About John Charles Fenton
Lived 1880 – 1951 (aged 70). John Charles Fenton was a lawyer.
Sir John Charles Fenton (5 May 1880 – 3 January 1951) was a Scottish lawyer.
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.
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 in the UK. He was later Sheriff of Fife and Kinross from 1926 to 1937, of Stirling, Dumbarton, and Clackmannan from 1937 to 1942, and the Lothians and Peebles. and Sheriff of Chancery in Scotland from 1942.
He was knighted in the 1945 Birthday Honours.
He died in Edinburgh on 3 January 1951.
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Scottish lawyer (1880–1951)
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