Modern English biography

Observer_, _Dec. 1849 pp._ 809–56, _Oct. 1850 pp._ 698–713. JENNINGS, GEORGE (eld. son of Joseph Jennings _d._ 1824). _b._ in a village on the borders of the New Forest 10 Nov. 1810; in employment of Burton, plumbers, Newcastle st. London 1831, in business Parliament st. 1834, in Charlotte st. Blackfriars road 1838; introduced indiarubber tube taps 1847; conducted the sanitary works in Great exhibition of 1851, in Crystal palace, Sydenham 1852–4, in Great exhibition 1862, and in Dublin exhibition 1865; invented improved shutter fastener; put up sanitary fittings in hospitals at Varna and Scutari 1854; purchased clay beds at Parkstone, Dorset where he erected pottery works and made stoneware and terra-cotta goods; removed to Holland st. Blackfriars 1857, afterwards to Palace wharf, Stangate, his works burnt down 22 March 1865; constructed water works for Wilton; used india rubber for valves, endless elastic bands and for hermetically sealing capsules; conducted sanitary works in Paris exhibition 1867, drainage works, etc. in Vienna exhibition 1873, and Centennial exhibition, Philadelphia 1876; heated and ventilated buildings on a new principle; thrown out of a gig 13 April and _d._ from his injuries Ferndale, Nightingale lane, Clapham 17 April 1882. _The Builder_, _xlii_ 497, 530 (1882). JENNINGS, HARGRAVE. _b._ about 1817; sec. to James Henry Mapleson manager of the royal Italian opera, many years; said to be the original of Ezra Jennings in Wilkie Collins’s novel The Moonstone 1868; author of My marine memorandum book 3 vols. 1845; The ship of glass or the mysterious island 3 vols. 1846; St. George, a romance 1853; Curious things of the outside world 2 vols. 1861; The Rosicrucians, their rites and mysteries 1870, 3 ed. 2 vols. 1887; One of the Thirty 1873, a story of Judas and the 30 pieces of silver; The Indian religions 1858, 2 ed. 1890; Phallicism, celestial and terrestrial 2 vols. 1884. _d._ at residence of his brother Edward Lawrence Jennings, Ambassador’s Court, St. James’s palace, London 11 March 1890. _Times 14 March 1890 p._ 9. JENNINGS, JOHN. _b._ 14 Sep. 1789; hon. secretary of the Star club, London 1831–39; R. of St. John the Evangelist, Westminster 1832 to death; canon residentiary of Westminster 9 Jany. 1837 to death; archdeacon of Westminster, Jany. 1869 to death, sub-dean 1881 to death; the sole surviving priest who officiated at coronation of Victoria 1838. _d._ Dean’s yard, Westminster 26 March 1883. _bur._ Lyne church near Chertsey 3 April. _I.L.N. xxvi_ 268 (1855) _portrait_, _lxxxii_ 332 (1883), _portrait_. JENNISON, JOHN. _b._ 1789; a handloom weaver, Stockport; established Jennison’s Gardens, Stockport 1829; originated the Belle Vue gardens, Manchester 1836, which became the favourite resort of pleasure seekers of Lancashire and surrounding counties; his first great picture The siege of Algiers produced