Thomas Fenby

Thomas Davis Fenby (1875 - 4 August 1956) was a British Liberal politician and blacksmith.
Early life
Fenby was born in Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, the son of a master of a local blacksmith’s forge. He was educated at Bridlington School. He learned his father’s trade and later headed the family business, often working at the forge himself until only a few years before his death. In 1900 he married Elizabeth Ann Adamson; they had two daughters.
Yorkshire public life
Fenby was important in local public life. Appointed a magistrate in 1910, he was for many years the Chairman of the Pickering magistrates and he succeeded the Earl of Halifax as chairman of quarter sessions. He was also Chairman of the East Riding Summary Jurisdiction Appeals Committee and vice-Chairman of the Rating Appeals Committee, the rates being a question he later addressed in Parliament. He was granted an extension to serve as a magistrate by the Lord...