John Fell, bishop of Oxford

(1625-1686)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Fell, John, 1625-1686 NRA: Fell John (1625-1686) Bishop of Oxford DNB: Fell, John (1625–1686), bishop of Oxford LBT ID: JoFell1686 VIAF ID: 73863567 LOC ID: n80013211	B/BAP: 1625-06-23 DIED: 1686-07-10
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He was Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and Bishop of Oxford (1676) commemorated in Tom Brown's lines “I do not love thee, Dr Fell, \| The reason why I cannot tell.”
REFERENCES TO John Fell, bishop of Oxford: Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) William Hazlitt XXII Found 1: ¶ 1 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 8 Found 1: ¶ 44