Born at Kew Lodge, Weston super Mare, Somerset, 15 December 1878 fifth son of Samuel Fedden, of Ealing, and his wife Jane Gardiner. He was a capitation scholar at St Paul's School, and entered St George's Hospital in October 1895. He won the Treasurer's and Pollock prizes and the Thompson medal, and took honours in anatomy and surgery at the MB BS examination 1902. Fedden served as house physician, house surgeon, and obstetric assistant at St George's, and was appointed assistant surgeon in 1906. He became surgeon and lecturer on surgery in 1914, and consulting surgeon in 1934. He was surgeon to out-patients at the Hampstead General Hospital, surgeon to the Bolingbroke Hospital, Wandsworth, and consulting surgeon to the Victoria Hospital for Children, Chelsea. He examined in surgery for the Universities of Cambridge and London. During the early part of the war of 1914-18 he served in HMS *China* with the rank of Surgeon-Lieutenant RNVR. He practised at 14 Welbeck Street, and lived before his retirement at 95 Cromwell Road SW. Fedden married in 1920 Sybil Mary, daughter of the Rev W Haines, who survived him, but without children. He died suddenly at his home 5 Glenalmond House, Manor Fields, Putney, on 12 March 1952 aged 73. Publications: Facial tetanus *Clin J* 1911, 37, 356. Two cases of pulsating exophthalmos in which the carotid artery was ligatured, with R R James. *Lancet* 1912, 2, 237. Applied anatomy, in Gray's *Anatomy* 19th edition, 1916 and 20th edition, 1918.