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

Life[edit]

He was the son of John Harvey Jenyns of Eye, Suffolk, and was born at Roydon, Norfolk.[1] He entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1781. He graduated Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1785, and was ordained that year, and received his Master of Arts (Cambridge) (MA Cantab) in 1788. He became Dean and rhetorical praelector of his college in 1787, though not a fellow, this being the first recorded instance.[2][3]

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He was vicarofSwaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire 1787–1848 and prebendaryofEly Cathedral, 1802–1848. He inherited Bottisham HallinBottisham and a considerable fortune from his first cousin twice removed[1] Soame Jenyns in 1787. He became Chairman of the Bedford Level Corporation, and also of the Board of Agriculture.[4] At Bottisham Hall he built a new house, constructed for him by 1797; and also expanded the Jenyns estate by purchases.[5][6]

Family[edit]

In 1788 he married Mary Heberden (1763–1832), the daughter of the physician William Heberden (1710–1801).[4] They had the following children:

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Burke's Landed Gentry, 17th edition, 1952, ed. L. G. Pine, pp. 1381-2, 'Jenyns of Bottisham Hall' pedigree
  • ^ "Jenyns, George Leonard (JNNS781GL)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  • ^ 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.
  • ^ a b 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.
  • ^ '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.
  • ^ "parksandgardens.ac.uk, Bottisham Hall, Bottisham, England". Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 22 March 2012.

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