From: "Montreal History and Gazeteer to the year 1892"
By Rev. J. Douglas Borthwick, John Lovell & Son, Montreal 1892
WAS born in Quebec, October 8th, 1825. He commenced his career
by studying Medicine and Surgery in the Marine Hospital of his native city
in 1841. In November, 1842, he entered the Medical Faculty of McGill
University, Montreal. He
passed his final examination with great credit in 1846, but having
not then attained his majority could not receive his Diploma till January,
1847, when he had the high honor of having a special Convocation of the
College called to confer on him his
degrees of Doctor of Medicine and Master in Surgery. Since then
Dr. Fenwick's name has been one of the most prominent in our city. In 1849,
in conjunction with the late Dr. Howard and
others, he established the Montreal Dispensary. In 1867, he
was appointed to the chair of Clinical Surgery of McGill, holding it
to 1876, when in that year he became Professor of Surgery. He is
now Emeritus Professor of the College. He has devoted a good deal of his
spare time to medical writings, and is as well known perhaps as any medical
man (by these writings) on this Continent. He established with Dr.
F. W. Campbell
the " Canada Medical Journal " in 1864,
and edited it to 1879 when he resigned. For many years he represented
the physicians of Montreal as Governor of the College
of Physicians and Surgeons of Lower Canada. He is a consistent and
earnest Christian and member of St. John the Evangelist
Church. He married, in 1852, Eliza
"Charlotte" de Hertel, daughter
of Colonel Daniel de Hertel and
Lydia Brown*, of St.Andrews, and has
had seven children.
*ed. note : Lydia
Brown was the daughter of James
Brown of the Montreal Gazette.