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Adm. sizar (age 20) at PEMBROKE, June 22, 1778. Youngest s. of the Rev. Jenkin (Jesus College, Oxford, 1729-30), of Swansea, B. there. Bapt. June 14, 1758. [School, Christ's Hospital (exhibitioner).] ' Matric. Michs. 1778; Scholar. 'Unhappily afflicted with lunacy; brought upon him by a too intense application to his studies', 1783. R. of Claxby Pluckacre, Lincs. (a sinecure), 1791-1822. V. of Diseworth, Leics., 1796-1822. Buried May 11, 1822, at Diseworth. (Christ's Hospital Exhibitioners; P. B. G. Binnall.)