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John Lewis Jenkins

John Lewis Jenkins

British imperial administrator

Sir John Lewis Jenkins KB KCSI (22 July, 1857 - 13 January, 1912) was a British administrator in the Imperial Civil Service.

Bust of Sir John Lewis Jenkins at Coronation Park, Delhi.

Biography

He was born the son of James Jenkins of Llangadog, and educated at Wadham College, Oxford.[1]

Jenkins joined the Imperial Civil Service in 1879. He served as Commissioner of Land Revenue and Reporter General of External Commerce in Bombay and later Commissioner of Commerce in Bombay between 1903 and 1906.[2] He served as a Member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay between 1909–10 and held the office of Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India between 1910 and 1912.[3] In 1911 he read the All-India address of welcome to George V at the Delhi Durbar.[4] That same year he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India. He died suddenly in 1912 at the age of 54 following brain trouble.[5][6]

Personal life

He married Florence Mildred Trevor (1870-1956), daughter of Sir Arthur Trevor, on 18 November 1890 in Karāchi, Mahārāshtra, India. Their children were Arthur Lewis Jenkins (1892–1917),[7] Elinor May Jenkins (1893–1920),[8] Sir Evan Meredith Jenkins (1896–1985), Joyce Angharad Jenkins (1897–1983), David Llewelyn Jenkins (1899–1969), John Vaughan Jenkins (1903–1936), Sir Owain Trevor Jenkins (1907–1996).[9]

References

  1. [1]
    Oxford University Gazette. United Kingdom, University of Oxford, 1880.
  2. [2]
    The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. N.p., Dalcassian Publishing Company, 1860.
  3. [3]
    L. G. Pine (1972). The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms. London: Heraldry Today. p. 159.
  4. [4]
    The British World: Diaspora, Culture, and Identity. United Kingdom, F. Cass, 2003.
  5. [5]
    India. United Kingdom, Published for the Proprietors, Indian National Congress, 1912.
  6. [6]
    The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. N.p., Dalcassian Publishing Company, 1860.
  7. [7]
    "Poetry". The Scotsman. 19 September 1918. p. 2.
  8. [8]
    "Death of a poetess". Richmond Herald. 6 March 1920. p. 11.
  9. [9]
    L. G. Pine (1972). The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms. London: Heraldry Today. p. 159.


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