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| Jenyns, George Leonard. Adm. pens. (age 17) at CAIUS, Apr. 28, 1781. S. of John Harvey, of Eye, Suffolk . B. [June 19, 1763], at Roydon, Norfolk . Schools, Botesdale [ Suffolk ] and Bury St Edmunds [ Suffolk ]. Matric. Lent, 1782; B.A. 1785; Scholar, 1788; M.A. 1788. Dean and Rhetoric Praelector, 1787. Ord. deacon (Ely) Sept. 25, 1785; priest, Oct. 28, 1787. V. of Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire , 1787-1848. Preb. of Ely [ Cambridgeshire ], 1802-48. Married, 1788, Mary, dau. of William Heberden, M.D. Of Bottisham Hall [ Cambridgeshire ] and Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire . "He might never have attained to any local standing of importance, but for the circumstances of his coming into the Bottisham Hall property in Cambridgeshire quite in early life, on the decease of Soame Jenyns, second cousin to my father, and well known in the Literature of this Country, who died in 1787, leaving no issue. This of course established my father as one of the Gentlemen of the County. He was a Canon of Ely [ Cambridgeshire ], or Prebendary as it was then called, a Magistrate, also, and he had a great knowledge of Farming, being Chairman of the Board of Agriculture in London . He was also Chairman of the Bedford Level Corporation, 1830" (Leonard Jenyns, Chapters in My Life, 10). Died Feb. 1848. Buried at Bottisham [ Cambridgeshire ]. Father of the above, the next, and Charles (1815). ( Venn, II. 105; Burke, L.G.; Clergy List; Bury Gr. Sch. Reg .; Foster, Index Eccles .) | George Leonard JENYNS Approx. lifespan: 1763–1848 age=17 pens. Gonville & Caius College adm1781:04:28 s. of John Harvey JENYNS of Eye, Suffolk b. Roydon, Norfolk 1763:06:19 Sch: Botesdale School Botesdale, [ Suffolk ] and Sch: Bury St Edmunds Bury, [ Suffolk ] Matric 1782:01LT: BA 1785 Scholar 1788 MA 1788 Dean and Rhetoric Praelector 1787 Ord. deacon Ely 1785:09:25 Ord. priest 1787:10:28 V.: Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire 1787-1848 Prebendary: Ely, [ Cambridgeshire ] 1802-48 m. 1788 Mary HEBERDEN dau. of William HEBERDEN MD Of Bottisham Hall, Bottisham, [ Cambridgeshire ] and Anglesey Abbey Anglesey, Cambridgeshire "He might never have attained to any local standing of importance, but for the circumstances of his coming into the Bottisham Hall property Cambridgeshire quite in early life, on the decease of Soame JENYNS, second cousin to my father, and well known in the Literature of this Country, who died in1787, leaving no issue. This of course established my father as one of the Gentlemen of the County. He was a Canon of: Ely, [ Cambridgeshire ], or Prebendary as it was then called, a Magistrate: also, and he had a great knowledge of Farming, being Chairman of: Board of Agriculture in London He was also Chairman of: Bedford Level Corporation 1830 " (Leonard Jenyns, Chapters in My Life, 10) d. bur. Bottisham, [ Cambridgeshire ] 1848:02 father of the above JENYNS the next, and Charles (1815) ( Venn, II. 105; Burke, L.G.; Clergy List; Bury Gr. School Reg .; Foster, Index Eccles .) |