Education
He was educated at Christ Church.
He was educated at Christ Church.
He became dean of Christ Church in 1660, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford in 1666, and Bishop of Oxford in 1676. During the civil war in which King Charles I was beheaded and Oliver Cromwell installed as head of the Commonwealth, Fell remained loyal to the Crown and a faithful servant of the Church of England. He used his vast energies and his personal funds to develop a building program and the University Press at Oxford. His most important publication was an edition of the works of St. Cyprian (Oxford, 1682). Thomas Brown, author of the Dialogues of the Dead, embalmed Fell's memory for posterity with an epigram, beginning "I do not love thee, Dr. Fell."