{{Short description|British politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}} {{Use British English|date=March 2018}} thumb|Bayfield Hall, Norfolk '''Henry Jodrell''' (bapt. 30 May 1750<ref>''London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812''</ref> – 11 March 1814) was an English barrister and politician who served as a Member of Parliament.
He was a younger son of Paul Jodrell of Duffield, Derbyshire, the Solicitor-General to Frederick, Prince of Wales, and his wife, Elizabeth.<ref>Edmund Farrer, ''The Church Heraldry of Norfolk'', vol. 2, 1889, p. 391</ref> Richard Paul Jodrell, (1745 – 1831), classical scholar and playwright, and Sir Paul Jodrell (died 1803), physician to the Nabob of Arcot, were his elder brothers.<ref>John Nichols, ''Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century'', vol. 9, 1815, p. 3</ref> He was educated at Eton school and Lincoln's Inn, where he was called to the bar in 1773, and inherited Bayfield Hall, near the north Norfolk coast, from his mother.
He was Commissioner of Bankrupts 1783-97 and the Recorder of Great Yarmouth 1792–1813. He resigned the recordership in 1813 to avoid having to pass the death sentence on his wife's murderer.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/jodrell-henry-1750-1814|title=JODRELL, Henry (?1750-1814), of Bayfield Hall, Norf.|publisher=History of Parliament|accessdate=24 December 2017}}</ref>
He was MP for Great Yarmouth from 1796 to 1802, and MP for Bramber, Sussex from 1802 to 1812.
He is buried in Letheringsett with a memorial designed by John Bacon.<ref>Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis</ref>
He married Johanna Elizabeth, daughter of John Weyland of Woodeaton, Oxfordshire. They had no children.
==References== {{reflist}}
{{s-start}} {{s-par|gb}} {{s-bef | before = Stephens Howe<br />Lord Charles Townshend }} {{s-ttl | title = Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth | years = 1796 – 1800 | with = William Loftus }} {{s-aft | after = Parliament of the United Kingdom }} |- {{s-par|uk}} {{s-bef | before = Parliament of Great Britain }} {{s-ttl | title = Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth | years = 1801 – 1802 | with = William Loftus }} {{s-aft | after = Thomas Jervis<br />Sir Thomas Troubridge, Bt }} |- {{s-bef | before = James Adams<br />John Henry Newbolt }} {{s-ttl | title = Member of Parliament for Bramber | years = 1802 – 1812 | with = George Manners-Sutton 1800–02 | with2 = Richard Norman 1802–04 | with3 = John Irving from 1804 }} {{s-aft | after = William Wilberforce<br />John Irving }} {{s-end}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jodrell, Henry}} Category:1750 births Category:1814 deaths Category:People from Duffield Category:People educated at Eton College Category:Members of Lincoln's Inn Category:Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Category:British MPs 1796–1800 Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies Category:UK MPs 1801–1802 Category:UK MPs 1802–1806 Category:UK MPs 1806–1807 Category:UK MPs 1807–1812 Category:Politics of the Borough of Great Yarmouth Category:English barristers Category:Burials in Norfolk