Background
Feilden was the third son of Joseph Feilden and Margaret Leyland of Witton.
Feilden was the third son of Joseph Feilden and Margaret Leyland of Witton.
He was educated at Blackburn Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford.
He became a cotton mill owner and lived at Witton Hall. In 1798 he purchased the hamlet of Feniscowles south west of Blackburn, from Thomas Ainsworth. Feilden built the house of Feniscowles in Pleasington in a romantic valley on the banks of the River Darwen.
He also gave a site for a church at Feniscowles in 1840, and provided the stone for its construction.
At the 1841 general election, Feilden changed his allegiance to the Conservatives but was re-elected and remained Member of Parliament for Blackburn until the 1847 general election, when he did not stand. He did nothing to distinguish himself in the House of Commons in his fourteen years as a Member of Parliament In 1846, Feilden was created a baronet, of Feniscowles.
Feilden died at the age of 78. Feilden married Mary Haughton Jackson, daughter of Edmund Jackson, at Street Martin in the Fields on 30 March 1797.
Another son Montague Feilden also became Member of Parliament for Blackburn.
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At the 1832 general election, Feilden was elected as Liberal Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Blackburn.