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 . He retained his seat for life, being returned at the head of the poll in the contested election of 1741 (, Parliaments of England, i. 186). In August 1742 Fazakerley was appointed recorder of Preston, which office he also held until his death. His politics, however, prevented his attaining the honours of his profession; he never received even a silk gown.

Fazakerley entered parliament as an adherent of the tory party; he was a Jacobite of the cautious type. He was listened to with attention, and by a section of his party came to be regarded as a leader. In a debate on the convention with Spain, 9 March 1739, whereby peace was secured on payment by the Spanish government of a compensation to English traders, he declared that if Sir Robert Walpole ‘were determined to carry it by a majority, he would never again appear in the house till he perceived a change of measures’ (, Parliamentary Hist. x. 1318). He also distinguished himself in the debates in May 1751, on Lord Hardwicke's Regency Bill, especially by his resolute opposition to the marriage clause (ib. xiv. 1013–17). There is a story that Walpole prevailed on Lord Hardwicke, then Sir Philip Yorke, to quit the chief justiceship for the chancellorship, by the declaration: ‘If by one o'clock you do not accept my offer, Fazakerley by two becomes lord keeper of the great seal, and one of the staunchest whigs in all England!’ (, Memoirs of George II, i. 138 n.). Another of his speeches which attracted considerable attention was that delivered against the Jews' Naturalisation Bill, 7 May 1753 (, xiv. 1402–12). Fazakerley died at his house in Grosvenor Street, London, in February 1767 (Scots Mag. xxix. 110; London Mag. xxxvi. 125–6, 147; Probate Act Book, P. C. C., 1767). His will was proved at London on 16 March following (registered in P. C. C. 95, Legard). He married 10 Oct. 1723 Ann Lutwyche, who survived him (, Londinium Redivivum, iv. 294). He had a son and a daughter. The son died 30 June 1737 (Gent. Mag. vii. 451). Elizabeth, the daughter, was married 23 Dec. 1744, ‘with 16,000l. down,’ to Granville, eldest surviving son of John, first earl Gower, and died 19 May 1745 (ib. xv. 51;, Peerage, ed. Brydges, ii. 450). A portrait of Fazakerley by Anthony Devis now hangs in the reading-room of Dr. Shepherd's Library at Preston. His clerk, Robert Boulton, left him at his death in 1760 the sum of 50l. with which to present his picture ‘drawn at full length with a handsome frame to the corporation of Preston, in order to be set up in the Town Hall of the said borough as a memorandum that the said Corporation had once an honest man to represent them in parliament’ (will of Robert Boulton, registered in P. C. C. 90, Lynch;, Hist. of Parliamentary Representation of Preston, 2nd edit., pp. 31–3).

 FEAD, GEORGE (1729?–1815), lieutenant-general, colonel-commandant fourth battalion royal artillery, entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, as a cadet 1 Sept. 1756, became a lieutenant-fireworker royal artillery 8 June 1756, second lieutenant 1760, first lieutenant 1764, captain-lieutenant 1771, captain 1779, brevet major 1783, regimental major 1792, lieutenant-colonel 1793, brevet colonel 1797, regimental colonel 1799, major-general 1803, lieutenant-general 1810. As a lieutenant-fireworker he was present at the famous siege of Louisburg, Cape Breton, in 1758. He was afterwards taken prisoner at Newfoundland, but exchanged. Returning a second time to America he served there six or seven years, part of the time at Pensacola. He served in Minorca from 1774 to 1781, and commanded the artillery during the memorable defence of Fort St. Philip from August 1780 to February 1781, during which he lost an eye by the bursting of a shell. He was one of the witnesses on the trial of Lieutenant-general Hon. James Murray, the governor, on charges preferred by Sir [q. v.] He went to Newfoundland a second time in 1790, and in 1794 served under the Duke of York in Flanders. He went to Jamaica in 1799 and commanded the artillery there many years. He was made lieutenant-governor of Port Royal in 1810. Fead died at his residence, Woolwich Common, 20 Nov. 1815, in the eighty-sixth year of his age and the fifty-eighth of his military service, thirty years of which had been passed abroad. He had nine sons in the service, several of whom were killed or died on duty abroad.

 FEAKE, CHRISTOPHER (fl. 1645-1660), Fifth-monarchy man, began public life as an independent minister. His earlier history