Feilden grad­u­at­ed from Christ Church Coll­ege, Ox­ford, in 1859, and in 1861 be­came as­sist­ant Cur­ate at Whit­ting­ton, Shrop­shire, un­der Will­iam How. In ad­di­tion to his pas­tor­al du­ties, Feil­den was a keen bo­tan­ist, and was pre­si­dent of the Of­fa Field Club (a lo­cal bo­tan­ic­al group formed in 1888), and was re­spon­si­ble for much of the da­ta and pop­u­la­tion work on wild flow­ers in the lo­cal­i­ty. His col­league Thom­as Dia­mond pub­lished Flora of Oswestry, their ac­count of the bo­ta­ny of the ar­ea, in 1891, though it seems Feil­den was the bo­tan­ist while Dia­mond was the col­la­tor. The book in­clud­ed the first re­cord­ing of Mount­ain Ev­er­last­ing (An­ten­nar­ia dio­i­ca) on Llany­myn­ech Hill, Jun­i­per (Junip­er­us com­mun­is) at Car­reg-y-big and Creep­ing Wil­low (Sa­lix re­pens) at Glo­pa.

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1. Eden