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]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Clemit, Pamela; McAuley, Jenny. "Fenwick, John (bap. 1757, d. 1823)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/109199. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ↑ James, Felicity (2 September 2008). Charles Lamb, Coleridge and Wordsworth: Reading Friendship in the 1790s. Springer. p. 181. ISBN 978-0-230-58326-9.
  3. ↑ Dumouriez, Charles François Duperrier (1794). Memoirs of General Dumourier ... Translated by John Fenwick. J. Milliken.
  4. ↑ Guest, Harriet (October 2013). Unbounded Attachment: Sentiment and Politics in the Age of the French Revolution. OUP Oxford. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-19-968681-0.
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