Jenyns, Leonard, 1800-1893

LC control no.	no 97061022
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Jenyns, Leonard, 1800-1893 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Blomefield, Leonard, 1800-1893
Associated country	England
Birth date	1800-05-25
Death date	1893-09-01
Place of birth	London (England)
Place of death	Bath (England)
Affiliation	Church of England
Profession or occupation	Naturalists Clergy
Found in	Observations in meteorology, 1858: t.p. (Rev. Leonard Jenyns) The Bath flora, 1867: t.p. (The Rev. Leonard Jenyns, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., &c.) OCLC, 10/17/97 (hdg.: Jenyns, Leonard, 1800-1893; variant: Blomefield, Leonard, 1800-1893; usage: Leonard Jenyns, Leonard Blomefield (late Jenyns) Oxford Dictionary of national biography WWW site, 9 Aug., 2017 (Blomefield (formerly Jenyns), Leonard, naturalist, was born on 25 May 1800 at 85 Pall Mall, London; In 1823 Jenyns was ordained deacon; and next year was ordained priest in Christ's College; After ordination he entered parish work immediately as curate of Swaffham Bulbeck; In 1832 Jenyns joined the British Association for the Advancement of Science; On his wife's death in 1860 he settled finally in Bath; He was the founder (18 February 1855) and first president of the Bath Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club; elected a member of the Linnean Society in November 1822, and in the same year was elected into the Cambridge Philosophical Society; He was an original member of the Zoological (1826), Entomological (1834), and Ray (1844) societies; In 1871, through Jenyns's connection with the Chappelow family (he was the great-grandson of Edward Chappelow of Diss and his wife, Elizabeth, the sister of Francis Blomefield, the historian of Norfolk) a considerable property worth some £7000 devolved on him, on the condition he adopted the name of Blomefield; He died at his home, 19 Belmont, Bath, on 1 September 1893, aged ninety-three) <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2664>
Associated language	eng