FENTON, EDWARD (d. 1603), English navigator, son of Henry Fenton and brother of Sir Geoffrey Fenton (q.v.), was born in Nottinghamshire. In 1577 he sailed, in command of the "Gabriel," with Frobisher's second expedition for the discovery of the north-west passage, and in 1578 he was second in command in Frobisher's third expedition, in the "Judith." 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, and to obtain any know ledge of the north-west passage that was possible without hin drance to his trade. The voyage was a failure. He spent his time quarrelling with his officers, and only reached Brazil. In 1588 he had command of the "Mary Rose," one of the ships of the fleet that was formed to oppose the Armada. He died 15 years later. (See Hakluyt's Voyages, Vol. iv.)