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Fenton (name)

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Fenton is both a surname and a male given-name, literally-meaning "fen/marsh town", originating as the name of several English places, popular in the United States and New Zealand. It is also a name of Irish-Gaelic origin; Ó Fionnachta (see Finnerty) or Ó Fiachna 'descendant of Fiachna', an old personal name Anglicized as Feighney and sometimes mistranslated as 'Hunt' (see Fee). Notable people with the name include:

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  • Elijah Fenton (1683–1730), an English poet, biographer and translator.
  • Geoffrey Fenton (c. 1539 – 1608), an English writer
  • James Fenton (born 1949), an English poet, journalist and literary critic. He is a former Oxford Professor of Poetry
  • James Fenton (1931–2021), Ulster Scots writer and poet.

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