Sir John Charles Fenton KC (5 May 1880 – 3 January 1951) was a Scottish lawyer.
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Biography
Fenton was born 5 May 1880, the son of Elizabeth Jack and James Fenton of Edinburgh. He was educated at George Watson's College, at the University of Edinburgh and at the Sorbonne, in Paris.[citation needed]
He was admitted as a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1904. After service in World War I, he was appointed a King's Counsel in 1923[1] and from February[2] to November 1924 he was Solicitor General for Scotland in the first Labour Government in the UK. He was later Sheriff of Fife and Kinross from 1926 to 1937,[3] of Stirling, Dumbarton, and Clackmannan from 1937 to 1942,[4] and the Lothians and Peebles.[5] and Sheriff of Chancery in Scotland from 1942.
He was knighted in 1945.[6]
References
- ^ "No. 13910". The Edinburgh Gazette. 17 April 1923. p. 587.
- ^ "No. 14000". The Edinburgh Gazette. 26 February 1924. pp. 291–292.
- ^ "No. 14225". The Edinburgh Gazette. 23 April 1926. p. 461.
- ^ "No. 34439". The London Gazette. 28 September 1937. p. 6016.
- ^ "No. 15918". The Edinburgh Gazette. 22 May 1942. p. 215.
- ^ "No. 37119". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 June 1945. p. 2934.
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