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Sir Ivor was educated at Queen Elizabeth"s Hospital, Bristol (a boarding school), at Bristol Grammar School, and at, Cambridge.
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Sir Ivor was educated at Queen Elizabeth"s Hospital, Bristol (a boarding school), at Bristol Grammar School, and at, Cambridge.
He was a prominent educator who served as the Vice Chancellor of University of Cambridge (1961-1963) and University of Ceylon (1942-1955). Jennings joined the University of Leeds as a Lecturer in Law in 1925 and became a Holt Scholar of Gray’s Inn and was called to the bar in 1928. The following year he joined the London School of Economics as Lecturer in Law.
Jennings was sent to Ceylon by the British Government in 1942, as the Principal of the University College, Colombo with a mandate to create a university for that land, then a Crown colony.
The institution, on the model of University of London, was dubbed the University of Ceylon and was first established in Colombo, the capital city, then partially transferred in 1952 to a purpose-built campus in Peradeniya. During World World War II he served as the Deputy Civil Defense Commissioner.
He was knighted in 1948, made a Queen's Counsel in 1949, and awarded the Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1955. In 1955, Jennings received an honorary doctorate by vote of the senate of the University of Ceylon to recognize his work in creating and building the institution.
A hall of residence at the University of Peradeniya is named in his honour.
In the same year (1955) he returned to Britain to take up the post of Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He subsequently served a term as Vice-Chancellor at the University of Cambridge, a position which at that time rotated among the heads of the colleges. Jennings was an authority on constitutional law and is author of a definitive book on the workings of the then British constitution.
He advised Doctorate. South. Senanayake in drafting the Constitution of Ceylon to form the Dominion of Ceylon.
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He was a member of the Reid Commission from June 1956 to 1957, which was responsible for drafting the Constitution of the Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia).