John Charles Fenton
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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
- ^ "No. 13910". The Edinburgh Gazette. 17 April 1923.
- ^ "No. 14000". The Edinburgh Gazette. 26 February 1924.
- ^ "No. 14225". The Edinburgh Gazette. 23 April 1926.
- ^ "No. 34439". The London Gazette. 28 September 1937.
- ^ "No. 15918". The Edinburgh Gazette. 22 May 1942.
- ^ "No. 37119". The London Gazette (invalid
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