Obs. [see BY- 5.] A fellow of a college (in the University of Cambridge) not on the foundation, and having inferior privileges to a foundation fellow. Hence By-fellowship.
1856–7. Act 19 & 20 Vict., lxxxviii. § 50, in Oxf. & Camb. Enactm., 239. All actual Bye-Fellows excepted.
1589. in R. Potts, Liber Cantabrig. (1855), 209. [Andrew Perne D.D., formerly Master of the College, founded] two Bye-fellowships.
1846. M’Culloch, Acc. Brit. Empire (1854), II. 355. Queens’ College has nineteen fellowships, one by-fellowship, and numerous scholarships. Its head is styled president.
