Sir John Charles Fenton KC (5 May 1880 – 3 January 1951) was a Scottish lawyer.

He was educated at George Watson's College, at the University of Edinburgh and at the Sorbonne, in Paris.

After service in World War I, he was appointed a King's Counsel in 1923[2] and from February[3] to November 1924 he was Solicitor General for Scotland in the first Labour Government in the UK.

He was later Sheriff of Fife and Kinross from 1926 to 1937,[4] of Stirling, Dumbarton, and Clackmannan from 1937 to 1942,[5] and the Lothians and Peebles.

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