The Jennings Line
Ellen left England in 1878 and travelled to China with Rev Arthur Elwin and his wife Mary as a governess.
Tracing Ellen’s family
Elizabeth Finnis was the daughter of Robert Finnis and Ann Spicer. Robert and Ann wee married at St Mary the Virgin Church in Kent on 28th November 1750.
Mary’s brother Robert Finnis Jennings was a solicitor and
he was responsible for sorting out all the wills and the executors. Her
other brother Peter Harnett Jennings was a minister. One can imagine that
he may have been out of his depth whilst running the Pub!
Following Rev Peter Harnett Jennings
In 1846 he was ordained the deacon of Winchester
Ellen’s family were involved in the Anglican Church.
Her father Rev Peter Harnett Jennings was a minister
Ellen left England in 1878 and travelled to China with Rev Arthur Elwin and his wife Mary as a governess.
Tracing Ellen’s family
George Jennings
Peter Harnett Jennings was the son of George Jennings b
1790 in Dover Kent. He married Mary Harnett in 1801. He died in
1861 in Dover Kent.
He was the son of George
Jennings b 1778 in Dover
Kent, who married Mary Harnett in 1801.
George Jennings was the son of George Jennings who was born 1753. In 1777 he
married Susannah Balderstone.
He was listed on the marriage record as a widower.
They had two children, George born 1778 and Elizabeth born
1779
Susannah died 26th January 1787. She is the 4th Great grandmother.
Their son, George was quite an influential person in Kent.
George married Mary Harnett in 1801 In 1822 he and his wife were involved with
the lease of a property at Coldred Manor to his children and relatives.
George was listed as being a woolstapler. (dealer in wool)
Date
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10 11 Jul 1822
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Description
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Settlement by lease for one year and release by Mary
and Katherine Finnis, and Elizabeth Harnett, to George Jennings, woolstapler,
and Matthew Kennett, gentleman, both of Dover, to the use of Robert Potter,
and Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Elizabeth Harnett: Coldred manor and
Home Meadow and Homestead
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Coldred is a small rural community, some 7 miles NW of Dover. One of the
highest places in East Kent, nearly 400 ft above sea level, it has the
reputation of being a "healthy and salubrious place in which to live".
As far back as 1700, Coldred held the county record for the longevity of its
inhabitants. With just 55 dwellings and a church, the rural scene has changed
very little over the centuries. Coldred at one time had two forges. Attached at
Coldred Manor, on Church Road just past the green was a small private forge run
by Mr Harry Marsh during the 1930s and 40's. The flint building inside the
Manor entrance, now converted to a garage was the original workshop.
With a fir, bellows and anvil it was used primarily for
shoeing the farm horses. Ideally situated on a site beside the present
Parsonage Farm, the public forge was a busy and vital part of the early village
life. Intriguingly enough a quantity of Blacksmiths tools were found during
recent re-building work on the land adjoining Colret House. Voted Kent's best-kept village,
Coldred is one of the highest places in East Kent at nearly 400 feet above sea
level. There are two suggestions as to how the village may have got its
name: from Ceoldred, King of Mercia, said to have come here in AD 715 to help
the Men of Kent in their fight against Ina, King of the West Saxons, at
Woodnesborough, near Sandwich; from the Old English word for charcoal burning -
once a local industry.
COLDRED MANOR
A short stroll along Church Lane is Coldred Manor. A lovely
old house, the facade is early Georgian. Like most local sites, there is
evidence of an earlier building. The rear of the Manor shows walls built with
local flint, and plastered-over rubble.
The interior has an interesting architectural blend of
styles. The decor is mainly classical Georgian, although there are other and
older period features.
One of the rooms has a massive oak plank salvaged from a
shipwreck, possibly 17th century, and used as a supporting beam.
A mellow brick wall, granted a preservation order, borders
the front garden. The old flint and brick building by the main gate, just
visible in the photograph, was the private forge
In 1851 he was recorded on the census as
living at Shrubbery House, Buckland in Kent. He referred to himself as a
“landed gentleman”.
Around 1858 he was listed as living in Shrewsbury,
lived at Buckland in Dover Kent in the years from 1830. They had
four children. George died in Buckland Kent, and a member of the Gentry
who owned a public house. It appears that he died in 1861. Mary
died in 1863.
· Shrubbery
Cottages Details
Between Dodds Lane and Mangers Place
probably took their name from The Shrubbery better known between the wars as
the Coleman Convalescent Home and now the residential quarters for nurses at
the local hospitals. The Shrubbery is the oldest house in the neighbourhood
having been built it is believed in the 18th century for Vice-Admiral Sir John Bentley
the then owner of Buckland Manor.
Buckland including Buckland
Valley is a village near (and
now merged with) Dover,
England. It is noted for its Saxon cemetery whose finds now belong to the British
Museum but are on display at Dover Museum.
Mary Harnett was born 1780 and died 1863. She was the daughter of Peter
Harnett and Elizabeth Finnis. Peter Harnett and Elizabeth Finnis were
married by licence, 9th April
1768
She was born in Lydden, Kent.
Lydden is a civil
parish and small village in the Dover district
of Kent, England. The Lydden Race Circuit is located between here and Wootton to the west of the village. Lydden village consists of a triangle of 3
roads: Canterbury Road (part of the old A2 running between Dover, Canterbury
and London), Stonehall and Church Lane.
The Shrubbery
Dover
Sep 9. 1844.
Sir,
Having for some years endeavoured to procure a Frank of
yours without success, a desire to complete my collection of the autographs of
the House of Commons. Together with a fear of not being able to obtain it by
other means have induced me to apply to you for an envelope dated during the
time You sat in the House Trusting you will excuse this liberty
I have the honour to be Sir,
Your obt Servant
Peter H Jenning
W. H. F. Talbot Esq
Elizabeth Finnis was the daughter of Robert Finnis and Ann Spicer. Robert and Ann wee married at St Mary the Virgin Church in Kent on 28th November 1750.
St Mary the Virgin Church Dover, restoration has been done,
to restore window destroyed in WW2
Peter Harnett –may have been involved in the Church or had some sort of wealth.
In 1791 the lands of Cocklescombe were sold to Peter
Harnett in whose family it remained until recent years.
(History of Lydden 1901 entry in Dover Express)
There are but two mural tablets in the Church, the one
which is on the north side of the chancel being in memory of Peter Harnett one
of the later owners of Cocklescombe Manor, and his descendants. The first
person mentioned on the slab is Peter Harnett who died 1818, aged 76 next Peter
Harnett his son who died 1820 aged 51 years.
Then follows the record of the death of Peter
Jennings son of the above who died 1822 aged 3 years. Next Elizabeth Harnett
wife of Peter Harnett sen, who died 16th April 1837 aged 89. Next George
Jennings of the Shrubbery Buckland who died 17th February 1861 aged 84 years and Mary
Jennings his wife (daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Harnett) who died 14thJuly
1863 aged 83 years.
George Jennings and Mary Harnett had the
following children:
George Finch
Jennings 1802 –
1866
Mary
Jennings
1806 - 1865
Robert Finnis
Jennings 1815 –
1896 i
Peter Hartnett Jennings
1816 – 1893
Adelaide
Jennings
1820 - 1881
Their children were provided with the second names of their
ancestors.
George Finch Jennings married Hester Worthington. George and Hester lived in
Buckland in Kent, and he was a magistrate. He was also listed as living
in Lostbrook Cottage, Eastbrook Place Buckland in 1858, and owner of a public
house. He may have owned it with his father.
On 29th September 1831 George Finch JENNINGS bachelor of
St Mary Dover to Hester WORTHINGTON spinster this parish by Licence. Witnessed
by Charlotte WORTHINGTON and Charles CARLIN
In 1836 he was a Commissioner for the Town of Dover. In
1853 he was party to an appeal from the Churchwardens of the parish of Reculver
to removed one Sarah Ann King and her three children from the parish of St Mary
the Virgin Dover
St Peter and Paul, Charlton
Dover 1827
It appears they had no children. Hester’s family were
quite well known in Dover.
Hester died February 1874
The Worthington family of Dover achieved a certain
prominence in Kent, in the 18th and early 19th centuries, as barrel-markers
and, perhaps paradoxically, since contraband liquor usually came in barrels, as
officers of the Customs Service. This new exploration of their family history
adds significantly to published Worthington genealogy; mainly confined,
previously, to the basic study of their roots. 'The Worthington Families of
Medieval England' (Phillimore, 1985). Apart from its intrinsic interest to
Worthington’s world-wide, the book holds equal appeal to anyone concerned with
the work of the Revenue Service at the height of the smuggling era - or simply
intrigued by the story of smuggling!
This is largely due to the vast amount of material
unearthed by the author relating to the book's principal hero ... Benjamin
Jelly Worthington (1763-1822), a Customs Cutter Commander responsible for one
of the busiest sections of the south coast.
The literature of the smuggling phenomenon is almost
monopolised by studies of the smugglers themselves, so that this account of the
work of their enemy, the Customs Officer, provides an unusual and fascinating
insight into the life and problems of the Revenue men.
They worked in a climate hostile to their efforts, yet
throughout his 40 year career Benjamin Jelly Worthington demonstrated quite
remarkable zeal in the pursuit of his prey and the seizure of their contraband.
In the mid-19th century the family began to disperse. One
branch went to Lowestoft where three generations became doctors. Some of the
Dover family also became doctors and several families with to New Zealand where
they were farming pioneers. One of Lieutenant Benjamin's sons went to Wales and
some of his descendants are still there. Sea-faring remained a strong
attraction amongst the Dover, Welsh, Canadian and New Zealand descendants.
Others became artists; three of the family were knighted, and brewing continued
to be a family occupation up to the end of the 19th century.
It was Sir Anthony Wagner, when Garet King of Arms, who
first drew attention to the great potential of the growth of serious and
scholarly research into family history to provide unexpected but invaluable
contributions to the fabric of history proper. This book amply confirms his
confidence in the conversion of the old-time pedigree hunters into
fully-fledged historical researchers. The author, in seeking to illuminate the
Worthington’s of Dover, has thrown light on maritime, social, economic and
local history and, at the same time, provided and essential source-book for all
future students of smuggling!
HM Hired armed cutter Tartar served the Royal Navy from 14 July 1794 to 11 November 1801.
She was of 9063/94 tons burthen and was armed with twelve 4-pounder
guns
Tartar was a popular name for British privateers with some 23 letters
of marque being issued
between 1793 and 1815. Among these there was one 90-ton cutter. She was armed
with eight 2-pounder guns and six swivel guns.
Her crew of 24 men was under the command of Benjamin Jelly Worthington, and her
letter was dated 25 February 1793.
While not His Majesty's Hired armed cutter Tartar, a privateer named Tartar made a notable capture in 1804. This Tartar received her letter of marque on 6
February 1804. Her letter
describes her as a lugger, under the command of Francis Pironet, Master, of 116
tons and armed with eight 4- and 6-pounder guns. Writing to Admiral Sir James Saumarez from Guernsey on 18 March 1804, the owners Peter
Maingy and Sons reported that on 9 March their lugger Tartar had captured the French privateer brig Jeune Henry.
Tartar had encountered and captured the French brig after a fight of two
hours. Jeune Henry was from Bordeaux and under the
command of Rio Delagesse. She had sailed from Viverro in Spain two days earlier but had not
yet captured anything. The owners of Tartar described Jeune Henry as a fine, British-built and coppered
vessel. Both vessels had 50 men on board; Jeune
Henry had two wounded in the
engagement. What made the capture noteworthy though, was that Jeune Henry was armed with twelve 12-pounder guns
and two 4-pounders, whereas Tartar had ten 4-pounders, giving the French
brig a broadside of almost four times the weight of that of her captor.
Interestingly, there was a later letter of marque issued to
a cutter Tartar, Benjamin
J. Worthington, Master, issued on 9 June 1803. This Tartar was described as being of 103 tons,
armed with eight 4 and 6-pounder guns, and having a crew of 25 men.
Must have been quite helpful, with their son-in-law the
local magistrate!
George died in 1866 in Dover, Kent, and Hester died in
1874.
Mary Jennings married a relative
of Hester, named Henry Worthington. Mary was born in 1806 and died in
1865 in Belgium. Henry died some 4 months later in 1866, in Belgium.
In Kelly's 1855 Directory, Henry Worthington is described
as a farmer and brewer of Folkestone Road in the Parish of Hougham. Henry alone
is listed as owner of the Snargate Steet wine vaults from 17 October 1855 until
8 January 1863, with D. Barnard the occupier. The Crown appears as owner in
October 1863 and Barnard and Co. own and occupy them from January 1864.
Two of Henry's sons were known to be brewers. The last
record of a brewer in the family relates to his youngest son Robert. The 1870
Kent Post Office Directory includes under brewers: Robert Worthington, Maxton,
Hougham, Dover.
The brewery premises, along with all his estate in Maxton,
were left in Henry's will dated 16 December 1865, to his brothers-in-law, the Rev. Peter Harnett Jennings of Longfield Rectory, Gravesend and Robert Finnis Jennings of River, Esquire. These properties
were left in trust, to pay yearly rent equally to his daughters Sophia and
Maria Henrietta while they remained single. Upon their marriage or deaths the
properties were to be sold at auction.
After Sophia's death in Rome in 1883 and Maria's 1885
marriage in Rome the estate was auctioned on 30 July 1885 in accordance with
the terms of the will. John James AlIen was the successful bidder for '...All
the Manor or Lordship of Maxton in the Parish of Hougham otherwise Huffam... And
also all the messuage of dwellinghouse called Maxton with the Brewery brick
chimney shafts and other erections and buildings.' AlIen payed £1,500 for the
house and grounds and £350 for the brewery.
His purchase also
included: 'all that messuage or tenement beer house and premises known by the
name or sign of the "Hare and Hounds"
and the appurtenances thereto belonging situated at Maxton'. It appears from
the property's sale indenture that Robert Worthington was the lessee of the
brewery and beer house which were situated within a mile of each other.
Mary and Henry had 9 children and some of those children
died while fairly young.
This picture published by Batcheller, in 1841, depicts
Worthington's celebrated Hotel and Ship Inn, once known as the Royal Ship
Hotel, facing the Granville Dock on Custom House Quay. Adjoining is
Northumberland House. This hotel was active in 1799 with Worthington the host.
Before the "Lord Warden" days it was noted for receiving
"crowned heads" and other notable. Marshal Blucher was there in 1814.
History has it that Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, was carried shoulder high
to this amenity when he returned from the low countries following Waterloo in
1815. "Byron life and legend" by Fiona MacCarthy states on page 279
that Lord Byron stayed in the "Ships Inn," Dover before he left
England for the last time in 1816.
Robert Finnis Jennings was born 1815 and he married Emma Sladden 10th December 1845 Her father had a
property known as The New Farm in Christ Church Canterbury and lived at
Broomfield
Robert was a solicitor, and they lived at River House,
River in Kent. He must have been quite successful, as he had 7 servants
in 1851!
In 1848 one of his employees was jailed for stealing
uncleaned barley from his property at Northborne.
He was appointed a guardian of the poor of the parish in
1865 and in 1869 he was selling his property East Bottom Farm, Ringwold, near
Dover. Having 400 acres, and a dairy herd.
He also lived at the old River Workhouse.
River is a village and civil
parish Kent, England, United
Kingdom, situated between the historic town of Dover and the neighbouring village of Temple
Ewell. "Village" is a somewhat loose term for River; it is a
community of several thousand and is probably more usefully regarded as a
suburb of Dover. After a period of rapid housing development in the 1960s and
1970s, the size and population of River has largely stabilised in recent
decades, and little new development is now seen. This is partly because River
lies in a steep chalk valley which affords little scope for further expansion.
However, it is also true that the Dover area is historically not in the
vanguard of high economic growth, being tied almost exclusively to the
cross-channel port and various support industries, which have witnessed a
gradual decline since the opening of the Channel
Tunnel. In transport terms River is well connected, being close to the A2 and A20 trunk routes,
having a railway station at Kearsney with direct services to London, and of
course being only 3 miles (5 km) from the Port of Dover itself.
Peter Harnett Jenning married Elizabeth Mudge.
Peter Harnett Jennings married Elizabeth Mudge. Elizabeth’s family were quite
famous.
Peter married Elizabeth Mudge October 2nd 1847, at St John’s Dover
They had seven children
Harnett Ellison
Jennings
b 1848
d 1939
Married Agnes Mary Jeken b 1846
Rev
Harnet Jennings went to Cambridge as did his son Charles.
Katherine Bessie Jennings
b
1849 d
1905
Katherine
did not marry and in 1891 was living with her brother in law James Henry
Sedgwick and
his son Harold.
Ellen Dumergue
Jennings
b 1850
d 1883
m James Henry Sedgwick
Ada Mary Geraldine
Jennings b 1854
d 1879
William Henry Mudge Jennings
b 1856
d 1881
Courtenay Balderston Jennings b 1860
d 1954
m Emma
Garmeson b 1857
Peter lost his wife in 1861, and at that time his children
were quite young. and in the 1861 census, Ellen aged 10 was living with her
grandparents, Robert and Caroline Mudge at St Martins Street Dover.
Sadly only two of his children lived a long life, both were
Anglican ministers.
This is the house that she lived in with her grandparents
on top of a hill, and her grandfather had to walk all the way down to the Port
for work. From the lounge room you can see France. The current
occupant is a little old 93 year old lady!
Following Rev Peter Harnett Jennings
Peter was born in 1816 in Dover Kent, and was christened at
St Mary the Virgin Church in Dover, as had been his parents.
In 1841 he was living with his great aunt, Katherine
Finnis, his grandfather George Jennings and his sister Adelaide and cousin
Elizabeth Worthington in Shrubbery House, Buckland, Kent.
Between 1846 and 1849 he was the Cleric of Tadcaster
Yorkshire.
St. Mary's Church (15th century) Tadcaster, North Yorkshire
St Mary’s Church is mainly 15th century and perpendicular style with pinnacles. It is to be found in an attractive riverside setting with Roman connections. Mentioned by Bede. Interior has a magnificent east window by Morris/Burne-Jones and an unusual English window by Stephen Adam. Good woodwork and many interesting memorials.
St Mary’s Church is mainly 15th century and perpendicular style with pinnacles. It is to be found in an attractive riverside setting with Roman connections. Mentioned by Bede. Interior has a magnificent east window by Morris/Burne-Jones and an unusual English window by Stephen Adam. Good woodwork and many interesting memorials.
In 1846 he was ordained the deacon of Winchester
Winchester Cathedral is a Church
of England cathedral in Winchester, Hampshire,
England. It is one of the largest cathedrals in England, with the longest nave and greatest overall length of any Gothic cathedral
in Europe.[1] Dedicated to the Holy Trinity, Saint Peter, Saint
Paul, and Saint Swithun, it
is the seat of the Bishop of Winchester and centre of the Diocese of Winchester. The cathedral is a
Grade I listed building. And for those old enough to remember
became the words of a song sung by the Beatles and others!
In 1847 he was the Cleric of Richmond, Surrey St Mary’s
In 1847 he married Elizabeth Mudge in Dover.
From 1849 to 1853 he was the Minister at St Paul’s
Southampton and All Saints Southampton.
In 1853 he was the Chaplain at the royal Infirmary Southampton.
In 1859 he became the Principal of the Operative Jewish Converts’
Institution at Bethnel Green London
Perhaps he and Ellen's husband had something in common that led them to
Jerusalem
The society began in the early 19th century, when leading evangelicals,
including members of the influential Clapham Sect such as William Wilberforce, and Charles
Simeon, decided that there was an unmet need to promote Christianity
among the Jews. In 1809 they formed the London
Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews. The missionary Joseph Frey is often credited with the instigation
of the break with the London Missionary Society. A later
missionary was C. W. H.
Pauli.
Abbreviated forms such as the London
Jews' Society or simply The Jews' Society were adopted for general use. The
original agenda of the society was:
- Declaring the
Messiahship of Jesus to the Jew first and also to the non-Jew
- Endeavouring to
teach the Church its Jewish roots
- Encouraging the
physical restoration of the Jewish people to Eretz Israel - the Land of
Israel
- Encouraging the
Hebrew Christian/Messianic Jewish movement
The society's work began among the poor Jewish immigrants in the East End of London and soon spread to Europe, South
America, Africa and Palestine. In 1811, a five-acre field on the Cambridge Road
in Bethnal Green,
east London, was leased as a centre for missionary operations. A school,
training college and a church called the Episcopal
Jews' Chapel were built here.
The complex was named Palestine
Place. In 1813, a
Hebrew-Christian congregation called Benei
Abraham (Children of Abraham)
started meeting at the chapel in Palestine Place. This was the first recorded
assembly of Jewish
believers in Jesus and
the forerunner of today's Messianic
Jewish congregations.
The London Jews Society was the first such society to work on a global
basis.[1] In 1836, two missionaries were sent to Jerusalem:
Dr. Albert Gerstmann, a physician, and Melville Bergheim, a pharmacist, who
opened a clinic that provided free medical services. By 1844, it had become a
24-bed hospital.[8]
In its heyday, the society had over 250 missionaries. It supported the creation of the post
of Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem in 1841, and the first incumbent was
one of its workers, Michael Solomon Alexander.[10] The society was active in the
establishment of Christ Church, Jerusalem, the oldest Protestant church in the Middle East, completed
in 1849.
In 1863, the society purchased property outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem.
In 1897, they opened a hospital on the site, designed by architect Arthur Beresford Pite. Today, the building
houses the Anglican
International School Jerusalem, which is operated by the society.]
In 1914, the society was described as
...the oldest, largest, richest, most enterprising, and best organized
of its type, and has auxiliary societies throughout the British Isles and
Canada. The society, whose income in 1900-01 was £46,338, with an expenditure
of £36,910, employed at 52 missionary stations 199 workers, among them 25
clergymen, 19 physicians, 34 female missionaries, 20 lay missionaries, 35 colporteurs,
58 teachers, and 8 apothecaries. Of these, 82 were converts from Judaism. Of
the 52 stations 18 are in England, 3 in Austria, 1 in France, 4 in Germany, 2
in Holland, 1 in Italy, 4 in Rumania, 1 in Russia, 1 in Constantinople; in Asia
there are 10 stations, among them Jerusalem with 27 workers; in Africa there
are 7 stations. About 5,000 Jews have been baptized by the society since its
foundation. Its principal organs are the Jewish
Missionary Intelligence and
the Jewish Missionary Advocate.
The organisation is one of the eleven official mission agencies of the
Church of England. It currently has branches in the United Kingdom, Israel,
Ireland, the USA, Canada, South Africa, Hong Kong, and Australia.
In 1860 he was the cleric at Hoxley Essex
From 1861 to 1865 he was the Cleric at Lilley Hertfordshire
All Saints Church, the Anglican parish church,
is Grade
I-listed and dates
from the 12th century. It is supplemented by the All Saints Church Centre in
the centre of the village, which is used as a church hall and for worship. St Francis de Sales' Roman
Catholic church, a
Grade II-listed building, is a 17th-century former barn with timber
framing and a thatched roof Hartley United Reformed Church
(formerly Congregational) was registered for worship
in 1936 but has closed and has been put up for sale.
In 1881 Peter
had remarried Ellinor Frances Frewen Fletcher and they were living at 8
Campden-hill Square, Kensingston London
Rev Peter Harnett Jennings died 2nd August 1893.
June 11 1881 at the parish church of St Mary Abbott’s
Kengsington the Rev P Harnett Jennings MA Rector of Longford Kent to Ellinor
Frances, eldest daughter of the late William Fletcher Esq of the India Board,
Westminster and Notting hill Square.
1. Harnett Ellison Jennings
Harnett
Ellison Jennings married Agnes Mary Jeken. He was the Vicar of St
Clement’s East Dulwich for 51 years and a clerk in Holy Orders for 65.
They were married February 1st 1872, and celebrated their 65th wedding
anniversary in 1937.
In
1873 they were living in Palmacotta India, where their eldest son was born. And
later at 11
Maison Dieu Road, Dover.
They
had four children:
John Harnett
Jennings
1873
Catherine Mary
Jennings
1877
Charles
Jennings
1881 –
1979 He married Margaret Tate.
William
Jennings
1882
Both he and his sons went to Cambridge University and which
provide the following information.
COLLEGE: CORPUS CHRISTI
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Michs. 1868
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14 Aug 1848
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26 Jan 1939
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Peter went to Cambridge and his record is listed
below:
Adm. pens. at CORPUS CHRISTI, Oct. 1,
1868. [S. of the Rev. Peter Harnett (1839), and Elizabeth Mudge. B.
Aug. 14, 1848. School, Merchant Taylors'.] Matric. Michs. 1868; Scholar, 1870; B.A.
1872; M.A. 1876. Ord. deacon (London, for Colonies) 1871; priest (Madras)
1873. Missionary (C.M.S.) in Madras, 1871-3. C. of Chesham, Bucks.,
1873-5. C. of Hungerford, Berks., 1875-9. C. of St George's, Campden Hill,
Middlesex, 1879-80. C. of E. Shefford, Berks., 1880. Sec., dio. Pretoria, S.
Africa, 1880-2. Org. Sec., Church Defence Inst., 1882-5. C. of St Clement's,
E. Dulwich, Surrey, 1883-5; V. there, 1885-1936. St Antholin (Wednesday)
Lecturer at St Mary Aldermary, London, 1890-1936. Preb. of Truro, 1936-9.
F.Z.S., 1931.
‘In politics, a liberal Conservative; in
party-theology, an Anglo-Catholic;–who owes in both capacities an immense amount to Cambridge.’ Married, Feb.
1, 1872, Agnes Mary, dau. of James Jeken, Esq., of Martin-by-Dover. Latterly
of Chapel House, Ospringe, Faversham, Kent, where he died Jan. 26, 1939.
Father of Charles (1900); brother of William H. M. (1875) and Courtenay B.
(1881). (H. E. Jennings (letter dated Aug. 1936); Crockford; The Times, Jan.
28, 1939.)
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CORPUS CHRISTI
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Michs. 1875
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26 Sep 1856
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18 Mar 1881
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Adm. pens. at CORPUS CHRISTI, Oct. 4,
1875. Of Southampton. [3rd s. of the Rev. Peter Harnett (1839), R. of
Longfield, Kent. B. Sept. 26, 1856.] Bapt. Nov. 14, 1856, at All Saints',
Southampton. Schools, Norwich and Rochester Grammar. Matric. Michs. 1875; Scholar, 1877; B.A.
1879. Mathematical master at Bath Grammar School, 1880-1. Died there Mar. 18,
1881. Brother of Harnett E. (1868) and Courtenay B. (1881). (H. E. Jennings; Rochester Sch. Re
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Excerpt from the UK papers:
The Rev. Harnett Ellison Jennings, vicar of St Clement’s
East Dulwich, S.E. has astonished medical science. As a young man he was told
by doctors that he could not live to be more than twenty-five.
Now eighty three years old, he has been the vicar of the
same church for forty nine years, and celebrates his diamond wedding today. “I
returned from India, where I was doing missionary work when I was young”, he
said, I was a physical wreck and all the doctors I saw despaired of my
life. But my wife pulled me though and today we have children living in
Europe, Asia, Africa and America.
His
son Charles was a Captain in 7th Batn Leiscester Regiment in WW1 and
taken prisoner. He retired from the war as a Major. He became an instructor
at the Royal Military College and later Head master of Avisford Roman Catholic
Prep School Arundel in Sussex. He died 1879 in West Sussex
Charles
Jennings also went to Cambridge
Charles.
Jennings
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College:
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PEMBROKE
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Entered:
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Michs. 1900
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Born:
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10 Jul 1881
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Adm. at PEMBROKE, Oct. 1900. 2nd s. of
the Rev. H. [Harnett] Ellison (1868), V. of St Clement's, Dulwich. B. July
10, 1881, at West Dulwich. School, Lancing. Matric. Michs. 1900; B.A. 1903; M.A. 1931. A
private tutor, 1905-14. Assistant Master at Wells House School, Malvern
Wells. Served in the Great War, 1914-19 (Capt., 7th Batt., Leics. Regt., and
Gen. List, 25th Div.; prisoner of war). Instructor, R.M.C., 1925-7; retired
as Major. Head Master of Avisford Roman Catholic prep. school at Arundel,
Sussex, 1928-45-. (Rev. H. E. Jennings; Lancing
Coll. Reg.; Pembroke Coll. Reg.; Schoolmasters' Directories; Univ. War List;
The Catholic Who's Who.)
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He
had a son Michael Jennings who was awarded the Military Cross in WW2.
He was awarded his Masters of Arts in 1875
Obituary from The Times Jan 28
2003
From The Times January
28, 2003 Michael Jennings Tank commander whose exemplary bravery aided a
successful raid to liberate a Dutch village MICHAEL JENNINGS was awarded the
Military Cross as a young tank troop commander for exceptional bravery during
the clearance of German forces from southeast Holland in the autumn of 1944. In
the afternoon of October 17, two squadrons of the 15th/19th King’s Royal
Hussars were supporting 159 Infantry Brigade in an attempt to break through
German positions east of Eindhoven in an advance to the Maas Canal. The
squadron, in which Jennings commanded a troop of four tanks, and 1st Battalion,
The Hereford Regiment, were ordered to take the village of Ijsselstein lying on
the brigade axis. The flat, boggy countryside, criss-crossed by dykes and
canals, offered no cover for either tanks or infantrymen as they moved up the
road. In this ideal defensive situation, the enemy had the approaches covered
with dug-in 88mm and 75mm anti-tank guns, while the mined and waterlogged
terrain made it impossible to deploy off the road. Despite these seemingly
insurmountable tactical difficulties, Jennings led his troop down the road to
Ijsselstein. After half a mile, his Cromwell tank was hit and the driver
wounded. Changing into a second tank, he continued under heavy shellfire until
this also received a direct hit. One member of his crew was killed, and
Jennings suffered burns to his face and hands. Nonetheless, he continued to
lead the attack until his tank was set ablaze. He ordered the crew out, but
realising the driver was not with them, he returned only to find him dead.
Under close and accurate machinegun fire, he applied dressings to the wounds of
the two remaining crew who had taken cover in the ditch. The citation for his
Mc emphasised that his example was largely responsible for the attack on
Ijsselstein being pressed home.
Michael Jennings was born in Cairo, where his father,
Major Charles Jennings, was serving. When the family moved to England, he was
educated at Ampleforth and Pembroke College, Cambridge, until the outbreak of
war. The injuries he sustained at Ijsselstein resulted in 18 months of
extensive plastic surgery at the hands of the pioneering English surgeon Percy
Jayes. On his return to Cambridge he took his degree in history and in 1948
began teaching at Avisford, his father’s Roman Catholic preparatory school near
Arundel. Later he and his wife Mariella Woodthorpe, the painter, gradually
built it up into one of the best-known Roman Catholic preparatory schools in
the country. Avisford closed its doors in 1974 when Jennings became Headmaster
of Downside’s junior school, Plunkett House. Jennings retired from teaching
when he was 74 but remained active in the British Legion and Amnesty
International. He also enjoyed translating French poetry, in particular La
Fontaine and José-María de Heredia. He is survived by his wife, whom he married
in 1952, eight sons and three daughters.
Michael
Jennings, MC, soldier and schoolmaster, was born on December 2, 1920. He died
on December 27, 2002, aged 82.
He
was a Major in the Army according to his mother's will. She left an
estate of £10,000. A lot of money in 1941
He
arrived back in England aboard the Kenilworth Castle, in September 1909 from
working in Pretoria
2. Katherine Bessie Jennings b 1849 in Tadcaster and died in 1905 unmarried.
In 1861, Katherine was at the St Mary’s
Hall School Brighton
Revd. Henry Venn Elliott had visited the clergy daughter
school in Casterton (which was attended by all Bronte sisters and was the
inspiration for Jane Eyre) founded in 1832 by the Revd. Carus Wilson and was
keen that there should be "a similar institution in the South". The
pupils were "destined to be governesses" and Henry Venn Elliott
considered Brighton as the place to build the school as the Prince Regent had
made it a very popular place to live, and there would be many wealthy families
looking for a Governess. The therapeutic qualities of the sea air appear also
to have been a factor. (Those of us who boarded at St Hilary House remember the
qualities very well, especially in the winter term!)
Looking back to the earliest register of pupils and their
post-school destinations, it does not appear to have proved a particularly
useful source of employment but Henry Venn Elliott was obviously a very
practical man and not short of influence and powers of persuasion.
The Marquis of Bristol, who had property in Kemp Town, gave
£500 for land on which the school was built. Henry Venn
Elliott persuaded George Basevi (the very well-known architect of the
Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge) to provide plans for "The Hall" free
of charge, and collected some very influential supporters with money to
contribute - Queen Adelaide was one. (Adelaide House).
Henry Venn Elliott was vicar of St. Mary's Church in
Brighton - hence the name of the school - and the girls attended the services
there. Some years later (1850/60s?) the Earl of Bristol decided to build a
Church for the school in the same grounds and reading between the lines of the
reports at that time, the Revd. Henry Venn Elliott was not best pleased and
stipulated that the girls would continue to attend St. Mary's in his lifetime.
Subscriptions for the new Church building were somewhat slow in coming and "the Earl of Bristol had to pay for the glazing himself".
Subscriptions for the new Church building were somewhat slow in coming and "the Earl of Bristol had to pay for the glazing himself".
The early reports include a prospectus and clothes list
which are historically interesting. The clothes list states that "Every
girl will bring with her a Bible and a Prayer Book, a new umbrella...."
and a variety of petticoats (cotton, stuff, flannel); and "a silver knife
spoon and fork which will be returned " ."Frocks, tippets and shawls
will be provided by the Hall". (More intimate garments in the form of
"6 pairs of drawers" appear somewhere around 1860s/70s). A laundry
list of the 1880s/90s also proved interesting. (Later boarders recall the
restrictions on "mufti" including as late as 1970 NO trousers -
amended at around that time to be interpreted as NO jeans, but "smart
trousers permitted except on Sundays).
The annual accounts have a simplicity that many schools
would envy to-day. The Lady Principal was paid £100p.a. (quite a princely sum
then) and the six "governesses" a total of £150. "Butchers'
meat" was nearly the same as the sum total for the Governesses and
"Hair-cutting, coal and candles" all came under the same heading.
Beer was also quite an item - presumably because the water was not fit for
drinking.
Educationally the school was very far advanced and the
school taught a great deal more than the usual "accomplishments" of
that era. They took the training of a Governess very seriously indeed. The
pupils arrived about the age of eight and became pupil-teachers somewhere in
their mid-teens staying on until they were considered "qualified". We
believe that the school was also one of the earliest schools who took the
Cambridge Public Examinations in the 1870s - certainly the breadth of the
curriculum including sciences, was unusual for girls at that time.
3. Ellen Jennings was the second daughter of
Peter Harnett Jennings.
She was born in 1850, in Sheffield. At the time of
her mother’s death, in 1861, she was living with her grandparents at St
Martin’s Street Dover.
Between 1861 and her marriage in 1881, there are no records
to be found of Ellen at all. Her two sisters went to the St Mary’s Hall
school in Brighton.
Ellen went to China with Rev Elston, as a governess for his
children.
What a brave lady, travelling to such a remote part of the
World.
She met and married Rev James Henry Sedgwick and she died
at or around the time of the birth of her son.
He remarried in 1903. Ellen was buried in China, and
unfortunately all the headstones and the cemetery were destroyed. A photo
is in the Sedgwick files.
4. Charles Pollexfen Jennings
He was
born 1852 in Southampton, and died in tragic circumstances in 1873.
Charles had been serving on the SS Wolverene in Africa and
had been invalided home. He was walking with his brother Harnett Jennings
beside the wharf at Dover, and he decided to go for a swim. Unfortunately
he drowned. The following article regarding the accident and the coroners
inquest, appeared in the newspapers
5. Ada Mary Geraldine Jennings
Ada was born in 1854 in Southampton, and died in 1879 in
Dartford borough, Kent
Ada attended school where her father was the headmaster in
Bethnel Green in 1861, and then at St Mary’s Hall Brighton in 1871
.Ada died in 1879 aged 25.
6. William Henry Mudge Jennings
William was born in 1856 and christened at All Saints
Southampton. In 1861 he was attending the Bethnel Green School where his
father was the principal. In 1871 he was at Hartley Kent.
In 1875 he attended the Norwich and Rochester Grammar
Schools and he matriculated with a BA in 1879.
He was the mathematical master at the Bath Grammar School
from 1880 – 1881.
He died in 1881. From the letters in the Birmingham
Library Archives, it seems that he died of consumption.
William Henry Mudge. Jennings
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Adm. pens. at CORPUS CHRISTI, Oct. 4,
1875. Of Southampton. [3rd s. of the Rev. Peter Harnett (1839), R. of
Longfield, Kent. B. Sept. 26, 1856.] Bapt. Nov. 14, 1856, at All Saints',
Southampton. Schools, Norwich and Rochester Grammar. Matric. Michs. 1875; Scholar, 1877; B.A.
1879. Mathematical master at Bath Grammar School, 1880-1. Died there Mar. 18,
1881. Brother of Harnett E. (1868) and Courtenay B. (1881). (H. E. Jennings; Rochester Sch. Reg.)
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7. COURTENAY BALDERSTON JENNINGS
His mother died around the time of his birth, and at the
age of 3 months he has being cared for by Mr and Mrs. Langley at 5 Buckland
Street Buckland. Mr John Langley was a cleric at St Andrews Church
Buckland.
He was back living with his father and family by
1871. He also went to Cambridge.
Courtenay Balderston. Jennings
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Adm. pens. at CORPUS CHRISTI, Oct. 1,
1881. Of London. [4th s. of the Rev. Peter Harnett (1839) and Elizabeth (née Mudge). B. Dec. 28, 1860, at
Cambridge Heath, London, N.E. School, King's, Rochester (scholar).] Matric. Michs. 1881; B.A. 1884; M.A. 1900.
Ord. deacon (Norwich) 1885; priest (Carlisle) 1886; C. of Wetheringsett,
Suffolk, 1885-6. C. of St George's, Millom, Cumb., 1886-7. C. of Crayford,
Kent, 1888-9. V. of Hose, Leics., 1889-1901. Chaplain at Madeira, 1901-2. C.
of Castor, Northants., 1902-7. V. of Foxton, Cambs., 1907-12. V. of Bozeat
and R. of Strixton, Northants., 1912-22. R. of Paglesham, Essex, 1922-46. Of
Halstead, Essex, in 1947. (King's Sch., Rochester, Reg.; Crockford.)
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In 1885 he was ordained a deacon at Norwich, then priest at
Carlisle in 1886. Church of Crayford, Kent 1888 – 9, Vicar of Hose
Leicestershire 1889 – 1901.
In 1901 – 2 He was the Chaplain at Madeira, and
in 1902 – 7 Cleric of Castor,
Northamptonshire.
In 1902 – 1907 he was the Vicar of Foxton, Cambridgeshire
Then 1907 – 1912 the Vicar of Bozeat
and Rector of Strixton Northanthampshire 1912 -1922
Rector of Paglesham, Essex 1922 –
1946
Officer of Halstead Essex in
1947
In 1891 he married Emma Garmeson.
They had four children
Ada Mary
Jennings
1892
Edward Courtenay
Jennings
1894 d 1974
Kathleen Elizabeth
Jennings
1896
William Lukes Jennings
1899 – 1977
He died 27th December
1954 and is buried at St Peters Anglican Church Paglesham Essex
John Hartnett Jennings. Some facts of his life.
3 Apr 1881 • 11 Maison Dieu Road, Dover, Kent,
England Relation to Head of
House: Grandson; Age: 8; Scholar
5 Apr 1891 • 137 Barry Road, Camberwell, London,
England Relation to Head of
House: Son; Age: 18; Scholar
20 Oct 1891 • Keble, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England Matriculation; Age: 18; from Dulwich
College
2 Apr 1911 • St Clements Parsonage, 137 Barry Road,
Camberwell, London SE, England
Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son;
Age: 38; Clerk in Holy orders, Curate of St Clement, East Dulwich
1921-1923 • 137 Barry Road, Camberwell, London
SE22, England
1927 • Vicarage, Hooton Pagnell, Doncaster,
Yorkshire, England
Death 28 Feb
1929 • Doncaster, Yorkshire West Riding,
England
JENNINGS the reverend John Harnett of the Vicarage Hooton
Pagnall Doncaster clerk died 28 February 1929 Probate London 2 May to Katharine
Mary Jennings spinster. Effects £1579 7s. 8d.
Since being involved with researching the family history,
one thing that really annoys me (stronger words would describe this), is the
rubbish that people, unknown to the family, and unknown to the full facts, end
up writing about certain people.
This time it is regarding John Harnett Jennings, a
cousin. Now this piece might have some truth, but it also seems to have a
lot of damming information.
Wet nursed and punkawallered through Dulwich!
Reverend
John Harnett Jennings
Odds are, he was a bastard of the very worst sort: a
youngest-son, silver-spoon, spoilt child of Empire, wet-nursed and
punkawallered through Dulwich and Keble Colleges, then steamered back to
Palamcotta, the city of his birth, a missionary clerk with twin shiny-eyed
ambitions: bettering sambo and servanted ease.
Lady Julia gave him refuge from his vapour-fit
burn-out, worn down by the heathen of the Tamil Nadoo; idolatrous Hindoos,
fanatical Mohammedans, and those monkeys in suit-coats, the Indian
National Congress, their Anti-Christ dream of poorna
swaraj. All Saints at Hooton, a sinecure with a stipend: Sunday service,
weddings and funerals, tiffin with her Ladyship and the Primrose League.
At midnight there was a cry made. Behold, the
bridegroom cometh. They buried you in the overspill cemetery, by Lady Julia’s
bishop-blessed lych-gate. Perhaps you designed your who’s-who gravestone, white
marble with hammered-lead lettering, marking you apart from the lock-jawed
gritstones standing mute in crass West Riding earth. That’s where I found you,
pale and fading, on your exile’s grave.
Peacocks calling from the croquet lawn; wallahs
fetching cake and manzanilla; home from home. Reverend Jennings, forgive my maybe slanderous fancy:
odds are, you were a decent man; a saint, a scholar, hale-cleric-well-met.
Whatever you were, now cold in our clays, your life belongs to me.
Steve Ely‘s book of
poems Oswald’s Book of Hours is published by Smokestack and
has been nominated for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.
STEVE: Quite a few people
have commented on the male world of these two books and gently implied that
there may be misogyny at work. I’ve just had a quick trawl through Oswald’s
Book of Hours and noted (in addition to Our Lady and the various female
lurchers and long dogs) ‘affectionate or respectful’ references to Mary Tudor
& Elizabeth Barton (‘Obsecro te’ & ‘O intemerata’), the un-named
Flemish girl in ‘Beati, quorum remissae’, my daughter in the first poem of
‘Hours of the Dead’, Mary Magdalen in the poem of that name in ‘Memorials of
the Saints’ and Margaret of Kirkeby in ‘Richard Rolle’. A similar trawl through
Englaland reveals ‘affectionate or respectful’ references to ‘a girl’ in poem
‘X’ of ‘The Battle of Brunanburh’; ‘domestics and milkmaids’ in poem ‘XXI’;
there are ‘affectionate’ if not ‘respectful’ references to women (and men) in
‘Eight Miles Out’;
Lady Julia Warde-Aldam turns up in
‘Reverend John Harnett Jennings'; there are incidental but ‘respectful’
references to women in ‘The Field Church, Frickley’; ‘the booze-loosened
lasses’ of ‘Big Billy’ are portrayed ‘affectionately’ and, I think
‘respectfully’; ‘Krakumal’ is Ragnar’s death-bed paean to his wife, Aslaug
(Kraka); several women are mentioned in ‘Irish Blood, English Heart’ and ‘Mrs
Duffy’ gets a poem to herself. So maybe there are more ‘positive’ or at least
‘neutral’ references to women than you think.
The specific reference you make to possible casual misogyny (in ‘A Lytle Gest of John Nevison’), in which the narrator uses the term ‘bitch’ in lieu of ‘woman’, may actually be compounded by his subsequent reference to the innkeeper’s adulterous wife as a ‘whore’.
The specific reference you make to possible casual misogyny (in ‘A Lytle Gest of John Nevison’), in which the narrator uses the term ‘bitch’ in lieu of ‘woman’, may actually be compounded by his subsequent reference to the innkeeper’s adulterous wife as a ‘whore’.
However, the narrator of ‘A Lytle Gest of
John Nevison’ is a working-class raconteur of a certain type, an outlaw and
provocateur himself , hymning his hero’s deviance in a deliberately scandalous
way, variously praising his hero’s fecklessness, his penchant for armed robbery
and running protection rackets, his contempt for the rich, his treachery,
womanising and reckless cunning. The poem ends with the narrator himself
threatening the audience. The narrator’s possible misogyny is part of a range
of disreputable attitudes he owns.
The most convincing and engaging movements are those in
which the personal is conjured – even if, in some cases, this personal slant is
an invented one. In ‘Reverend John Harnett Jennings’ Ely draws an intriguing
portrait of the Victorian missionary, only to lampoon it in the final stanza:
‘…Reverend Jennings, forgive me my maybe slanderous fancy:
odds are, you were a decent man; a saint, scholar, hale-cleric-well-met.
Whatever you were, cold in your clays – your life belongs to me.’
For all Ely’s evident love of history, he is not afraid to
trample it – to impose himself, as we all must, in order to understand it, and
to spellbinding effect.
The Primrose League was an organisation for spreading Conservative
principles in Great Britain. It was founded in 1883 and active until the
mid-1990s. It was finally wound up in December 2004.
Sir Winston Churchill, in his book on his father, Lord Randolph Churchill published in 1906, stated that, the
Primrose League had one million paid up members "determined to promote the
cause of Toryism"
Membership of the League was "well over a million by the early
1890s" and at that time enjoyed more support than the British trade union movement.
6,000 people were members of the League in Bolton in 1900, as large as the national
membership of the Independent Labour Party during the same time. However by 1912
the League's membership had fallen to just over 650,000 as other leagues
emerged, such as the Tariff Reform League and the Budget Protest League.
With the granting of universal suffrage after the First World War,
the Conservative Party leadership decided "A mass membership now seemed a
necessary object if the Conservatives were to be on an equal footing with the
mass battalions of the trade unions", and so with the scaling up of party
membership the need for ancillary support from organisations such as the
Primrose League diminished, particularly as a conduit of female support who had
now gained the vote and could be full members of the Conservative Party.
Activities
Members were expected to actively support the league, and to keep up
interest a programme of social events was organised for the membership "of
which the Primrose summer fête, often held in the grounds of stately homes
opened for the first time for this purpose, provided the grand annual climax".
That the events the members would often be addressed by, and have the
opportunity to meet members of the Parliamentary Conservative Party
Prior to World War II,
the League was still able to pack the Royal Albert
Hall for its annual
Grand Habitation. It continued its activities after the war and celebrated its
centenary in 1983 with its usual round of social and political events.
The League's Gazette carried articles by leading
politicians of the day, even Margaret
Thatcher (September/October
1977), but following the resignation of its industrious secretary of 45 years,
Evelyn Hawley, C.B.E., at the end of 1988, it went into terminal decline.