Background
He was born at Mahón, Minorca in 1812, the son of William Bowman Felton, and came to Lower Canada with his family in 1815.
He was born at Mahón, Minorca in 1812, the son of William Bowman Felton, and came to Lower Canada with his family in 1815.
Felton studied law at Quebec City with Andrew Stuart and Henry Black, was called to the bar in 1834 and set up practice at Quebec.
They settled near Sherbrooke. Felton served as crown attorney for Saint-François district from 1853 to 1861 and was bâtonnier for the district from 1861 to 1875. In 1854, he was named Queen"s Counsel.
In 1854, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for the united counties of Sherbrooke and Wolfe as a Liberal-Conservative.
He died at Sherbrooke in 1877.
He defended the system of separate schools in the province when Joseph Papin proposed a non-denominational school system.