Orlando Fenwick

{{Short description|Australian mayor (1822–1897)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder |

| honorific-prefix =

| name= Orlando Fenwick

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| image= File:Photograph of Orlando Fenwick, 27th Mayor of Melbourne.png

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| nationality=

| order=27th Mayor of Melbourne

| term_start=1871

| term_end=1872

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| predecessor=Thomas McPherson

| successor=Thomas O'Grady

| birth_date= 1822

| birth_place= Gravesend, Kent

| death_date= 9 December 1897

| death_place=Melbourne, Victoria

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| party=

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Orland Fenwick (1822 – 9 December 1897{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9782499 |title=DEATH OF COUNCILLOR FENWICK. |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=10 December 1897 |accessdate=6 February 2014 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}) was Mayor of Melbourne from 1871–1872, after having joined the council in 1865.[http://www.cchg.asn.au/street.html#fenwick Street names of Carlton and North Carlton] Born in Gravesend, Kent in England, Fenwick immigrated to Victoria in November 1852, where he ran a retail and wholesale drapery business.[https://web.archive.org/web/20130409210938/http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/themes/1955/fenwick-brothers-drapers-melbourne-victoria Browsing by theme 'Fenwick Brothers, Drapers, Melbourne, Victoria' – Museum Victoria] Following his term as mayor, he remained on the city council until his death.

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Category:Mayors and lord mayors of Melbourne

Category:1822 births

Category:1897 deaths

Category:People from Gravesend, Kent

Category:English emigrants to colonial Australia

Category:Victoria (state) local councillors

Category:19th-century mayors of places in Australia

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