FENWICK, John (c.1612-44), of Hexham Abbey, Hexham, Northumb.

Family and Education

b. c. 1612, o.s. of Sir John Fenwick, 1st bt.* and 1st w. Catherine; half-bro. of William Fenwicke*.Vis. Northumb. ed. G. W. Marshall, 32. educ. Trinity, Camb. Easter 1628;Al Cant. G. Inn 28 Apr. 1630.G. Inn Admiss. 190. m. Mary (d. c.1680), da. of George Selby of Whitehouse, Ryton, co. Dur. s.p.Hist. Northumb. xii. 352; Hodgson, Northumb. pt. 3, i. 329; Durham Univ. Lib. DPR/I/1/1681/F5/1-2. d. 2 July 1644.Slingsby Diary ed. D. Parsons, 114.

Offices Held

Local: kpr. Hexham Castle 8 June 1629–d.E315/311, m. 15d. J.p. Northumb. 22 June 1637–d.C231/5, p. 248. Capt. militia horse by Mar. 1639–?E351/292; CSP Dom. 1640, p. 573. Gov. Hexham g.s. by Dec. 1643–d.Northumb. RO, ZMI/B1/I/20.

Military: capt. of horse, royal army, 1640;E351/293; CSP Dom. 1640, pp. 496, 599, 573. capt. of horse (roy.) by Jan. 1643–?;Certaine Informations no. 2 (23–30 Jan. 1643), 15 (E.86.35). col. of horse and dragoons by Feb. 1644–d.Luke Letter Bks. 588; P. Newman, Royalist Officers (1981), 130.

Parlimentarian

FENWICK, John (c.1612-44), of Hexham Abbey, Hexham, Northumb.

: of Hexham Abbey, Northumb., Hexham.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

FENWICK, John (c.1612-44), of Hexham Abbey, Hexham, Northumb.

Will

not found.

Estates

fa. appears to have settled upon him land inc. Broomhaugh, Dotland Park, Hexham demesne and Yarridge, Northumb. worth at least £23 p.a.Hodgson, Hist. Northumb. pt. 3, i. 329; J.H. Hill, The Hist. of Langton (Leicester, 1867), 218.

Oxford 1644

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