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[1] [2] In 1648, John Fenwick married Elizabeth Covert, who gave birth to three daughters: Elizabeth, Anne and Priscilla. [1] [2] In 1665, John and Elizabeth Fenwick joined the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers. [2] After Elizabeth's death, John Fenwick married Mary Burdet, his second wife and daughter of Sir Walter Burdet. They had no ...
Sir John Fenwick, 3rd Baronet (c. 1645 – 28 January 1697) was an English Army officer and politician. He succeeded to the Fenwick baronetcy after the death of his father, Sir William Fenwick . A supporter of the Jacobite cause , Fenwick was involved in a conspiracy to assassinate William III of England , and was executed by beheading in 1697 ...
John Fenwick may refer to: John Fenwick (14th century MP) for Northumberland (UK Parliament constituency) Sir John Fenwick, 1st Baronet (c. 1570–1658), English landowner; John Fenwick (MP for Morpeth) (d. 1644), English politician and soldier who was killed at the Battle of Marston Moor; John Fenwick (Quaker) (1618–1683), English founder of ...
John Fenwick was the only son of Sir John Fenwick, 1st Baronet of Wallington Hall, Northumberland, and his first wife Katherine (1584-1616), sister to Sir Henry Slingsby, executed in 1658 for his part in a Royalist conspiracy. [1] He married Mary, daughter of Sir George Selby, of Whitehouse, County Durham. [2]
Out of gratitude to King James for sparing his life, Goodman became a Jacobite, and on the death of Queen Mary was connected with the Fenwick–Charnock plot to kill William III (1695–96). When the scheme was discovered, Goodman, who was committed to the Gatehouse Prison, was offered a free pardon if he would inform against Sir John Fenwick.
John Fenwick, real surname Caldwell (1628–20 June 1679) was an English Jesuit, executed at the time of the fabricated Popish Plot. He is a Catholic martyr ...
Mary's death at the end of 1694 revived their interest in direct action in England, and finance from France arrived by April 1695. Fenwick, however, was opposed to the schemes proposed by Charnock and his group. Meeting in May with Sir John Friend and others, he sent Charnock to France to move a plan for a massive invasion, instead. In June ...
In 1997 Fenwick and businessman colleague John Beattie bought Queen Mary Hospital in Hanmer Springs after the local health authority wanted to close it. [33] Fenwick's motivation was because he had had a close family member treated at Queen Mary, which was a national residential treatment centre for alcoholism and addictions. [33]