Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Jennings, Henry Constantine, 1731-1819
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1731-1819
History
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.
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
Institution identifier
GB 2014
Rules and/or conventions used
International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
Status
Final
Level of detail
Full
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
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.