Modern English biography

(1887), _Memoir in i pp. xi–clxx_, _portrait_; _W. Hole’s Quasi Cursores_ (1884) 105–11, _portrait_; _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxii_ 365–77 (1885); _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxix_ 1–3 (1886). JENKINS, DAVID JAMES (3 son of John Jenkins of Haverfordwest). _b._ 1824; ed. Teignmouth gram. sch.; served in mercantile marine; commanded a troopship in the Baltic 1854–5; merchant and shipowner of firm of Jenkins & Co. 17 Lime st. London; M.P. Penryn and Falmouth 1874–86; contested Harwich 17 Nov. 1868. _d._ Torquay 26 Feb. 1891. JENKINS, FRANCIS (2 son of rev. Francis Jenkins 1756–1839, V. of St. Clement, Cornwall). _b._ St. Clement 4 Aug. 1793; entered Bengal army 1809; comr. at Assam 28 Jany. 1834 to 1861; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861; wrote many papers in scientific journals. _d._ Gowhatty, Assam 28 Aug. 1866. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ (1874–82) 273, 1247. JENKINS, GEORGE THOMAS (youngest son of William Kinnaird Jenkins of Abbotts Langley, Herts.) _b._ 1819; barrister M.T. 8 Nov. 1844; counsel to the governors of queen Anne’s bounty 1869–78; principal sec. to sir G. Jessel master of the rolls 1873–8; a clerk of records and writs chancery division 1878–9; a master of supreme court of judicature 1879–89; author of Are our bishops to be stipendiary? A few observations on the ecclesiastical commission 1859. _d._ Franklands, Burgess hill, Sussex 10 March 1890. JENKINS, HENRY (son of rev. Henry Jenkins of Midhurst, Sussex). _b._ Midhurst 1786 or 1787; ed. at Magd. hall, Oxf., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809, B.D. 1827; demy of Magd. coll. 1803–27; master of his college school 22 Jany. 1810 to 25 March 1828; probationary fellow of Magd. coll. 1827–31, vice pres. 1829, dean of divinity 1830; R. of Stanway, Essex 27 March 1830 to death, redeemed the land tax of the rectory at his own expense for benefit of his successors; instituted the Magdalen cricket club, for many years only society of the kind in the Univ. except the old Bullingdon club; presented his large and valuable collection of books to the Colchester museum 1869; author of Colchester Castle built by a colony of Romans 1853, Appendix 1853; translated The history of Eudo Dapifer, with an introduction and notes 1860. _d._ 3 Aug. 1874. _J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen college, Oxford_, _iii_ 262–8 (1863), _vii_ 153–4 (1881). JENKINS, HENRY. _b._ 1832; H. Jenkins having expressed his disbelief in the personality of the devil was refused the Holy Communion by the rev. Flavell Smith Cook vicar of Ch. Ch. Clifton 1875, this led to the case of Jenkins _v._ Cook which was ultimately settled by the judicial committee of the privy council 16 Feb. 1876 in favor of plaintiff’s right to demand the communion in his own parish church, Cook then resigned his living; author of Scraps in prose and verse 1864; Prayers for a week 1865; Selections from the Old and New Testament 1865; Selections from the works of Jeremy Taylor 1876. _d._ 3 Vyvyan terrace, Clifton park, Clifton 16 May 1881. _J. Latimer’s Annals of Bristol_ (1887) 482–3; _The Times 26 May 1881 p._ 12; _Law Reports: 4 Admiralty and Ecclesiastical_ (1875) 463–99 _and 1 Probate Division_ (1876) 80–107. JENKINS, HENRY MICHAEL (eld. child of John Jenkin of Ely Mills, Llandaff, miller). _b._ Fairwater cottage, Ely Mills 30 June 1840; ed. at Mr. Browning’s sch. near Bath 1850–4; assistant in library and museum of Geol. Soc. Somerset house, London, assistant sec., librarian and curator 1862 to 31 Dec. 1868; sec. of Royal Agricultural Soc. and editor of its Journal 1 Jany. 1869 to death, wrote 26 papers in the Journal 1869–86; assist. comr. on agricultural interests 1881, wrote reports on agriculture of North of France, Belgium, Holland and Denmark 1882; assistant comr. on technical education 1882, wrote report on Agricultural education in North of Europe 1882. _d._ The Limes, New Barnet 24 Dec. 1886. _Journal of Royal Agricultural Soc. April 1887 pp._ 168–213; _The Field_, _lxix_ 27, 293, 329, 506 (1887). JENKINS, REV. JOHN DAVID (1 son of Wm. David Jenkin of Merthyr Tydvil _d._ 1834). _b._ Merthyr Tydvil 30 Jany. 1828; ed. Jesus coll. Oxf., B.A. 1850, M.A. 1852, B.D. 1859, D.D. 1871; fellow of Jesus 1849 to death; minister at Pieter-Maritzburg 1853, and canon of cathedral ch. there 1856–60; chaplain to the forces in Natal 1853–9; dean of Jesus coll. 1865, junior bursar 1866; V. of Aberdare 1870 to death; chairman South Wales choral union; president of the Amalgamated Soc. of railway servants 1873; author of The age of the martyrs, or the first three centuries of the work of the church 1869, new ed. 1884; Passages in church history selected from the MSS. of J. D. J.: with a brief memoir of the author 2 vols. 1879. _d._ Aberdare 9 Nov. 1876. JENKINS, JOSEPH JOHN (son of an engraver). _b._ London 1811; engraved many portraits and plates; drew illustrations for the annuals; associate of New Water-colour Soc. 1842, member 1843–7, exhibited 57 drawings at their exhibitions; associate of Old Water-colour Soc. of painters in 1847, member 10 June 1850 to 1884, sec. 1854–64, exhibited 271 drawings at their exhibitions, collected materials for history of the Society from 1852, completed and published by J. L. Roget 1891; instituted press private views of exhibitions of pictures 1863; F.S.A. 3 June