Dr. Thomas Fell

"President of St. John's College, Maryland, His father, after whom he was named, had been a staff surgeon in the English army, and was killed in Russia during the Crimean War, in 1855. As a boy, much of his time was spent in the country, where he led a healthy and vigorous life such as is common to the country boy who is devoted to out-of-door sports; and he gave a considerable part of each day to reading and study. His early education was received at the Royal Institution school, at Liverpool, where he was enrolled from 1857 to 1866. After completing his preparatory studies he went to London, and in 1866 was matriculated at King's College."

"Dr. Fell was chosen president of St. John's College in 1886; and he has served the (college in that capacity continuously ever since. When he went to the Annapolis institution, St. John's College had as brilliant a history as any educational institution in the state. Founded in 1784, during a large part of the first century of its life, it had been the training school at which many of the most talented and many of the most fashionable young men of Maryland received their education. But the city of Annapolis had gradually lost many of the features which in earlier days had attracted students to the state capital; and the college in consequence was slowly losing its prominence." from findagrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65425321/thomas-fell