Item VI/ii/14 - Summary and Free Reflections in which the Great Outline only and Principal Features of the following Subjects are impartially traced and candidly examined . .

JENNINGS, HENRY CONSTANTINE, only son of Henry Jennings, Shiplake, Oxfordshire, and Susannah, dau. of Charles Kent, Westhall; bapt. Shiplake, Oxfordshire 15 Aug 1731 (IGI); adm. (aged 8) Jun 1740; left 1749; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 1 May 1749, res. 16 Jan 1752; living in Italy c. 1753-61; collected classical antiquities; known as “Dog Jennings” from his purchase at Rome of a famous marble dog, sold at Christies 4 Apr 1778 for 1600 guineas; resided at Shiplake after his return to England; lost heavily on the turf, necessitating the sale of his collection; a prisoner in the Fleet 1777-8; subsequently settled in Essex and formed a second collection; falling again into debt, he became a prisoner at Chemsford Gaol, and his new collection had to be sold; living in Lindsey Row, Chelsea, from 1792, where he formed a third collection, comprising shells, precious stones, portraits and books; arrested for debt in 1816, but his latest collection was not sold until after his death; author, A Free Inquiry into the enormous increase of Attornies, 1785, and other publications; lic. to m. 1st, 28 Jul 1766 Juliana Atkinson; m. 2nd, 1777 Elizabeth Katherine, dau. of Roger Nowell, Bobins Place, Kent; d. in Belvidere Place, St. George’s Fields, within the rules of the King’s Bench, 17 Feb 1819. DNB.