Joseph Clayton Jennings later Jennyns

Barrister and reformer, brother of John Packwood Jennings (q.v.) and beneficiary of an annuity of £200 p.a. from 'property in the West Indies' that John Packwood Jennings in his will desired his residuary legatees to continue paying to his brother.

1. Adm. Fell.-Com. at TRINITY HALL, Oct. 17, 1787. [Elder] s. of Richard Downing, of Eustatia [Bermuda]. Adm. at Lincoln's Inn, Nov. 3, 1786; migrated to the Inner Temple, Nov. 20, 1797. (Inns of Court.). Burial of Joseph Clayton Jennyns aged 80 of Borough Road at St George the Martyr Southwark 08/08/1839.

2. Unsuccessfully contested Gatton in 1803, when he was supported by [Major] Cartwright and Thomas Holt White; spokesman for Sir Francis Burdett in the 1807 election. Purchased The Champion in August 1817 (when William Hazlitt recommenced as a contributor). Served in Demerara as fiscal c. 1815. Joseph Clayton Jennyns was made bankrupt in 1819.

Will of John Packwood Jennings of Demerary proved 30/08/1827. PROB 11/1729/447.

1. Ancestry.com, Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 [database online]; Ancestry.com, London, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980 [database online].

2. R. G. Thorne, History of Parliament, The House of Commons 1790-1820 (1986) Vol. I Survey pp. 273, 380; Duncan Wu, William Hazlitt: the first modern man (2008); Substance of a Correspondence Between the Right Hon. Earl Bathurst and J. Clayton Jennyns, Esq., Late Second Fiscal of the Colonies of Demerara and Essequebo, and which Has Led to His Resignation (1817); London Gazette 17441 16/01/1819 p. 116.