John Fenwick
Battle of Marston Moor, where Fenwick was killed on 2 July 1644
Member of Parliament
for Morpeth
In office
November 1640  January 1644 (excluded)
Personal details
Born14 January 1602
Wallington Hall Yorkshire
Died2 July 1644(1644-07-02) (aged 42)
Long Marston, North Yorkshire
NationalityEnglish
SpouseMary Selby
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
OccupationMP and soldier
Military service
Allegiance Royalist
RankColonel
UnitColonel John Fenwick’s Troop of Dragoons
Battles/warsFirst English Civil War
Skirmish at Corbridge; Siege of Newcastle; Battle of Marston Moor  

John Fenwick (14 January 1602 to 2 July 1644) was a Member of Parliament from Northumberland, killed serving in the Royalist army during the First English Civil War.

Personal details

John Fenwick was the only son of Sir John Fenwick, 1st Baronet of Wallington Hall, Northumberland, and his first wife Katherine (1584-1616), sister to Sir Henry Slingsby, executed in 1658 for his part in a Royalist conspiracy.[1]

He married Mary, daughter of Sir George Selby, of Whitehouse, County Durham.[2]

Career

Fenwick matriculated from Trinity College, Cambridge at Easter 1628. He was admitted at Gray's Inn on 28 April 1630.[2]

In November 1640, Fenwick was elected Member of Parliament for Morpeth, Northumberland in the Long Parliament.[3] In early 1644, he raised a troop of dragoons for the Royalist Northern Army; [4] and was excluded from Parliament on 22 January 1644.

His troop was at the siege of Newcastle, and a skirmish near Corbridge in 1644.[5] He was killed at the Battle of Marston Moor on 2 July 1644.[2]

References

  1. Scott 2004.
  2. 1 2 3 "Fenwick, John (FNWK628J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. Willis 1750, p. 234.
  4. Plant.
  5. Hodgson & Hodgson-Hinde 1827, p. 256.

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