Fell first stood for Parliament in
a by-election for the seat of Brigg in 1948, but was defeated by
Labour's Lance Mallalieu. He stood in
another by-election a year later for
Hammersmith South, but was beaten by
Thomas Williams, as he was in the
1950 General Election. He was elected at the
1951 general election as
Member of Parliament (MP) for
Great Yarmouth, a seat which had been held at the start of the 20th century by his grandfather
Sir Arthur Fell. In 1957 he resigned the Conservative whip along with eight other Conservative Members of Parliament in protest at the reopening of the Suez Canal under Egyptian ownership. Yarmouth returned him to the Commons at three further elections. At the
1966 general election, Labour's
Hugh Gray won the seat, with a majority of 797. Fell regained the seat at the
1970 general election, with a majority of over 3,000, and retained it through three further elections until he retired, aged 69, at the
1983 general election. He was knighted in 1982. His successor was
Michael Carttiss, another Conservative. Fell was a member of the
Conservative Monday Club. ==References==