Background
Fenton-Cawthorne was born in 1753 to James Fenton of Lancaster, a barrister and his wife Elizabeth and educated at Queen's College, Oxford (1771) and Gray"s Inn (1792).
Fenton-Cawthorne was born in 1753 to James Fenton of Lancaster, a barrister and his wife Elizabeth and educated at Queen's College, Oxford (1771) and Gray"s Inn (1792).
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He succeeded to the Cawthorne estate in 1781 and took the additional surname of Cawthorne. He was first elected as an Member of Parliament for Lincoln in January 1783 and was an opponent of the abolition of the slave trade. On 27 November 1795, as Colonel of the Westminster Regiment of Middlesex Militia, Fenton-Cawthorne was arraigned before a court-martial on 14 charges including that of embezzling "marching guineas" paid to militia men of the British Army.
Foundation guilty on seven of the charges, he was cashiered as "unworthy of serving His Majesty in any military capacity whatever" having "acted fraudulently and in a scandalous and infamous manner".
Fenton-Cawthorne returned to Parliament in 1806 as Member of Parliament for Lancaster. Fenton-Cawthorne died on 1 March 1831 in Hanover Street, Hanover Square, London.
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