 Complete the following phrase:  Fenton was born in London, England, where he was baptised at St.Marys church in Islington on 6 August 1824. He was educated at the Collegiate boarding school in Sheffield, in Yorkshire, and was articled to his uncle James Crossland Fenton who was a solicitor in Huddersfield. He went to Auckland, New Zealand, in 1850, and cultivated land on the Waikato River. In 1851 he was appointed by Sir George Grey then Governor to a position in the Deeds Office at Auckland, and subsequently became Resident Magistrate and Collector of Customs at Kaipara. In March 1856 he was made Native Secretary by Governor Browne; but his policy clashing with that of afterwards Sir Donald McLean, Chief Native Land Commissioner, he was compelled to resign, and was appointed Resident Magistrate at Whaingaroa now Raglan. On 9 May 1857, as the result of a paper of suggestions which he had addressed to the Governor, he was summoned to act as magistrate at Waikato at a critical time in the difficulties preceding the 