Richard Fenton

Biography

Works

• Poems, London 1773; 2 vols. 1790.
• A Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire, London 1811, with thirty plates and a map. This was the work censured by Thomas Burgess, in his Bishops and benefactors of St. David's vindicated from the misrepresentations of a recent publication, 1812. Fenton's reply to the bishop remained in manuscript. Prefixed is the author's portrait, engraved by Thomas Woolnoth, from a painting by Samuel Woodforde; the original is at Stourhead. The work made use of manuscripts of George Owen Harry.
• A Tour in quest of Genealogy through several parts of Wales, Somersetshire, and Wiltshire in a series of letters … interspersed with a description of Stourhead and Stonehenge … and curious fragments from a manuscript collection, ascribed to Shakespeare. By a Barrister, London 1811.
• Memoirs of an old Wig, London, 1815,, a humorous work.
• A translation of the Deipnosophistæ of Athenæus; manuscript deposited in the library of Richard Colt Hoare at Stourhead.
• "Cromlech at Llanwnda, Pembrokeshire" in Archaeologia Cambrensis, No XII - October 1848 at p. 283
• Richard Fenton Tours in Wales, Archaeologia Cambrensis, Supplementary Volume. 1917.

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