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72 father, Dr. Samuel Fell, at that time Dean of the College, whose chair in the Deanery the son himself was to occupy, and most creditably, some years later. The younger Fell was expelled in 1648 for taking up arms in defence of the Royalist Cause. But he remained in Oxford, living in a house opposite Merton and persistently celebrating the rites of his church, under certain severe restrictions. After the Restoration he was promoted to a Canonry at Christ Church, and, in 1660, he became the Dean of the College, where he did much for the discipline of the undergraduates and for the advancement of learning in general. He was accused of being one of the authors of "The Whole Duty of Man," an impeachment to which, however, he never pleaded guilty ; although he made it his own Whole Duty to see that by the men under him, as much as was possible, their Whole Duty was done. He held the examiners up to their work, said Wood, and if they could not, or would not, do their Duty, he would do it himself to the putting down of many.

Fell is said to have planted the trees on the Old Broad Walk, in 1670, and to have been instrumental in the recasting of Great Tom, some ten years later. He was a good man, a good churchman, and a good friend to his college; but he is only remembered now by the paraphraser of some ancient Latin