John Jennings (priest)

John Jennings (1798 – 26 March 1883) was Archdeacon of Westminster from 1868 until his death in 1883.[1]

Alumni Cantabrigienses previously identified the John Jennings educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge as "doubtless" the Rector of St John's and Archdeacon of Westminster, but now states that this is a mistaken identity:[2] Archdeacon Jennings was educated at Trinity College Dublin, graduating B.A. 1820, M.A. 1832.[3]

After a curacy at West Meon, Hampshire, Jennings moved to St John's, Smith Square as a curate to Canon H. H. Edwards, succeeding Edwards as rector on Edwards's resignation in 1832. He became a canon of Westminster Abbey in 1837, Rural dean of St Margaret and St John, Archdeacon of Westminster in 1868, and Sub-Dean.[3]

References

  1. ^ Westminster sculpture
  2. ^ "Jennings, the Rev. John (JNNS825J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ a b Smith, J. E. (1892). St. John the Evangelist, Westminster: Parochial Memorials. p. 88. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
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