Sir John Fellowes, 1st Baronet
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Sir John Fellowes, 1st Baronet (baptised 1670 – 1724) was an English merchant who was one of the founding directors of the South Sea Company.
Life
He was the fourth son of the London merchant William Fellowes and his wife Susannah Coulson, baptised 15 February 1670; William Fellowes was his elder brother. He traded in cochineal, but came to concentrate on work as a financier.
In 1712 Fellowes gave communion plate to St Michael Paternoster Royal, with his brother William. He was the residual heir of Thomas Coulson, his mother's brother, who died in 1713. Coulson was buried in a vault on the north side of the chancel of St Michael Paternoster Royal, built in 1712 by William and John Fellowes.
Seat at Carshalton House
John Radcliffe, who was on good terms with Coulson, bought a house at Carshalton from Edward Carlton, and died there in 1714. The house came into the ownership of the Daughters of the Cross. It is now part of St Philomena's Catholic High School for Girls.
Fellowes then purchased Carshalton House, in 1715.
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