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JENNINGS-CLERKE, SIR PHILIP, BART., son of Philip Jennings MP, Dudleston, Shropshire, barrister, Bencher Inner Temple, and his second wife Dorothy, dau. of George Clerke, Launde Abbey, Leics., and cousin of Sir Talbot Clerke, Bart. (qv); bapt. St. Anne’s, Soho May 1722 (IGI); adm. (aged 10) Jan 1732/3; left 1736; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 7 Nov 1739; 2nd Lieut., 5th Marines 26 Nov 1739; Lieut., Fleming’s Regt. (36th Foot), 18 Apr 1741; Capt., Onslow’s Regt. (8th Foot), 26 Jun 1744; Exempt, 1st Troop of Horse Guards 4 Jun 1746; Guidon and 2nd Maj., 21 Aug 1754; Cornet and 1st Maj., 7 Nov 1759; 2nd Lieut. and Lieut. -Col., 15 Apr 1761; 1st Lieut., 21 Nov 1763; retd. 31 Dec 1770; MP Totnes from 1768; inherited estates of Clerke family 1774; assumed additional surname of Clerke 26 Oct 1774; created baronet 26 Oct 1774; a witness for Lord George Gordon at his trial for high treason Feb 1781; a description of him at a dinner given by Mr Thrale will be found in Boswell’s Johnson (ed. Birkbeck Hill, iv, 80-1); of Dudleston, Shropshire, and Lyndhurst, Hampshire; High Sheriff, Hampshire 1766; one of the Verderers of the New Forest; m. before 1756 Anne, dau. of Col. Richard Thompson MP, Coley Park, Reading, Berks., and Jamaica; d. 14 Jan 1788.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.