John Charles Fenton
Lawyer, Chivalric Order Member
1880 – 1951
Who was John Charles Fenton?
Sir John Charles Fenton was a Scottish lawyer.
The son of James Fenton, Edinburgh, and Elizabeth Jack, he was educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh, at Edinburgh University and at the Sorbonne
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 and was briefly Solicitor General for Scotland in the Labour Government of 1924. He was later Sheriff of Fife and Kinross from 1926-1937, of Stirling, Dumbarton, and Clackmannan from 1937-1942 and of the Lothians and Peebles and Sheriff of Chancery in Scotland from 1942.
He was knighted in 1945.
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