John Charles 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.[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. He was later Sheriff of Fife and Kinross from 1926–1937,[3] of Stirling, Dumbarton, and Clackmannan from 1937–1942,[4] and the Lothians and Peebles[5] and Sheriff of Chancery in Scotland from 1942.
He was knighted in 1945.[6]
References
- ↑ The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 13910. p. 587. 17 April 1923. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
- ↑ The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 14000. pp. 291–292. 26 February 1924. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
- ↑ The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 14225. p. 461. 23 April 1926. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 34439. p. 6016. 28 September 1937. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
- ↑ The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 15918. p. 215. 22 May 1942. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 37119. p. 2933. 8 June 1945. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
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