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.

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

1. The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 13910. p. 587. 17 April 1923. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
2. The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 14000. pp. 291–292. 26 February 1924. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
3. The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 14225. p. 461. 23 April 1926. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
4. The London Gazette: no. 34439. p. 6016. 28 September 1937. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
5. The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 15918. p. 215. 22 May 1942. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
6. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 37119. p. 2933. 8 June 1945. Retrieved 11 January 2016.