Sir Philip Jennings-Clerke, 1st Baronet (c. 1722 – January 1788) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1788, and the 1st Jennings-Clerke Baronet.
Life edit
Jennings was the son of Philip Jennings of Duddleston Hall, Shropshire, and was baptised Philip Jennings.[1] He was educated at Westminster School. He married Anne Thompson, the daughter of Colonel Richard Thompson of Jamaica and Coley Park, Reading.[2] He had an "undistinguished military career"[3] in the Horse Guards attaining the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.[1] He succeeded to the estates of his maternal uncle Sir Talbot Clerke, 6th Baronet,[2] and changed his name to Jennings-Clerke in the early 1760s.[1] Around 1770 he bought a lodge now known as Foxlease, just outside Lyndhurst, Hampshire, and converted it into a grand, two-storey mansion.[1]
Jennings was a Member of Parliament for Totnes between 1768 and 1788.[1] He was created 1st Baronet Jennings-Clerke of Duddlestone Hall on 26 October 1774.[1]
His only remaining son, Sir Charles Philip Jennings survived him by only a few months, whereupon the baronetcy became extinct.[4]
Children edit
His children included:
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f Foxlease – the early years, www.newforestexplorersguide.co.uk, retrieved 28 March 2014
- ^ a b Lewis Bernstein Namier, John Brooke (1985), The House of Commons 1754-1790, page 680. ISBN 0436304201
- ^ Juliet Gardiner (2000), The History today, Who's who in British history, page 184. ISBN 1855857715
- ^ a b The Gentleman's Magazine (1789), Volume 58, Part 1, page 372
- ^ Person Page – 22864, The Peerage, retrieved 28 March 2014
- ^ Anne Duncombe (Jennings Clerke), Geni, retrieved 28 March 2014
- ^ "Record Transcription:Westminster Baptisms". Findmypast. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- ^ "Southampton, Saturday, Aug.2". Hampshire Chronicle. 4 August 1777. p. 3.
- ^ John Debrett (1828), Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland, page 427
- ^ The Gentleman's Magazine (1821), Volume 129, page 476
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