After graduating MB BS from the University of Melbourne in 1926, Frederick George Fenton became a resident medical officer at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne. Deciding to specialise in ophthalmology he became a resident medical officer and later, registrar at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, London. During the four years that he spent at the Westminster Ophthalmic (1934-1938) he also worked at Moorfields Eye Hospital and at Guy's. Returning to Melbourne he served with the RAAF as an ophthalmologist in their recruitment centre during the second world war and retired with the rank of Flight Lieutenant in the Reserve. In 1950 he became senior ophthalmic surgeon at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital and on his retirement was appointed consulting surgeon emeritus. While at the hospital he was chairman of the honorary medical staff from 1955 to 1963. He took a special interest in orthoptics - he was chairman of the Orthoptic Board of Australia, 1948-1964, and served as a member of the Board of the Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia, 1960-1968. He continued to maintain a lively interest in all the latest advances in ophthalmology and had no hesitation in suggesting relatively new procedures and treatments if he thought that they were in the patient's best interests. As a young man he was an almost obsessive skier. He was one of the first to climb the south-east face of Mount Kosciusko and did it in winter, with primitive equipment. In Switzerland in 1928, he entered a downhill race for novices. While the other competitors carefully executed measures traversing the approaches, he set forth hurriedly, pointing his skis straight down the slope and to everyone's astonishment arrived, without mishap, an easy winner. He died on 3 June, 1982 aged 78. His wife Doris predeceased him and he was survived by their three sons.