Ancestry database, accessed 9 Feb 2024: (Judge Thomas Howard Fellows; Birth date: 21 Oct. 1822; Birth place: Rickmansworth, Three Rivers District, Hertfordshire, England; Death date: 8 Apr. 1878; Death place: South Yarra, Melbourne City, Victoria, Australia)
ADB online accessed 9 Feb 2024: (Thomas Howard Fellows (1822-1878), politician and judge, was born in October 1822 at Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England; He sailed to Melbourne in the Kent, arriving in April 1853. He was admitted to the Victorian Bar in May, and although inclined first to seek a police magistracy, he persevered at his practice, and after a pro-squatter judgment was appointed standing counsel to the Pastoral Association; In 1870 he was appointed a trustee of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery; Fellows's legal career culminated with his appointment as fifth judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria in December 1872; Fellows was a Prahran councillor in 1861-64 and, because of his attachment to Queenscliff where he spent his summers, was elected one of the first borough councillors in 1863 and mayor in 1865; he died on 8 April 1878 at his home in South Yarra) https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/fellows-thomas-howard-3507