Soame Jenyns (Q387537)
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* 1704, + 1787-12-18, British writer
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Soame Jenyns |
* 1704, + 1787-12-18, British writer |
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1 January 1704Gregorian
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18 December 1787Gregorian
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Education: privately tutored until age 17, entered St John's College, Cambridge, as a fellow commoner in 1722 and matriculated in 1724, left 1725 w/o a degree
Career: married heiress Mary Soame 1726 until she left him in 1742, succeeded his father as the squire of Bottisham in 1740, remarried to his cousin, Elizabeth Gray 1754, Whig politician -- elected to represent Cambridgeshire in 1741 as the preferred candidate of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke, returned in 1747, removed 1753, compensated with £600 (until 1755) and provided with a safe seat purchased for him in the rotten borough of Dunwich, appointed one of the lords commissioners of trade and plantations, re-elected to parliament 5 more times
Periodicals etc.: Robert Dodsley's Collection of Poems. By Several Hands (1748), published five essays in the World in 1755, ‘Epitaph on Johnson’ published in GM 1783
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