Joseph Mellen (born September 1939) is the British-born author of Bore Hole, a book about his attempts at self-trepanation, influenced by Bart Huges, and his eventual success with the help of his partner Amanda Feilding.[1] [2]
Mellen and Feilding lived together from the late 1960s until the early 1990s. They had two sons, Rock Basil Hugo Feilding-Mellen (born 1979) and Cosmo Birdie Feilding-Mellen (born 1985).[3] Rock Feilding-Mellen was a local councillor and cabinet member for housing, property and regeneration with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.[4] Following the Grenfell Tower fire and its aftermath, he resigned.
In 1994 Mellen met Jenny Gathorne-Hardy, who was trepanned in 1995.[5] Their son Rudy Blu was born in 1996 and they were married later that year; their daughter Lily was born in 2012.