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Sir John Charles Fenton KC (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 1945.

References

1. "No. 13910". The Edinburgh Gazette. 17 April 1923. p. 587.
2. "No. 14000". The Edinburgh Gazette. 26 February 1924. pp. 291–292.
3. "No. 14225". The Edinburgh Gazette. 23 April 1926. p. 461.
4. "No. 34439". The London Gazette. 28 September 1937. p. 6016.
5. "No. 15918". The Edinburgh Gazette. 22 May 1942. p. 215.
6. "No. 37119". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 June 1945. p. 2934.

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