| 词条 | George Leonard Jenyns |
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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. LifeHe 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 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.[1][2] He was vicar of Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire 1787–1848 and prebendary of Ely Cathedral, 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] FamilyIn 1788 he married Mary Heberden (1763–1832), the daughter of the physician William Heberden (1710–1801).[3] They had the following children:
References1. ^{{acad|JNNS781GL|Jenyns, George Leonard}} {{Heberden family tree}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Jenyns, George Leonard}}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; [https://archive.org/stream/biographicalhist02vennuoft#page/104/mode/2up archive.org]. 3. ^1 {{cite book|author1=Stuart Max Walters|author2=Max Walters|author3=Elizabeth Anne Stow|title=Darwin's Mentor: John Stevens Henslow, 1796-1861|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5mM81p17vvsC&pg=PA38|accessdate=22 March 2012|date=13 September 2001|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-59146-1|pages=38–}} 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. 6 : 1763 births|1848 deaths|18th-century English Anglican priests|19th-century English Anglican priests|People from South Norfolk (district)|People from Bottisham |
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