Author: Fenwick, Robert Orde
Biography:
FENWICK, Robert Orde (1787-1855: ancestry.co.uk)
He appears in the Eton School register for 1802 as being the son of Fenwick of Lemington, Northumberland. No birth record has been located but he was born in about 1786 to Nicholas Orde Fenwick and his wife Dorothy Forster. He was appointed Cornet in the 2nd Dragoons in 1803 and Lieutenant in 1806; he resigned in 1807. On 2 May 1812 at St. George, Hanover Square, London, he married Louisa Jones of the parish of Winkfield, Berkshire. They had at least one child, a daughter. He lived in France and in Bath where he died on 11 Feb. 1855 and was buried in Lansdown cemetery. His poem is a parody of Scott’s Marmion. (ancestry.co.uk 3 Dec. 2018, 10 Aug. 2025; Notes and Queries [1858] 422; Eton College Registers) SR
Other Names:
- R. O. Fenwick