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FENN, JAMES, son of Hugh Fenn, Stratford, Essex; b.; adm.; KS (aged 15) 1656; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxford 1659, matr. 11 Apr 1660, Westminster Student (still 1672); BA 1663; MA 1666; ordained (by 1672); Vicar of St. Margaret’s, Rochester, Kent, 1672/3- 6; Vicar of Goudhurst, Kent, from 8 Nov 1676; d. 1709.

Fenn, William Wilthew; son of William Hugh Fenn, Secretary to Royal Free Hospital, London, and Treasurer to Covent Garden Opera, and Mary --- (IGI) ; b. 6 Jun 1827 ; a landscape painter ; Drawing Master by Jun 1862 – Dec 1864 ; blindness in the mid 1860s caused him to earn his living from then onwards as a writer for periodicals ; living Great Marlborough Street, London, in 1881 (1881 Census) ; m. 1 Jan 1867 Elizabeth Susan Eleanor, youngest dau. of Rev.Henry Robert Bowles, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, Unitarian minister ; d. 19 Dec 1906.

Fenton, Frank Charles, son of Charles Fleischmann, of Hampstead; b. Sept. 14, 1898; adm. May 2, 1913 (R); left Dec. 1915; assumed the surname of Fenton in lieu of Fleischmann; enlisted in the E. Surrey Regt. April 1917; temp. 2nd Lieut. M.G.C. Nov. 28, 1917; served in France with the 51st M.G.C. May 1918 to Oct. 1918, when he was wounded at Cambrai; M.C. Oct. 25, 1918; 2nd Lieut. (Special List) from T.A.R.O. Sept. 3, 1939; temp. Capt. transferred to Intelligence Corps July 15, 1940; m. Sept. 26, 1945, Bridget M. Trevor, only child of the Rev. John Trevor Lewis, Vicar of All Saints, Northampton, and Hon. Canon of Peterborough; d. 26 Feb. 1960.

FENTON, GEORGE, son of James Fenton, The Glass House and Loversal, Leeds, Yorks., and Thomasine, sixth dau. of Sir Henry Ibbetson, Bart.; bapt. Rothwell, Yorks. 27 Feb 1795 (IGI); adm. 13 Feb 1806; KS (aged 14) 1809; left 1811; Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 11 Mar 1813; BA 1817; ordained; Vicar of Roystone, Yorks., from 26 Mar 1836; m. 1833 Lydia, youngest dau. of Rev. R. Williamson BD, Skircoat, Halifax, Yorks.; d. 7 Apr 1843.

FENTON, SAMUEL, son of Rev. Timothy Fenton, Rector of St. Peter’s, Nottingham and Prebendary of Southwell, and Martha, widow of Daniel Chadwick (qv), and dau. of Isaac King, Hertford; bapt. 16 Nov 1699; adm. (aged 13) May 1715; KS 1716; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1720, adm. pens. 18 Jun 1720, scholar 21 Apr 1721; 9th in “ordo” 1723/4; BA 1723/4; MA 1728; ordained deacon 5 Jun 1726, priest 25 Sep 1726 (both Lincoln); Curate, Keysoe, Beds., 1726, and Little Staughton, Beds., 1726.

FENWICK, ---; b.; in school list 1803; left 1807.

FENWICK, JAMES, son of John Fenwick, London; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1763; left Easter 1765.

FENWICK, ROBERT, son of Nicholas Fenwick MP, for several years Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and his second wife Elizabeth, only dau. of Sir James Clavering, Bart.; bapt. 2 Mar 1716/7; adm. (aged 13) Feb 1730/1; left 1733; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 8 May 1735; of Lemington, Northumberland; High Sheriff, Northumberland 1753; m. 10 Dec 1746 Isabella, widow of John Forster, Adderstone, Northumberland, and dau. of William Orde MP, Sandybank, co. Durham; d. 20 Oct 1802.

FENWICK, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 13) Apr 1717.