Author: Fenton, George Livingstone
Biography:
FENTON, George Livingstone (1812-98: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 4 June 1812 at Torpenhow, the fifth of at least eight children of the Rev. John Fenton and his wife Anne Livingstone, who had married in 1801. He attended the local Grammar School at Penrith and went on to Trinity College Dublin in 1832 (BA 1836, MA 1870). While still at college, he published Midnight in London (1833) with his elder brother, Alexander Wilfrid Fenton (q.v.), who wrote the preface. After college he was first curate then vicar of Lilleshall, Shropshire, 1837-47. (He returned there in Aug. 1883, was still remembered with affection, and preached a sermon to a packed congregation.) He married Mary Anne Lloyd on 19 Dec. 1843 at St. John’s, Paddington, They had at least ten children. He was Chaplain at St. Mary’s, Poona, Bombay, 1847-66 and then at the English Church in San Remo, on the Italian Riviera, 1868-85. His wife died there, 8 Apr. 1871 and over fifteen years later, he married a young Irishwoman, Idaline Harriet Leonore Radcliffe, on 26 Mar. 1887 at the English Church in Genoa. He died 3 Nov. 1898 at Casa Carli, Hawkwood Road, Boscombe, near Bournemouth, Hampshire. His wife survived him and died at their home in 1920. His other publications all appeared while he was in India. They include a few sermons and biographical notices, a lecture, and one more collection of verse, Weeds of Poesy (Bombay 1860). (ancestry.co.uk 26 Jun. 2021; CCEd 26 Jun. 2021;Alumni Dublinenses [1935]; Simms; Staffordshire Poets; London Evening Standard 21 Dec. 1843; Morning Post 5 Feb. 1847; Reading Mercury 20 May 1871; Wellington Journal 1 Sept. 1883; Dublin Daily Express 30 May, 1887; Christchurch Times 28 Jan. 1899) AA
Other Names:
- G. L. Fenton