Fellows

Fellows, SIR CHARLES, English archaeologist, was born at Nottingham in 1799. Devoting himself to the work of exploration in the western peninsula of Asia Minor, and along the course of the ancient Xanthus, he discovered (1838) the ruins of the city of Xanthus, formerly the capital of Lycia, and those of the ancient Tlos. Having made drawings of some of the fine remains of architecture and sculpture which he found in these cities, and copies of some of the inscriptions, Fellows returned to England, and published A Journal written during an Excursion in Asia Minor (1839). In the course of another visit to Lycia in 1839 he discovered the ruins of no less than thirteen cities, each of which contained works of art, and which he described in An Account of Discoveries in Lycia (1841). Under the auspices of the British Museum, Fellows went out to Lycia twice, in 1841-44, for the purpose of selecting works of art, and marbles and casts, from the cities he had discovered. Knighted in 1845, he died at Nottingham, 8th November 1860. Besides his Journals, he wrote The Xanthian Marbles (1843), An Account of the Ionic Trophy Monument excavated at Xanthus (1848), and Coins of Ancient Lycia before the Reign of Alexander; with an Essay on the Lycian Monuments in the British Museum (1855).