Observer_, _Dec. 1849 pp._ 809–56, _Oct. 1850 pp._ 698–713.
JENNINGS, GEORGE (eld. son of Joseph Jennings _d._ 1824). _b._
in a village on the borders of the New Forest 10 Nov. 1810;
in employment of Burton, plumbers, Newcastle st. London 1831,
in business Parliament st. 1834, in Charlotte st. Blackfriars
road 1838; introduced indiarubber tube taps 1847; conducted
the sanitary works in Great exhibition of 1851, in Crystal
palace, Sydenham 1852–4, in Great exhibition 1862, and in
Dublin exhibition 1865; invented improved shutter fastener;
put up sanitary fittings in hospitals at Varna and Scutari
1854; purchased clay beds at Parkstone, Dorset where he erected
pottery works and made stoneware and terra-cotta goods; removed
to Holland st. Blackfriars 1857, afterwards to Palace wharf,
Stangate, his works burnt down 22 March 1865; constructed water
works for Wilton; used india rubber for valves, endless elastic
bands and for hermetically sealing capsules; conducted sanitary
works in Paris exhibition 1867, drainage works, etc. in Vienna
exhibition 1873, and Centennial exhibition, Philadelphia 1876;
heated and ventilated buildings on a new principle; thrown
out of a gig 13 April and _d._ from his injuries Ferndale,
Nightingale lane, Clapham 17 April 1882. _The Builder_, _xlii_
497, 530 (1882).
JENNINGS, HARGRAVE. _b._ about 1817; sec. to James Henry
Mapleson manager of the royal Italian opera, many years; said
to be the original of Ezra Jennings in Wilkie Collins’s novel
The Moonstone 1868; author of My marine memorandum book 3 vols.
1845; The ship of glass or the mysterious island 3 vols. 1846;
St. George, a romance 1853; Curious things of the outside world
2 vols. 1861; The Rosicrucians, their rites and mysteries 1870,
3 ed. 2 vols. 1887; One of the Thirty 1873, a story of Judas and
the 30 pieces of silver; The Indian religions 1858, 2 ed. 1890;
Phallicism, celestial and terrestrial 2 vols. 1884. _d._ at
residence of his brother Edward Lawrence Jennings, Ambassador’s
Court, St. James’s palace, London 11 March 1890. _Times 14 March
1890 p._ 9.
JENNINGS, JOHN. _b._ 14 Sep. 1789; hon. secretary of the Star
club, London 1831–39; R. of St. John the Evangelist, Westminster
1832 to death; canon residentiary of Westminster 9 Jany. 1837 to
death; archdeacon of Westminster, Jany. 1869 to death, sub-dean
1881 to death; the sole surviving priest who officiated at
coronation of Victoria 1838. _d._ Dean’s yard, Westminster 26
March 1883. _bur._ Lyne church near Chertsey 3 April. _I.L.N.
xxvi_ 268 (1855) _portrait_, _lxxxii_ 332 (1883), _portrait_.
JENNISON, JOHN. _b._ 1789; a handloom weaver, Stockport;
established Jennison’s Gardens, Stockport 1829; originated the
Belle Vue gardens, Manchester 1836, which became the favourite
resort of pleasure seekers of Lancashire and surrounding
counties; his first great picture The siege of Algiers produced