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SIR CHARLES FELLOWS (1799-1860)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 243 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:CHARLES See also:FELLOWS (1799-1860)  , See also:British archaeologist, was See also:born in See also:August 1799 at See also:Nottingham, where his See also:family had an See also:estate . When fourteen he See also:drew sketches to illustrate a trip to the ruins of Newstead See also:Abbey, which afterwards appeared on the See also:title-See also:page of See also:Moore's See also:Life of See also:Lord See also:Byron . In 1820 he settled in See also:London, where he became an active member of the British Association . In 1827 he discovered the See also:modern ascent of Mont See also:Blanc . After the See also:death of his See also:mother in 1832 he passed the greater portion of his See also:time in See also:Italy, See also:Greece and the See also:Levant . The numerous sketches he executed were largely used in illustrating Childe Harold . In 1838 he went to See also:Asia See also:Minor, making See also:Smyrna his headquarters . His explorations in the interior and the See also:south led him to districts practically unknown to Europeans, and he thus discovered ruins of a number of See also:ancient cities . He entered See also:Lycia and explored the See also:Xanthus from the mouth at See also:Patara upwards . Nine See also:miles from Patara he discovered the ruins of Xanthus, the ancient See also:capital 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 See also:objects and copying a number of See also:inscriptions, he returned to Smyrna through See also:Caria and See also:Lydia .

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Journal written during an Excursion in Asia Minor (London, 1839) roused such See also:interest that Lord See also:Palmerston, at the See also:request of the British Museum authorities, asked the British See also:consul at See also:Constantinople to get leave from the See also:sultan to See also:ship a number of the Lycian See also:works of See also:art . See also:Late in 1839 See also:Fellows, under the auspices of the British Museum, again set out for Lycia, accompanied by See also:George See also:Scharf, who assisted him in sketching . This second visit resulted in the See also:discovery of thirteen ancient cities, and in 1841 appeared An See also:Account of Discoveries in Lycia, being a Journal kept during a Second Excursion in Asia Minor . A third visit was made late in 1841, after Fellows had obtained a f rran by See also:personal application at Constantinople . He shippeda number of works of art for See also:England, and in the See also:fourth and most famous expedition (1844) twenty-seven cases of See also:marbles were despatched to the British Museum . His See also:chief discoveries were at Xanthus, Pinara, Patara, Tlos, See also:Myra and See also:Olympus . In 1844 he presented to the British Museum his portfolios, accounts of his expeditions, and specimens of natural See also:history illustrative of Lycia . In 1845 he was knighted " as an See also:acknowledgment of his services in the removal of the Xanthian antiquities to this See also:country." He paid his own expenses in all his journeys and received no public See also:reward . Fellows was twice married . He died in London on the 8th of See also:November 186o . In addition to the works above mentioned, Fellows published the following: The Xanthian Marbles; their Acquisition and Trans-See also:mission to England (1843), a refutation of false statements that had been published ; An Account of the Ionic See also:Trophy See also:Monument excavated at Xanthus (1848); a cheap edition of his two See also:Journals, entitled Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, particularly in the See also:Province of Lycia (1852); and Coins of Ancient Lycia before the Reign of See also:Alexander; with an See also:Essay on the Relative See also:Dates of the Lycian Monuments in the British Museum (1855) . See C .

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Brown's Lives of See also:Nottinghamshire Worthies (1882), pp . 352-353, and Journ. of See also:Roy . Geog . See also:Soc., 1861 .

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