{{For|those of a similar name|Charles Fellows (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox military person |honorific_prefix = Vice-Admiral |name = Charles Fellowes |honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CB}} |birth_date=19 October 1823 |death_date={{death-date and age|8 March 1886|19 October 1823}} |birth_place= |death_place= |image= |caption= |nickname= |allegiance= {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom |service_years= 1836–1886 |rank= Vice-Admiral |commands=HMS ''Princess Royal''<br>HMS ''Revenge''<br>HMS ''Marlborough''<br>HMS ''Duke of Wellington''<br>HMS ''Duncan''<br>HMS ''Indus''<br>Channel Fleet |branch=23px Royal Navy |unit= |battles=Second Opium War |awards=Companion of the Order of the Bath |other_work= }} thumb|The grave of Vice Admiral Charles Fellowes, Dean Cemetery Vice-Admiral '''Charles Fellowes''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CB}} (19 October 1823 – 8 March 1886) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Channel Fleet.
==Naval career== Fellowes joined the Royal Navy in 1836.<ref name=loney>[https://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=1078 William Loney RN]</ref> He fought in the Second Opium War, and as Commander of HMS ''Cruizer'', is credited with having been the first person to climb the walls of Canton in 1856 before any other officer or man of the Naval Brigade.<ref>[http://www.pdavis.nl/China2.htm W.L. Clowes on the Second Anglo-Chinese War ("Opium war") of 1856 - 1860] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503184523/http://www.pdavis.nl/China2.htm |date=3 May 2012 }}</ref> The flag he seized was presented to Greenwich Hospital by Queen Victoria in 1859.<ref>[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110119161322/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/object.cfm?ID=AAA0727 Chinese Flag] National Maritime Museum</ref>
Promoted to captain in 1858, he was given command of HMS ''Princess Royal'', HMS ''Revenge'', HMS ''Marlborough'', HMS ''Duke of Wellington'', HMS ''Duncan'' and then HMS ''Indus''.<ref name=loney/> He was appointed Captain Superintendent of Chatham dockyard in 1874, Admiral Superintendent of Chatham dockyard in 1876 and Commander-in-Chief, Channel Fleet in 1885,<ref name=loney/> serving on HMS Minotaur. He died in that role the following year.<ref name=loney/>
He is buried in the south-west corner of the north section of Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh against the dividing wall to the earlier original cemetery.<ref name=grave>Details shown on Charles Fellowes' gravestone</ref>
==Family== In 1859 he married Louisa Garden Tod (1828–1908).<ref name=loney/> Their eldest son was Rev John Charles Fellowes MA (1860–1927).<ref name=grave/>
==See also== * {{cite wikisource |first=William Richard |last=O'Byrne |chapter=Fellowes, Charles |title=A Naval Biographical Dictionary |year=1849 |publisher=John Murray}}
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