John Fenwick (radical)
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John Fenwick (baptised 1757 – 1823) was an English army officer, political radical and Irish nationalist writer. He was a close friend of William Godwin, a loyal associate of James Coigly, and the husband of Eliza Fenwick.[1]
Life
In mid-1801 Fenwick bought from Daniel Lovell a newspaper, the Albion and Evening Advertiser. He ran it with Charles Lamb, but publication ceased in August of that year.[1] He had known Lamb through Godwin, from the previous year.[2]
Works
- Memoirs of General Dumourier (1794), translator[3]
Fenwick wrote for Richard Phillips a biographical sketch of William Godwin, for Public Characters of 1799–1800, from personal acquaintance, and asserting Godwin's personal fame of the period.[1][4]
