Robert Fellowes

Robert Fellowes (1771-1847) served many years as Curate of Harbury, near Southam, Warwickshire.  The passages quoted (with considerable deletions and conflations on Flower’s part), are from 89-94, 97-99, 102-04 (2nd ed., 1799).  Among his writings was a pamphlet titled, On French infidelity (1799); An Address to the People, on the Present Relative Situations of England and France; with Reflections on the Genius of Democracy, and on Parliamentary Reform (1799); Morality united with Policy; or, Reflections on the Old and New Government of France; and on Various Important Topics of Civil and Ecclesiastical Reform (1800); and Religion without Cant, or, A Preservative against Lukewarmness and Intolerance, Fanaticism, Superstition, and Impiety (1801). The latter work did not please Benjamin Flower, who argued that Fellowes’s work should have been titled “Religion without integrity,” for in it Fellowes argues that a Church of England minister could very easily remain in the church though espousing few of the cardinal doctrines of the church.  Fellowes would later edit the Critical Review (1804-11).