FEILDEN, Montague Joseph (1816-1898), of Feniscowles, Blackburn, Lancs.

b. 8 May 1816, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of William Feilden, MP (d. 17 May 1850), of Feniscowles, Blackburn, Lancs., and Mary Haughton, eld. da. of Edmund Jackson, of Southfield, and Woodlands, Jamaica. educ. by Rev. W. Rawson, nr. Liverpool, Lancs; Blackburn grammar sch.; by Rev. Canon W. Casson, Chester.R.D.S. Wilson, The Feildens of Witton Park [1983], 72, states that Feilden attended Eton where he was a contemporary of Gladstone, but he does not appear on the Eton school list. m. (1) 8 Jan. 1846, Mary Anne (d. 21 Sept. 1859), o. da. and h. of William Valentine, of Wood House, Cuerdale, Lancs. 1s. (d.v.p.) 1da. (d.v.p.)Feilden’s wife gave birth to twins in 1858, but as she is listed in family pedigrees as d.s.p. and no further mention of these children has been found, it is assumed that they died in infancy: Morning Post, 17 Apr. 1858; R. Assheton, Pedigree of the family of Feilden, of the county of Lancaster (1879), 16. (2) 26 Oct. 1865, Alice, da. of James Thoume, of Bon Air, Guernsey, 1s.; ?3 illegit. s. d. 17 Oct. 1898.