John Fenton-Cawthorne was a British Conservative politician, who served as MP for Lincoln between 1783 and 1796 and as MP for Lancaster for four terms in the early 19th century.[1]
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Fenton-Cawthorne was born in 1753 to James Fenton of Lancaster, a barrister and his wife Elizabeth.
He was first elected as an MP in January 1783 and was an opponent of the abolition of the slave trade.[2]
In 1796 Fenton-Cawthorne was found guilty by a court martial of divers charges and expelled from Parliament. It was ruled that he had "acted fraudulently and in a scandalous and infamous manner".[3]
Fenton-Cawthorne returned to Parliament in 1806 as MP for Lancaster. His older brother also entered Parliament at the same time as MP for Fife.
He died in 1851.