FELLOWS, SIR CHARLES (1799-186o), British archaeo logist, was born at Nottingham, where his family had an estate. In 1827 he discovered the modern ascent of Mont Blanc. He trav elled in Italy, Greece and the Levant, and many of his sketches were used in illustrating Childe Harold. In 1838 he went to Asia Minor, making Smyrna his headquarters. He entered Lycia and explored the Xanthus from the mouth at Patara upwards. Nine miles from Patara he discovered the ruins of Xanthus, the ancient capital of Lycia, and about 15m. farther the ruins of Tlos. He published his results in A Journal written during an Excursion in Asia Minor (1839) and late in 1839, under the auspices of the British Museum, again set out for Lycia, accompanied by George Scharf, who assisted him in sketching. This second visit resulted in the discovery of 13 ancient cities, and in 1841 appeared An Account of Discoveries in Lycia, being a Journal kept during a Second Excursion in Asia Minor. A third visit was made late in 1841, after Fellows had obtained a firman by personal application at Constantinople. He shipped a number of works of art for England, and in the fourth and most famous expedition (1844) 27 cases of marbles were despatched to the British Museum. His chief discoveries were at Xanthus, Pinara, Patara, Tlos, Myra and Olympus. In 1845 he was knighted, and died in London on Nov. 8, 186o.
In addition to the works above mentioned, Fellows published the following : The Xanthian Marbles; their Acquisition and Transmission to England (1843) , a refutation of false statements that had been published; An Account of the Ionic Trophy Monu ment excavated at Xanthus (1848) ; a cheap edition of his two Journals, entitled Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, particu larly in the Province of Lycia (185 2) ; and Coins of Ancient Lycia before the Reign of Alexander; with an Essay on the Relative Dates of the Lycian Monuments in the British Museum (1855). See C. Brown, Lives of Nottinghamshire Worthies (1882), pp. and fount. of Roy. Geog. Soc., 1861.