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 income, but he lived so extravagantly that in the end he had to accept assistance from his friends. He took up his business once more; but the fall in his fortunes and the loss of his independence had crushed him both in mind and body, and after a lingering illness he died at Chelmsford on 25 Feb. 1794 (Gent. Mag. lxiv. 182).

The following are Fearne's works: 1. ‘A historical legigraphical Chart of Landed Property in England, from the time of the Saxons to the present æra, displaying, at one view, the Tenures, Mode of Descent, and Power of Alienation of Lands in England at all times during the same period,’ 1769, reprinted 1791. 2. ‘An Impartial Answer to the Doctrine delivered in a Letter which appeared in the “Public Advertiser” on 19 Dec. 1769 under the signature “Junius,”’ 1770 (Watt, not in British Museum). 3. ‘An Essay on the Learning of Contingent Remainders and Executory Devises,’ first edit., 1772; second, 1773; third, 1776; fourth (part relating to ‘Contingent Remainders,’ containing opinions on will in Perrin v. Blake), 1791; fifth (with notes by Powell), 1795 (‘Executory Devises’), and 1801 (‘Contingent Remainders’); sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth (with notes by Butler), 1809, 1820, 1824, 1831; tenth (the standard edition, edited by J. W. Smith; the second volume consists of ‘An Original View of Executory Interests on Real and Personal Property,’ by the editor), two volumes, 1844. 4. ‘Copies of Opinions on the Will which was the subject of the case of Perrin v. Blake before the Court of King's Bench in 1769,’ 1780, and also in fourth edition of ‘Essay,’ 1791. In the first edition of the ‘Essay on Contingent Remainders’ Fearne had quoted an opinion of Lord Mansfield, written when solicitor-general, on the will in Perrin v. Blake. Lord Mansfield disavowed the opinion; Fearne replied by publishing it verbatim, together with the opinions of other eminent counsel taken about the same date, and succeeded in establishing its authenticity while ironically appearing to acknowledge that he and Mr. Booth, from whom he received it, had been mistaken (see, Chief Justices, ii. 434). 5. ‘The Posthumous Works of Charles Fearne, Esquire, Barrister-at-Law; consisting of a Reading on the Statute of Enrolments, Arguments in the singular case of General Stanwix, and a Collection of Cases and Opinions. Selected from the Author's Manuscripts by Thomas Mitchell Shadwell of Gray's Inn, Esquire,’ 1797.

[European Mag. August, September, and October 1799; Law Mag. i. 115; Butler's Reminiscences, i. 118; Butler's preface to 7th edit. of Essay.]  FEARY, JOHN (fl. 1770–1788), landscape-painter, obtained a premium from the Society of Arts in 1766 for a drawing from the Duke of Richmond's gallery (for artists under twenty-one), and in 1776 was awarded a large silver pallet for a landscape. He first appears as an exhibitor with the Free Society of Artists in 1770, sending ‘A View from Maise [Maze] Hill in Greenwich Park,’ and ‘A View of a Storm breaking from the Surrey side of Westminster Bridge;’ in 1771 he sent to the same exhibition ‘A View taken from Highgate Hill.’ In 1772 he appears as an exhibitor at the Royal Academy with ‘A View of Clapham Common, taken from the North Side,’ and he was a frequent contributor up to 1788, in which year he exhibited ‘A View of Castle Hill, Devonshire,’ after which he disappears. Feary, who was of deformed stature, is stated to have been a pupil of Richard Wilson, R.A. [q. v.], and his landscapes were very neatly finished. He was employed to paint views of the parks and mansions of the nobility and gentry, some of which have been engraved.

[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Graves's Dict. of Artists, 1760–1880; Catalogues of the Royal Academy and the Free Society of Artists; Smith's Nollekens and his Times, i. 361; manuscript notes by Mr. Anderdon in Royal Academy Catalogues, print room, British Museum.]  FEATHERSTON, ISAAC EARL (1813–1876), New Zealand statesman, fourth son of Thomas Featherston of Blackdean, Weardale, and Cotfield House, Durham, was born 21 March 1813, and educated at a private school in Tamworth. After spending some time abroad, he entered as a student at the Edinburgh University, studied medicine, and graduated M.D. in 1836. In 1839 he married, and the next year ill-health led him to migrate to New Zealand. He settled at Wellington, and soon became conspicuous by advocating the cause of the settlers who had purchased land under the New Zealand Company. In 1852, when their claims were admitted, his services were recognised by the presentation of an address and a piece of plate. The governor, Sir George Grey, opposing a scheme of constitution offered by Lord Grey, on the ground of probable difficulty with the Maoris, the Settlers' Constitutional Association, in which Featherston was prominent, was formed in 1849 to promote the measure. An act for this purpose was finally passed in 1852 by the imperial parliament, and in 1853 the New Zealand Constitution Act came into force. Featherston was elected superintendent of the province of Wellington, which office he retained