John Fenwick (MP for Morpeth)

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, vol. 1, 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.
• 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, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)