P_10433_1964 – Sir John Fellowes
Sir John Fellowes (1671-1724), South Sea Company Director (July 1711-Nov. 1718) and Sub-Governor (Nov. 1718-Feb. 1721), London merchant and ‘India and general shipper’, made a baronet c. 1719. John Fellowes was co-owner with Humphry Morice (q.v.) of a voyage from London by the Heroine in 1718 to Whydah/Ouidah and the British Caribbean in which the ship was captured by pirates and the enslaved African people sold in the Americas by another ship. He also was a co-owner of at least one earlier slaving voyage by the Roberts Bonadventure in 1706 to Jamaica for which his ownership is not recorded in TASTDB. Fellowes was arrested and sanctioned in the aftermath of the South Sea Bubble, and forced to give up all but £10,000 of his gross assets of £277,905; he also retained his house at Carshalton Park (now St Philomena’s School). He was the uncle of Coulson Fellowes (q.v.).
Title: Sir
First name: John
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Last name: Fellowes
Aliases: Fellowes, Sir John
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Sources: Bonham's on 21/03/2018 auctioned in London as part of 'Fine books and Manuscripts...the property of Frieda Hughes' 6 volumes of papers of Sir John Fellowes, including outgoings and revenues for voyages to Virginia, Guinea, India and China. One for these was for "...Voyage per the Roberts Adventure to Joseph Martyn/ To my 1/8 parte of £950 Sterling drew on him from Jamaica being for the ½ parte of Negroes Fraight (the other ½ parte being paid in Jamaica per agreement -- £118-15..."). This appears to refer to voyage no. 20894 from London by Roberts Bonadventure in 1706 shown as owned by Joseph Martin (in fact Joseph Martyn of Love Lane), Houlditch & Brooke and Thomas Merrett in TASTDB; https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24633/lot/62/ PROB 11/599/45 Carswell, South Sea Bubble pp. 224 and 248 Papers of Sir John Fellowes are held among other family records at the Norfolk Record Office, FEL 696, 554 x 6 Description: Personal account book 1712-1719; bundle of papers re settlement of affairs of South Sea Company c.1719-22 and miscellaneous business papers 1707-1724.
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Organisations (1)
South Sea Company
Role: Director
Crossings (2)
76400 - Heroine (1718 - 1719)
Role: Owner
20894 - Roberts Bonadventure (1706 - 1707)
Role: Owner
Birth
Date: 1669
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Death
Date: 26/07/1724
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Memorial details: Memorial in All Saints Church Carshalton
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Baronetcy: 1719
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Residencies
Occupation: Merchant - General Overseas (Merchant)
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
Value of Total Personalty: /
Value of Known Legacies (where material to total estate): £5,000
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Town/City: Carshalton (Surrey)
Courts: PCC
In the will of Sir John Fellowes bart made 02/11/1723 he made a series of monetary bequests totalling some £5000 to friends and relatives, and several philanthropic bequests detailed in this entry. He left his residual estate to his brother Edward Fellowes of St Paul, Covent Garden.
Legacies
Philanthropy
Type: Social
Town/City: Carshalton (Surrey)
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Year: 1724
Value: £30
Sir John Fellowes left £30 'For the poor of Carshalton'
Philanthropy
Type: Medical
Town/City: London (London)
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Year: 1724
Value: £300
Sir John Fellowes left £100 each to 'the three great Hospitals in London', viz. Christ's Hospital; St Bartholomew; and Bridewell.
Philanthropy
Type: Social
Town/City: London (London)
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Year: 1724
Value: £200
Sir John Fellowes left £100 'to the use of the charity children of Old Jewry parish' and £100 to the use of the 'charity children of Colledge Hill alias St Antholins'.
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