Feniton

In 1854 Bishop Selwyn and his wife were in England pleading for support for their Church, and their visit to Feniton brought matters to a crisis.

Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

His mother's brother, Justice Coleridge, and many other relatives, lived close round the old town of Ottery St. Mary; and his father, an able lawyer who was raised to the Bench in 1830, bought an estate at Feniton and came to live in the same district before the boy was fifteen years old.

Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

The old judge, still living with his daughters at Feniton, had been stricken with a fatal disease, and in the last months of his life he rejoiced to know that his son was counted worthy of his high calling.

Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

At the end of the year he was ordained and took a curacy at Alphington, a hamlet between Feniton and Ottery.

Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

We had heard at Feniton dear Coley's first happy letters telling of his voyages to the islands in 1856-7, letters all aglow with enthusiasm about these places and people.

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873

In itself, it might not be all that the quitting home and family had been; but not only was there the difference between going and being left behind, but youth, with its spirit of enterprise and compensation, was past, and he was in a state to feel the pain of the separation almost more intensely than when he had walked from the door at Feniton, and gathered his last primrose at his mother's grave.

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873

What he had already seen of Dresden convinced him that he could there learn Hebrew more thoroughly and more cheaply than at home, and to this he intended to devote the Long Vacation of 1852, without returning to Feniton.

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873

There is no need to dwell on the spontaneous honours that all of those who had ever been connected with him paid to the good old Judge, when he was laid beside his much-loved wife in Feniton churchyard.

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873

Not a single fellow spoke except at the responses, which were well and audibly made, and really every fellow seemed to be really impressed with the awfulness of the ceremony, and the great wickedness of not piously receiving it, I do not know whether there will be another Sacrament here before the holidays, or whether I shall receive it with you at Feniton next time. '

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873

Hurrah! say I; now a precious deal more glad am I to leave Oxford for the holidays than Eton, though Feniton is better than either. '

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873