Fenton

Fenton is the name of the following places:

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• in the United Kingdom:
• Fenton, in the county of Staffordshire, England
• Fenton, in the county of Lincolnshire, England (near Saxilby)
• Fenton, in the county of Lincolnshire, England (near Stubton)
• Fenton, in the county of Nottinghamshire, England
• Fenton, in the county of Northumberland, England
• Fenton, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England
• in the United States of America:
• Fenton, Iowa
• Fenton, Louisiana
• Fenton, Michigan
• Fenton, Missouri
• Fenton, New York
• Fenton Township, Michigan
• Fenton Township, Minnesota

and several persons:

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• Elijah Fenton (1683-1730), poet and translator
• George Fenton (born 1950), British composer
• H.J.H. Fenton, a chemical engineer who, in the 1890s invented Fenton's reagenthttp://toxics.usgs.gov/definitions/fentons_reagent.html, a solution of hydrogen peroxide and an iron catalyst that is used to oxidize contaminants or waste waters. Fenton's Reagent can be used to destroy organic compounds such as trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE). Also see remediation
• Reuben Fenton (1819-1885), twenty-fifth governor of New York
• Roger Fenton (1819-1869), pioneering British photographer