FENTON, SIR GEOFFREY (c. 1539-1608), English writer and politician, was the son of Henry Fenton, of Notting hamshire. He was brother of Edward Fenton the navigator. He is said to have visited Spain and Italy in his youth ; possibly he went to Paris in Sir Thomas Hoby's train in 1566, for he was living there in 1567, when he wrote Certaine tragicall discourses written oute of Frenche and Latin, a free translation of Francois de Belleforest's French rendering of Matteo Bandello's Novelle. Fenton's other works are as follows: Mono phylo (1572), Golden Epistles gathered out of Guevarae's workes as other authors . . . (1575), Historie of Guicciardini, translated out of French by G. F. (1579), and a number of Protestant tracts. Through Lord Burgh ley he obtained, in 158o, the post of secretary to the new lord deputy of Ireland, Lord Grey de Wilton. He held the secretary ship until the end of his life by the favour of Elizabeth, whom he kept informed of the activities of her other servants in Ireland. Under James I. he had to share the post with Sir Richard Coke. Fenton died in Dublin on Oct. 19, i6o8, and was buried in St. Patrick's cathedral. He had two children, a son, Sir William Fenton, and a daughter, Catherine, who in 1603 married Richard Boyle, Ist earl of Cork.