Allan Fea

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Allan Fea (25 May 1860 – 9 June 1956) was a British historian and antiquary who wrote about the English Civil Wars and the House of Stuart. He began his career as a clerk at the Bank of England. Fea was born in St Pancras, London, to William and Marie Fea of Kentish Town and was baptized at five weeks old. In 1893 he married Louisa Hallmark; they had no children. A nephew named after Fea, Allan William Francis Fea, died in 1894. By 1901 Fea was living in Newnham, Kent, and described himself as a retired bank clerk. In 1911 he lived at South Lodge, Pinner, with his wife and one servant, calling himself a retired bank clerk and author. His wife died in 1942. Fea developed an interest in priest holes and hiding places after visiting Sharsted Court near Newnham, and he became a prolific writer of historical books. He died in Whitstable, Kent, in 1956, aged 96. Probate went to his nephew Cyril Alfred Fea, a bank official. The National Portrait Gallery has a photograph of Fea by Walter Stoneman from 1916.