Richard Jenkins (MP)

Sir Richard Jenkins GCB JP DL FRS (18 February 1785 – 30 December 1853) was Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury from 1830 to 1832 and from 1837 to 1841. He was also Chairman of the East India Company in 1839.[1]

Personal life

Richard Jenkins was born at Cruckton, near Shrewsbury, the eldest son of Richard Jenkins of Bicton Hall, Shropshire.[2] He married Elizabeth Helen, daughter of Hugh Spottiswoode, of the Honourable East India Company Civil Service, and was the father of Colonel Richard Jenkins of the 1st Bengal Cavalry.[3][4]

Career

Jenkins was at the Battle of Seetabuldee and also the capture of Nagpore. He served in the Bombay Civil Service from 1800 to 1828 and was the British Resident at Nagpur from 1807 to 1827. He was East India Company Director from 1832 to 1853.

Honours

Sir Richard was invested as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) in 1838,[5] and awarded the Third Mahratta War medal.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and, in 1841, a Fellow of the Royal Society,[6] for which his candidature citation read that he was a deserving applicant for his "Eminence as a Political Character in India; for his acquaintance with Oriental Literature; for his variable reports to the Government of India; & for his administration of the affairs of Berar" [7]

References

  1. ↑ "JENKINS, Richard (1785-1853)". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  2. ↑  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Jenkins, Richard". Dictionary of National Biography. 29. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. ↑ Grave at Rawalpindi
  4. ↑ Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Anne of Exeter Volume ..., Volume 2
  5. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 19638. p. 1660. 20 July 1838.
  6. ↑ "Library and Archive catalogue". royal Society. Retrieved 2012-03-06.
  7. ↑ "Library and Archive catalogue". royal Society. Retrieved 2012-03-06.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Panton Corbett
Robert Aglionby Slaney		 Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury
1830–1832
With: Robert Aglionby Slaney		 Succeeded by
Robert Aglionby Slaney
Sir John Hanmer
Preceded by
John Cressett-Pelham
Sir John Hanmer		 Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury
1837–1841
With: Robert Aglionby Slaney		 Succeeded by
George Tomline
Benjamin Disraeli


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