George Leonard Jenyns

George Leonard Jenyns (19 June 1763 – 1848) was an English clergyman, a landowner involved both in the Bedford Level Corporation, and in government through the Board of Agriculture.

Life

He was the son of John Harvey Jenyns of Eye, Suffolk, and was born at Roydon, Norfolk. He entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1781. He graduated B.A. in 1785, and was ordained that year, and M.A. in 1788. He became Dean and rhetorical praelector of his college in 1787, though not a fellow, this being the first recorded instance.[1][2]

Hatchment, Bottisham.

He was vicar of Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire 1787–1848 and prebendary of Ely, 1802–1848. He inherited Bottisham Hall in Bottisham and a considerable fortune from his second cousin Soame Jenyns in 1787. He became Chairman of the Bedford Level Corporation, and also of the Board of Agriculture.[3] At Bottisham Hall he built a new house, constructed for him by 1797; and also expanded the Jenyns estate by purchases.[4][5]

Family

In 1788 he married Mary Heberden (1763–1832), the daughter of the physician William Heberden (1710–1801).[3] They had the following children:

Notes

  1. "Jenyns, George Leonard (JNNS781GL)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. John Venn, Biographical History of Gonville and Caius college, 1349-1897; containing a list of all known members of the college from the foundation to the present time, with biographical notes vol. 2 (1897), p. 105; archive.org.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Stuart Max Walters; Max Walters; Elizabeth Anne Stow (13 September 2001). Darwin's Mentor: John Stevens Henslow, 1796-1861. Cambridge University Press. pp. 38–. ISBN 978-0-521-59146-1. Retrieved 22 March 2012.
  4. 'Bottisham: Manors and other estates', A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 10: Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (north-eastern Cambridgeshire) (2002), pp. 196-205. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18848 Date accessed: 22 March 2012.
  5. parksandgardens.ac.uk, Bottisham Hall, Bottisham, England.