Biography

In his ear­ly years, Fel­lows lived at Broms­grove, Wor­ces­ter­shire. Joseph Bel­cher states he was a poor shoe mak­er, a mem­ber of the Bap­tist de­no­mi­na­tion, and that he lived in Birm­ing­ham.

Fellows wrote some 55 hymns, six of which ap­pear in John Rip­pon’s Se­lec­tion.

Works

• Grace Tri­um­phant, a Sac­red Po­em in Nine Books, 1770
• Bromsgrove El­e­gy, in Blank Verse, on the Death of Rev. G White­field, 1771
• An El­e­gy on the Death of Dr. Gill, 1771
• Hymns on Be­liev­ers’ Bap­tism (Birm­ing­ham: 1773)
• The Apos­tle Paul’s De­fence Be­fore Fe­lix, in Verse, 1775
• Hymns in a Great Va­ri­ety of Metres, on the Per­fect­ion of the Word of God and the Gos­pel of Je­sus Christ, 1776
• The His­to­ry of the Ho­ly Bi­ble, At­tempt­ed in Ea­sy Verse, 1777
• Six In­struct­ive Views of Be­liev­ers’, 1777
• A Fair and Im­par­tial En­qui­ry in­to the Rise, &c., of the Church of Rome, 1779
• A Pro­test­ant Ca­te­chism