Background
The only son of James Jennings, he was born at his father"s estate at Shiplake in Oxfordshire.
(The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration a...)
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the day-to-day workings of society. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T134526 An unfeigned admirer of genuine British jurisprudence = Henry Constantine Jennings. Also issued as part of "Summary and free reflections", 1798. London : printed for J. Debrett, 1785. iv,50p. ; 8°
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1140897063/?tag=2022091-20
(The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration a...)
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the day-to-day workings of society. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T110740 Anonymous. By Henry Constantine Jennings. The two unnumbered leaves are insertions. Chelmsford : printed by Clachar, Gray, and Co., 1787. 6,4,7-34p. ; 8°
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1140651781/?tag=2022091-20
(The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration a...)
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the day-to-day workings of society. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T110739 Anonymous. By Henry Constantine Jennings. Chelmsford : printed by Clachar, Gray, & Co., 1787. vi,82p. ; 8°
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1140651773/?tag=2022091-20
(The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration a...)
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T110742 Unfeigned admirer of genuine British jurisprudence = Henry Constantine Jennings. Also issued as part of "Summary and free reflections", 1788?. Chelmsford : printed by W. Clachar, and Co., 1785. iv,68p. ; 8°
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1140909118/?tag=2022091-20
The only son of James Jennings, he was born at his father"s estate at Shiplake in Oxfordshire.
He attended Westminster School and is buried at Street Margaret"s, Westminster. He was educated at Westminster School, and at the age of seventeen became an ensign in the 1st Foot Guards.
He was known as "Dog Jennings" after lieutenant Resigning his commission soon after, he went abroad. He spent eight years in Italy (three of them in Rome), and subsequently visited Sicily.
In Italy he became acquainted with the Marquess of Blandford, and is said to have suggested to him the formation of the cabinet of "Marlborough Gems".
While in Rome Jennings purchased antiquities from Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, the sculptor and art-dealer. In a back street in the city he discovered in workshop rubbish the marble "Jennings Dog", and purchased lieutenant
lieutenant was sold by Jennings at Christie"s, on 4 April 1778 for one thousand guineas, to Charles Duncombe. On his return to England (perhaps about 1756) Jennings passed a country-gentleman"s life on his estate at Shiplake.
Taking to horse-racing, he lost money heavily, and in 1778 sold his collections and the famous dog.
Soon after he settled in Essex and collected objects of vertu. He was later a prisoner for debt in Chelmsford gaol. He had borrowed and not repaid £1,600 from Chase Price, receiver-general of South Wales, who died indebted to the crown, and an "extent in aid" was issued by the crown against Jennings.
He was forced to sell his new collections at a loss.
About 1792 Jennings came to London, where he resided in the first house on the east side of Lindsey Row, Chelsea. Here he amused himself with writing and with forming a new collection until about 1816.
His health failing and with money troubles, his collections remained unsold, and he is said to have had an income from West Indian property. He died, aged 88, on 17 February 1819, at his lodgings in Belvidere Place, Street George"s Fields, within the rules of the King"s Bench.
At the time of his death he had before the House of Lords a claim for a barony in abeyance.
He was eccentric in his habits, and was believed by his friends to keep an oven in his house for the cremation of his body. Jennings married, first, about 1760, Juliana Atkinson, who died in 1761, and by whom he had a son, John Henry. Secondly, a daughter of Roger Newell of Bobins Place, Kent.
(The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration a...)
(The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration a...)
(The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration a...)
(The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration a...)