Name John Fenton | ||
Sir John Charles Fenton (5 May 1880 – 3 January 1951) 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 from February to November 1924 he was Solicitor General for Scotland in the first Labour Government. He was later Sheriff of Fife and Kinross from 1926–1937, of Stirling, Dumbarton, and Clackmannan from 1937–1942, and the Lothians and Peebles and Sheriff of Chancery in Scotland from 1942.
He was knighted in 1945.
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