Sir John Fenwick, 3rd Baronet was an English Army officer and politician. He succeeded to the Fenwick baronetcy after the death of his father, Sir William Fenwick, in 1677 and became a court-supportin
Fenwick's arrest in 1696 (as later imagined in 1865)
A depiction of Lady Mary Fenwick interceding for her husband following his arrest
The 1696 Jacobite assassination plot was an unsuccessful attempt in February 1696 to kill William III, and restore the exiled James II of England. The plot was discovered at an early stage of planning
Sir John Fenwick, 3rd Baronet
…court-supporting Tory member of parliament. After the Glorious Revolution in 1688, he became a supporter of the Jacobite cause. Fenwick was involved in the Fenwick plot and implicated in an associated conspiracy to assassinate William III of England, and he was executed by beheading in 1697 as a result. He was the last…
The Triumphs of Providence, 1696 broadsheet celebrating William III's escape from assassination.