| Activity | Feilden was the second son of Sir William Henry Feilden (1812-1879), 2nd Baronet of Feniscowles. He was educated at Cheltenham College. After joining the Black Watch, at the age of nineteen, he fought in the suppression of the Indian Mutiny 1857-58 and at the Taku Forts in China in 1860. He also volunteered on the side of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War of 1862-1865, serving as assistant adjutant-general, and surrendering after the last battle of the war, with the remnant of the Army of Tennessee under General J. E. Johnston to General Sherman.
He then returned to the British Army, where he made captain in the Royal Artillery in 1874. He served in the First Boer War in 1881 and again in Africa in 1890. He was decorated for his service in India, China and South Africa, and was awarded the C.B. in 1900.
Feilden also collected information on the geology, flora and fauna of newly explored areas, and served as naturalist on Sir George Nares' Northern Polar Expedition in 1875 on board Alert. He was a fast friend of the famous writer and poet Rudyard Kipling.
In 1864, Feilden married Julia, daughter of Judge David MacCord of South Carolina. In 1880 Feilden settled in Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. Feilden joined the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society in 1880 and became President in 1885. He lived in Norfolk for over 20 years, moving to Burwash, Sussex in 1902. Feilden contributed to Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society and submitted scientific papers to The Zoologist and Ibis (the journal of the British Ornithologists' Union, to which he was elected in 1873), amongst others.
Feilden partook in expeditions to Novaya Zemlya, Kolguyev, Spitsbergen, Lapland and the Kara Sea between 1895 and 1897.
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