John W. Fenton

(1795 c.-1825)

LBT ID: JoFento1825	B/BAP: 1795 DIED: 1825-06-11
SOURCES: William Parry, Last Days of Lord Byron (1825); Edward John Trelawny, Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (1858); St. Clair, That Greece Might Still be Free (1972) 181
A Scot who after service in Spain joined Byron's brigade at Missolonghi; a spy for the Greek government, he was killed when attempting to assassinate Edward John Trelawny.
REFERENCES TO John W. Fenton: William Henry Humphreys to Gawen William Rowan Hamilton, 17 June 1825 in Journal of a Visit to Greece (London: Henry Colburn, 1826) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Guise Whitcombe to Edward John Trelawny, 11 August 1825 in Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858) Found 1: ¶ 2 W. H. Humphreys, Journal of a Visit to Greece (London: Henry Colburn, 1826) Chapter V Found 1: ¶ 12 Chapter VIII Found 1: ¶ 2 Chapter IX Humphreys, W. H. (William Henry), “Adventures of an English Officer in Greece. No. I.” in New Monthly Magazine NS 17 (August 1826) 172-181 Found 12: ¶ 3 ¶ 5 ¶ 6 ¶ 7 ¶ 9 ¶ 10 ¶ 12 ¶ 13 ¶ 14 ¶ n2 ¶ 1 ¶ 3 Humphreys, W. H. (William Henry), “Adventures of an English Officer in Greece. No. II.” in New Monthly Magazine NS 17 (September 1826) 201-08 Found 8: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 6 ¶ 7 ¶ 8 ¶ 9 Julius Millingen, Memoirs of the Affairs of Greece (London: John Rodwell, 1831) Chapter XVI Found 1: ¶ 11 Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881, Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858) Chapter XXII. Found 3: ¶ 6 ¶ 29 ¶ 32 Chapter XXIII. Found 1: ¶ 19 Chapter XXIV. Found 4: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ 6 Chapter XXV. Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 5