William Fearon (priest)

The Ven William Andrewes Fearon, DD, MA (b Assington 4 February 1841[1] - d Winchester 29 April 1924)[2] was an eminent Anglican priest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

He was born into an ecclesiastical family,[3] educated at Winchester[4] and New College, Oxford,[5] where he was a Fellow from 1864 to 1867[6] and president of the Oxford Union in 1864.[7] He was ordained deacon in 1867[8] and priest the following year.[9] He had a tutor’s house at his old school from 1867 to 1882, during which time he married Mary Freeman, the daughter of an Archdeacon of Exeter[10] when he became Headmaster of Durham School.[11] He was Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Newcastle] from 1882 to 1884 when he returned to Winchester, where he was Headmaster until 1901. He was Archdeacon of Winchester from 1903 to 1920, Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Winchester from 1903 to 1915; and Canon of Winchester from 1906 until 1920.

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2. Dr. Fearon The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Apr 30, 1924; pg. 19; Issue 43639
3. His father was for many years Vicar of Assington > 'ASSINGTON' The Ipswich Journal (Ipswich, England), Saturday, March 22, 1884; Issue 8131
4. "Winchester College, 1836-1906 : a register" Wainewright,J.B Winchester J & B WQells, 1907
5. 'UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE' The Standard (London, England), Friday, October 14, 1859; pg. 6; Issue 10973
6. ‘FEARON, Rev. William Andrewes’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 5 April 2014
7. The Oxford Union, 1823-1923, p. 314
8. 'ECCLESIASTICAL' The Hampshire Advertiser (Southampton, England), Saturday, December 28, 1867; pg. 3; Issue 2313
9. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p 483: Horace Cox, London, 1908
10. 'Marriages' Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday, August 16, 1879; Issue 6596
11. Geograph