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Fenning is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Elizabeth Fenning (1792–1815), domestic servant whose controversial conviction for attempted murder became a cause célèbre * John Fenning (1885–1955), British doctor and rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics *Paddy Fenning Patrick Fenning (25 June 1950 – 15 May 2020) was an Irish Gaelic footballer. At club level he had success with Tullamore and was a two-time All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winner with the Offaly county team. Playing career Fenning ...

Elizabeth Fenning
Elizabeth Fenning, also known as Eliza Fenning, (1792–1815) was a domestic servant whose controversial conviction for attempted murder and execution became a ''cause célèbre'', or issue of widespread controversy and debate. Background Fenning, the daughter of poor parents, was from the age of fourteen employed in various situations as a domestic servant. Toward the end of January 1815 she entered the service of Orlibar Turner of 68 Chancery Lane, London, a tradesman, in the capacity of cook. On 21 March following, Turner, his son Robert Gregson Turner, and his daughter-in-law Charlotte, while at dinner, all ate of some yeast dumplings prepared by Fenning and immediately became very sick, though the ill effect was not lasting. It was discovered that arsenic had been mixed with the materials of the dumplings, and suspicion fell on Fenning. Criminal proceedings Fenning was summoned to Hatton Garden police-court, and was committed for trial. The case came on at the Old Bailey on 11 ...
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Cause Célèbre
A cause célèbre (,''Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged'', 12th Edition, 2014. S.v. "cause célèbre". Retrieved November 30, 2018 from https://www.thefreedictionary.com/cause+c%c3%a9l%c3%a8bre ,''Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary''. S.v. "cause célèbre." Retrieved November 30, 2018 from https://www.thefreedictionary.com/cause+c%c3%a9l%c3%a8bre ; pl. causes célèbres, pronounced like singular) is an issue or incident arousing widespread controversy, outside campaigning, and heated public debate. The term continues in the media in all senses. It is sometimes used positively for celebrated legal cases for their precedent value (each ''locus classicus'' or "case-in-point") and more often negatively for infamous ones, whether for scale, outrage, scandal, or conspiracy theories. The term is a French phrase in common usage in English. Since it has been fully adopted into English and is included unitalicized in English dictionaries,''American ...
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John Fenning
John Reginald Keith Fenning (23 June 1885 – 3 January 1955) was a British medical doctor and rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. Fenning was born in Fulham, London. He entered London Hospital Medical College in January 1904 but it took him thirteen years to complete his course. He became a rower for Leander Club. He partnered Gordon Thomson at bow in the coxless pairs to win the gold medal for Great Britain rowing at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Later in the same afternoon he and Thomson were in the Leander coxless four with Philip Filleul and Harold Barker which won a silver medal, losing to the Magdalen College, Oxford crew.Sports Reference Olympic Sports – John Fenning
After he qualified in 1927, Fenning initially practiced in the Home Counties but in 1937, he mo ...
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