Edward Fenton (died 1603) was an English navigator, son of Henry Fenton and Cicely Beaumont and brother of Sir Geoffrey Fenton. He was also a publisher of diaries and journals.
He was a native of Sturton-le-Steeple, Nottinghamshire. His mother belonged to a prominent Leicestershire family whose seat was at Coleorton Hall. In 1577 he sailed, in command of the Gabriel, with Sir Martin Frobisher's second expedition for the discovery of the Northwest Passage, and in the following year he took part as second in command in Frobisher's third expedition, his ship being the Judith.[1]
He was then employed in Ireland for a time, but in 1582 he was put in charge of an expedition which was to sail round the Cape of Good Hope to the Moluccas and China, his instructions being to obtain any knowledge of the northwest passage that was possible without hindrance to his trade. For this voyage he was in charge of two warships, the Galleon Leicester and the Edward Bonaventure.[2] On this unsuccessful voyage[3] he got no farther than Portuguese Brazil, and although defeating a Spanish fleet just off São Vicente he was unable to trade with the Portuguese residents there. To add to his woes he was engaged in quarrelling with his officers, and especially with his lieutenant, William Hawkins, the nephew of Sir John Hawkins, whom he had in irons when he arrived back in the Thames.[1]Richard Madox, who sailed as chaplain, kept a diary of the voyage for the whole year 1582 which has been published.
In 1588 he had command of the Mary Rose, (not the preserved vessel), one of the ships of the fleet that was formed to oppose the Spanish Armada. He died 15 years afterwards,[1] and was buried in St Nicholas's Church in Deptford.
Personal life
Edward Fenton was married to Thomasina, daughter of Benjamin Gonson the Elder, and was brother-in-law to Sir John Hawkins, who married Katherine Gonson, Thomasina's sister. The mother of the girls, wife of Benjamin, was Ursula, daughter of Anthony Hussey.[4]
Notes
^ abcOne or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Fenton, Edward". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 259.
^Andrews, Kenneth R.; Gray, Jeffrey Alan; Andrews, Kenneth Raymond (29 November 1984). Trade, Plunder and Settlement: Maritime Enterprise and the Genesis of the British Empire, 1480-1630. Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-0-521-27698-6.
^C.S. Knighton, D. M. Loades (Eeds.), The Navy of Edward VI and Mary I (Ashgate Publishing, 2011), Appendix 2: Biographical Notices, 'Benjamin Gonson (I)', pp. 545–46.
References
Elizabeth Story Donno, ed., An Elizabethan in 1582: The Diary of Richard Madox, Fellow of All Souls. Hakluyt Society/Cambridge University Press, 1976
E. R. G. Taylor, The Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton 1582–83. Hakluyt Society/Cambridge University Press, 1959.
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