John Frederick Feeney (1807–1869) was a British journalist and newspaper proprietor. Spending most of his adult life in

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands, within the wider West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, in England. It is the Lis ...

, England, he owned the '' Birmingham Journal'' and, with John Jaffray, founded the ''

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''. He emigrated from

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in 1836 to England via Liverpool and changed the spelling of his surname from Feeny. He was one of ten children born to John Feeny and Jane Mulvogue, originally from

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, Ireland.

Family

His daughter Florence Feeney married Alexander Inglis of

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and Redhall. Their children (Feeney's grandchildren) included Charles Edward Inglis FRS and

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References

*A. McCulloch, ''The Feeneys of the ''Birmingham Post (Birmingham University Press 2004). 1807 births 1869 deaths 19th-century British newspaper publishers (people) 19th-century British newspaper founders Writers from County Sligo {{Publish-bio-stub