William Fellowes

William Fellowes (1660–1724) was an English barrister, a Master in Chancery from 1707. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1704. Life He was the son of William Fellowes of London, born 4 October 1660. his mother was Susanna Coulson, daughter of William Coulson of Greenwich, and sister of Thomas Coulson the Member of Parliament. He was educated at Enfield Grammar School, under Robert Uvedale. He matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1677. In 1678 he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn, and he was called to the bar in 1686. In 1700 Fellowes was one of the trustees of forfeited estates in Ireland, in connection with the Crown Lands, Forfeited Estates Act 1698. Fellowes was left money in the will of his father-in-law, who died in 1718, with a requirement it should be spent on property in Devon. That year he bought the manor of Eggesford in Devon, from Arthur St Leger; and rebuilt Eggesford House there. In the early 1720s Fellowes bought Shotesham Park in Norfolk, for his third son, William. At the end of his life he owned £20,000 in East India Company stock.