FENWICK, Nicholas (c.1693-1752), of Pilgrim St., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Lemington, Northumb.

The grandson of Nicholas Fenwick, governor of the Merchant Adventurers 1697-1704, Fenwick was admitted to that Company in 1712. Representing Newcastle as a Tory for twenty years, he voted against the Administration in every recorded division. In 1733 he was given a vote of thanks by the Merchant Adventurers for his zeal in opposing the excise bill.J. Richmond to Walter Blackett, 2 June 1733, Add. 27420, f. 62. Through his second wife he had acquired Lemington, in Alnwick, where he practised forestry, for which he received a gold medal from the Society of Arts.Arch. Aeliana (ser. 4), xxiii. 150. Retiring in 1747, he died in 1752 (buried 27 Feb.).