JEMMETT, William Thomas (eld. son of Edward Jemmett of Lincoln’s inn, barrister). b. 1799; ed. at Winchester; barrister M.T. 10 Nov. 1820; recorder of Kingston on Thames 1831 to death; comr. of bankrupts for Manchester district 21 Oct. 1842 to 31 Dec. 1869 when granted sum of £1800 on abolition of office; author of The acts relating to the administration of law in the courts of equity 1830, 2 ed. 1836. d. Langhorn gardens, Folkestone 17 May 1875.
JENCKEN, Ferdinand Edward. b. blind 1823; operated on for cataract and obtained use of one eye 1841; ed. at King’s coll. Lond.; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1853; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1853; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1869; L.K.Q.C.P. Irel. and L.M. 1870; practised at Londonderry; wrote many papers; author of The cholera, its origin and treatment 1867; Vaccination impartially reviewed 1868; Essay on Beethoven’s Sonatas with Introductory sketch of music 1871. d. of pyæmia, 22 Anglesey place, Kingston, Ireland 12 Jany. 1881. Medical Times, i 112, 335 (1881).
JENCKEN, Henry Diedrich (son of Johann Ferdinand Jencken, who came to England as physician to Queen Adelaide). b. London 1828; barrister L.I. 30 April 1861; practised at Cape Town; frequently retained in commercial cases; sec. to Association for reform and codification of the law of nations, July or Aug. 1874 to death; the subject of a correspondence between Foreign office and Spanish government in regard to outrages on him by people of Lorca in Spain 20 July 1869, cause of outrages was a superstition that he was a “tio del sain” or fat-monger who butchered children to use the fat of their entrails to repair telegraph wires; translated and wrote prefaces to Treatises on Light, Colour, Electricity and Magnetism by his father 1869; author of The laws on negotiable securities 1880; A compendium of the laws of bills of exchange and other negotiable instruments 1880; author with Frederick Tomkins of A compendium of modern Roman law 1870. d. 16 St. James’s st. Notting Hill, London 26 Nov. 1881.
JENINGS, Elizabeth Janet (2 dau. of rev. William Plues of Ripon, Yorks.) b. 1818; (m. Edmund John Jenings of Fir Trees, Hawkhurst, Kent); author of My Good-for-Nothing brother: a novel. By Wyckliffe Lane [1862], new ed. 1863, which was a success; Thyra Gascoigne 3 vols. 1863, 3 ed. 1863. Fourth ed. was under title of John Douglas’s Vow 1867. d. Hawkhurst 23 Aug. 1863.
JENKIN, Henrietta Camilla (only dau. of Robert Jackson, custos rotulorum of Kingston, Jamaica). b. Jamaica 8 Feb. 1807. (m. 1832 Charles Jenkin who entered R.N. 1814, commander 9 Nov. 1846, d. 5 Feb. 1885); lived in Paris 1847–8, Genoa 1848–51 and Edinburgh 1868 to death; author of Violet Bank and its inmates 3 vols. 1856; Cousin Stella 3 vols. 1859, another ed. 1862; Who breaks pays 2 vols. 1861; Skirmishing 1862; Once and again 1865; A Psyche of to-day 1868; Madame de Beaufrés 1869, the above are all anonymous; Two French marriages 3 vols. 1868; Within an ace 1869; Jupiter’s daughters 1874, and of Une vieille fille, in the Revue des deux mondes; was paralysed for last ten years of her life. d. Edinburgh 8 Feb. 1885. R. L. Stevenson’s Memoir of F. Jenkin, i pp. xxiii etc., cliii etc., portrait; O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict. (1849) 580; Times 17 Feb. 1885 p. 10.
JENKIN, Henry Charles Fleeming (son of preceding). b. Stowting court near Dungeness 25 March 1833; ed. at Jedburgh gram. sch. and Edinburgh academy; studied at Genoa univ. 1849, M.A.; apprenticed to sir W. Fairbairn, mechanical engineer, Manchester 1851; engineer in London, in partnership with H. C. Forde 1861–8, afterwards an electrician; fitted out submarine telegraph cables 1858–73; professor of engineering in Univ. coll. London 1865–8, in Univ. of Edin. 1868 to death; F.R.S. 1 June 1865; M.I.C.E. 18 Feb. 1868; invented telpherage or the automatic transport of heavy goods by electricity 1882, a telpher line was opened at Glynde near Lewes 17 Nov. 1885; patented 35 inventions; author of Bridges. A treatise on their construction and history 1876; Electricity and magnetism 3 ed. 1870; Healthy houses 1878; Scenes from the Agamemnon. Arranged by F. Jenkin 1880. d. 3 Great Stuart st. Edinburgh 12 June 1885. H. C. F. Jenkin’s Papers literary and scientific 2 vols. (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).