John Fenwick (MP for Morpeth)

Fenwick was the son of Sir John Fenwick, 1st Baronet of Wallington Hall, Northumberland; his mother Catherine was sister of 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]

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]

• Hodgson, John; Hodgson-Hinde, John (1827), A History of Northumberland: The topography and local antiquities, arranged in parishes, A History of Northumberland: In Three Parts, 1:2, E. Walker, p. 256
• Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 240, 247.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Plant, David. "Colonel John Fenwick's Troop of Dragoons". BCW Project. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
• Scott, David (2004). "Slingsby, Sir Henry, first baronet". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/25727. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)