FATHER OF THE NAVY.
\DMIRAL FELLOWES DEAD. (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 26. The death is announced of Rear-Ad-miral Fellowcs, father of the British Navy, at the age of 96.—(A. and N.Z.) Rear-Admiral Sir T. H. B. Felloweg, X.C.8., was born in 1827, and was the son of Dr. Sir J. Fellowes. He entered the Navy 1845, and. was senior lieutenant of the" Mersey frigate at the landing of the allied forces at Vera. Cruz in 1861. He was made a rear-admiral in 1886, after serving in the Baltic and Black Seas during the Crimean war. He commanded the Naval Brigade in the Abyssinian war of 1868.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 74, 27 March 1923, Page 5
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