Feilden was born in
Blackburn, the son of Henry Feilden of
Witton Park, Blackburn, and his wife Fanny, daughter of William Hill of
Blythe Hall, Lathom. He held a commission as a captain in the 1st Lancashire Militia 1812-16 and was appointed
High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1818. He was elected to represent Blackburn as a Conservative at the
1865 general election and re-elected at the
1868 general election, but his election was overturned
on petition in 1869 and he was unseated. Feilden was thus unseated, and did not contest the following election. His eldest son
Henry Master Feilden (1818-1875) was elected as the Member of Parliament for Blackburn in
the subsequent by-election the petition, and held the seat until his death in 1875. His relatives
Sir William Feilden, 1st Baronet of Witton Park, and his son
Montague Joseph Feilden, had represented Blackburn from 1832 to 1835 and 1853 to 1857, both as Whigs; Montague Joseph contested the 1868 election against his cousin as a Liberal. A cousin on his mother's side, Richard Willis, inherited a share of the
Green Park and Spring Vale slave estates in Jamaica, and claimed around £13,500 compensation under the
Slavery Abolition Act 1833; Feilden was the trustee for their claims. Feilden died in 1870, leaving an estate of around £100,000. ==References==