Jenyns, Leonard (1823-1827)

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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, Oct. 20, 1817. [Youngest] s. of the Rev. George Leonard (above), of Bottisham Hall, Cambs. [and Mary, dau. of the late W. Heberden, M.D.]. [B. May 25, 1800, in London.] School, Eton. ' Matric. Michs. 1818; B.A. 1822; M.A. 1825. Ord. deacon (Lincoln, Litt. dim. from Ely) May 23, 1823; priest (Bristol, Litt. dim. from Ely) June 6, 1824; C. of Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambs., 1823-8; V. there, 1828-49; in May, 1838 ‘bitterly complaining of his solitude,’ as his friend, Charles Darwin, records. C. of Woolley Chapelry, near Bath, 1852-60. Member of the Linnean Society, 1822; of the Zoological, Entomological, Ray, and other societies. Married (1) Apr. 23, 1844, at Ampney Crucis, Gloucs., Jane, eldest dau. of the Rev. Edward A. Daubeny, R. of Ampney Crucis; (2) June 24, 1862, at Stapleford, Cambs., Sarah, eldest dau. of the Rev. Robert Hawthorn, V. of Stapleford. Took the name of Blomefield, upon inheriting considerable property, 1871. Author, A Manual of British Vertebrate Animals; Observations in Natural History; Chapters in My Life; Memoir of Professor Henslow. Resided at Swainswick, Somerset, and latterly at Bath. Founder and first President of the Bath Natural History Club and presented the ‘Jenyns’ library to the city of Bath. Died Sept. 1, 1893, at Bath. (Crockford; D.N.B., under Blomefield; Clergy List; G. Mag., 1862, II. 222b; Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, I. 289; The Guardian, Sept. 6, 1893; C. R. Hudleston.)

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