Education
In 1859, the 12-year-old Fenwick was apprenticed to the newspaper Otago Witness, moving to the Otago Daily Times in 1861.
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Born in Sunderland, England, his family emigrated to Australia in 1852, and subsequently to Otago, New Zealand four years later. George Fenwick was appointed editor and manager in 1890, remaining editor until 1909, manager until 1919, and managing director until his death in 1929. Fenwick helped found the New Zealand Press Association.
This happened in his office.
He founded the Otago branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals). Fenwick was knighted in the 1919 Birthday Honours for public services, and invested by the Prince of Wales in 1920 during his visit to Dunedin.
Fenwick had married Jane Atlantic Proudfoot at Dunedin in 1874, and the engineer David Proudfoot thus became his brother-in-law. Businessman and environmentalist Rob Fenwick is his great-grandson.
