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  appointed Hydrographer to the Admiralty in May 1829. 

 the battle of Navarin, his present Majesty, then Lord High Admiral, presented this officer with a sword, bearing the royal arms on one side the guard, and his own arms on the other.

Captain Fellowes returned hoiae from the Mediterranean in Feb. 1830; and paid off the Dartmouth frigate, at Chatham, on the 15th of the following month. On the 23d June in the same year, the honorary degree of Doctor in Civil Law was conferred on him at Oxford. Dr. Bliss, Deputy Professor, in presenting him to the heads of the University, after Viscount Combermere, observed, – “You behold another chieftain, glorious as a conqueror like the former, though he has warred upon another element. Covered like the former with insignia, which display the gratitude of foreign courts and nations, his glory is not only that of conquest, but that of having preserved from death by fire and water, thousands, not only of his friends and fellow-countrymen, but even of inveterate enemies; thus fixing the banner of mercy and love on the hostile mast of deadly enmity.” 

 officer was appointed one of the captains of the Royal Hospital, Greenwich, on the 15th Oct. 1830. His eldest son, Thomas, midshipman of the Cordelia sloop, died at Malta in June 1833, aged 18 years. Possessing the most amiable and gentlemanly qualities, he was loved and esteemed by all who knew him.

