel Fell was also Dean of Christ Church, from 1638 until 1648. He served as Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and later concomitantly as Bishop of Oxford.įell was born at Longworth, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), the eldest son of Samuel Fell and his wife, Margaret née Wylde. John Fell (23 June 1625 – 10 July 1686) was an English churchman and influential academic. ![]()
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