Impétueux 74, Capts. John Lawford, David Milne, and Chas. Inglis, he further served in that ship off the coasts of Portugal and Africa, as also in the Baltic and Channel, part of the time under the flag of the present Sir Geo. Martin, until Dec. 1812. His subsequent appointments were – 12 Nov. 1813, to the Myrmidon 20, Capts. Wm. Paterson and Robt. Gambier, with whom he cruized in the Channel and off Madeira and Teneriffe until Oct. 1815 – 26 Aug. 1818 and 29 March, 1820, to the Rochfort 80, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Fras. Fremantle, and Liffey 50, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan, both on the Mediterranean station, whence he returned in the latter ship to England in the summer of 1821 – 27 Feb. 1827, to the Dartmouth 42, Capt. Sir Thos. Fellowes, from which frigate he invalided in the following May – 17 Sept. 1842, to the San Josef 110, flag-ship of Sir David Milne at Plymouth – and, 22 May, 1845, as Senior, to the Caledonia 120, Capt. Manley Dixon, lying at the same port. He has been on half-pay since the close of the latter year.
JENKINSON. (Captain, 1814. f-p., 11; h-p., 33.)
Henry Jenkinson is eldest son of Lieut.-General John Jenkinson.
This officer (who had been for three years a student at the Royal Naval Academy) first embarked, in Oct. 1806, as a Supernumerary Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Royal William, flag-ship of Admiral Montagu at Spithead. He removed soon afterwards to the Décade 36, Capt. John Stuart, with whom he cruized on the Bermuda, Channel, and Irish stations, the greater part of the time as Midshipman, until June, 1809. On 11 of the following Dec, after having accompanied the expedition to the Walcheren in the Venerable 74, Capt. Andrew King, Mr. Jenkinson was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. He was employed, during the next two years and a half, chiefly on the North Sea and Lisbon stations, in the Clyde and Inconstant frigates, bearing each the broad pendant of Commodore Edw. W. C. R. Owen, and Impétueux 74, flag-ship of Vice Admiral Geo. Martin; was made Commander, 13 Aug. 1812, into the Jasper sloop; and after commanding that vessel for nearly two years was advanced to Post-rank 7 June, 1814. His acceptance of the Retirement took place 1 Oct. 1846.
Capt. Jenkinson married, 25 Aug. 1823, Elizabeth Lucy Theresa, youngest daughter of the late Sir Thos. Dyke Acland, Bart., M.P. for North Devon.
JENNER. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
George Jenner was born 21 Nov. 1791, in Suffolk.
This officer entered the Navy, 18 May, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Milan 38, Capt. Robt. Laurie, in which frigate he was employed in escorting convoy to Halifax, blockading the Chesapeake, and conveying troops and stores to Lisbon. On 23 Sept. 1810, a few days after he had been paid off, he became Midshipman of the Désirée 36, Capt. Arthur Farquhar, attached to the force in the North Sea, where he served for some time off the Texel, and assisted at the capture, among other vessels, of the Velocifère, French privateer of 14 guns and 56 men. From the Désirée, in whose boats he had been more than once employed, Mr. Jenner removed, in Oct. 1811, to the Ajax 74, Capts. Sir R. Laurie, Robt. Waller Otway, and Geo. Mundy. Continuing in that ship until Oct. 1814, he was at first stationed off Toulon and Sicily. He afterwards cruized in the Bays of Biscay and Quiberon, and, besides witnessing the fall of St. Sebastian in Sept. 1813, was present at the taking, 17 March, 1814, of L’Alcyon, national brig of 16 guns and 120 men. In the boats of the Ajax he proved instrumental to the capture of several merchantmen; and on one occasion in 1812 he had the satisfaction of being complimented by his Captain, Otway, for his conduct at the capture of the Ned American schooner. Since the attainment of his present rank, 20 March, 1815, Lieut. Jenner (who, prior to leaving the Ajax, had made a voyage with troops to Quebec) has been on half-pay.
He married, 22 Feb. 1822, Sarah, daughter of Thos. Youngs, Esq., of Mendham, Suffolk.
JENNER. (Commander, 1847.)
Robert Jenner is third son of the Right Hon. Sir Herbert Jenner Fust, D.C.L., Dean of the Arches, and Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, by the youngest daughter of the late General Lascelles; and first-cousin and brother-in-law of the present Robt. Fras. Jenner, Esq., of Wenvoe Castle, co. Glamorgan.
This officer entered the Navy 19 June, 1826; passed his examination in 1832; obtained his first commission 26 Oct. 1840; was then appointed Additional-Lieutenant of the Princess Charlotte 104, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford; and afterwards joined – 17 Feb. 1841, the Thunderer 84, Capt. Dan. Pring, employed on the latter station and in attendance on the Queen off Walmer Castle – 3 Dec. 1843, the St. Vincent 120, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Rowley at Portsmouth – and, 26 Sept. 1845, the Excellent gunnery-ship, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, of which he became First-Lieutenant. He attained his present rank 27 Jan. 1847.
The Commander married, in 1843, Selina Helen, youngest daughter of the late Jas. Jameson, Esq., of Calcutta, by whom he has issue. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
JENNINGS. (Lieut., 1813. f-p., 23; h-p., 19.)
Edward Jennings, born 28 Aug. 1793, at Kelvedon, co. Essex, is eldest son of David Jennings, Esq., of Ballingrove, Ireland, a Captain in the Army, by Mary, eldest daughter of Colin Campbell, Esq., of Jamaica.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College in Aug. 1805; and embarked in Jan. 1809, as Midshipman, on board the Valiant 74, Capts. John Bligh, Thos. Geo. Shortland, John Nash, and Robt. Dudley Oliver. After witnessing Lord Cochrane’s destruction of the shipping in Aix Roads, sharing also in the attack upon Flushing, and serving off Rochefort and L’Orient, he successively joined, in 1811-12, the Christian VII. and Impregnable, both flagships in the North Sea of Admiral Wm. Young, and the Inconstant 36, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Edw. W. C. R. Owen. During a winter-cruize of three months in the latter ship among the Western Isles, in 1812-13, Mr. Jennings, who had passed his examination in Sept. 1812, had charge of a watch, and was employed, with the Dublin 74, in search of an American squadron. On 27 May, 1813, he was appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the Calliope 10, Capt. John M‘Kerlie, under whom we find him stationed in the river Elbe during the occupation of Hamburg and Cuxhaven by the French. In the following Sept. he joined the Richmond 12, Capt. Edw. O’Shaughnessy, into which vessel, it appears, he had been confirmed by commission bearing the same date as his acting order. Mr. Jennings’ next appointment was, 27 March, 1814, to the Niobe 38, commanded at first by Capt. •Wm. Augustus Montagu as an Active frigate on the Lisbon station, and afterwards as an hospital and troop ship by Capt. Henry Colins Deacon; under whom he conveyed the sick of the Russian Imperial Guards to Cronstadt, and, independently of a participation in several particular services, assisted at the reduction of Guadeloupe in 1815. The Niobe being paid off in March, 1816, he was afterwards employed in command – from 24 Nov. 1823 until June, 1828, again from 6 June, 1834, until Feb. 1839, and from the latter date until March, 1842 – of the Plover, Tyrian, and Alert packets, on the Mediterranean, North and South American, West India, and Lisbon stations.
Lieut. Jennings is the author of a nautical work of great practical utility, teeming with instruction to officers of all ages, stamped with the approbation
