Roger Fenwick (MP for Morpeth)


Roger Fenwick was an English politician.

Biography

Roger Fenwick was the eldest son of William Fenwick of Irthington, Cumberland and educated at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, matriculating on 25 June 1678, aged 16. He entered Grays's Inn in 1678 and was called to the bar in 1686. He inherited Stanton Hall, Northumberland from his grandfather in 1689.
Fenwick was a Member of Parliament for Morpeth from 1689 to 1695. He died aged approximately thirty-nine.

Family

Fenwick married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of George Fenwick of Brinkburn, Northumberland; they had four sons and two daughters.