Richard Jenkins (MP)

{{Short description|British businessman and politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=December 2016}} '''Sir Richard Jenkins''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|GCB|JP|DL|FRS}} (18 February 1785 – 30 December 1853) was [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|member of parliament]] for [[Shrewsbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Shrewsbury]] from 1830 to 1832 and from 1837 to 1841. He was also Chairman of the [[East India Company]] in 1839.<ref name=hop>{{cite web|title=JENKINS, Richard (1785-1853)|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/jenkins-richard-1785-1853|website=History of Parliament Online|accessdate=23 August 2016}}</ref>

==Personal life== Richard Jenkins was born at [[Cruckton]], near Shrewsbury, the eldest son of Richard Jenkins of [[Bicton, Shrewsbury|Bicton Hall]], Shropshire.<ref name=dnb>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Jenkins, Richard|volume=29}}</ref> He married Elizabeth Helen, daughter of Hugh Spottiswoode, of the Honourable East India Company Civil Service, in 1824<ref name=hop/> and was the father of Colonel Richard Jenkins of the 1st Bengal Cavalry,<ref>Grave at Rawalpindi</ref><ref>Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Anne of Exeter Volume ..., Volume 2 [https://books.google.com/books?id=0aUD4NqGYqAC&pg=PA235]</ref> two other sons and two daughters.<ref name=hop/>

==Career== Jenkins was at the [[Battle of Seetabuldee]] and also the capture of Nagpur. He served in the [[Bombay Civil Service]] from 1800 to 1828 and was the British Resident at Nagpur from 1807 to 1827. He was an East India Company Director from 1832 to 1853.<ref name=dnb/>

==Honours== Sir Richard was invested as a Knight Grand Cross of the [[Order of the Bath]] (GCB) in 1838,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=19638 |date=20 July 1838 |page=1660}}</ref> and awarded the [[Army of India Medal|Third Mahratta War medal]].

He was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society]] and, in 1841, a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]],<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27jenkins%27%29 |title = Library and Archive catalogue|publisher = royal Society|accessdate= 2012-03-06}}</ref> 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''"<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqSearch=RefNo==%27EC%2F1841%2F09%27&dsqCmd=Show.tcl |title = Library and Archive catalogue|publisher = royal Society|accessdate= 2012-03-06}}</ref>

==Death== Jenkins died at Gothic Cottage, [[Blackheath, London]], in 1853 aged 68 and was buried in Shropshire at Bicton.<ref name=dnb/><ref name=hop/>

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{{s-bef | before = [[John Cressett-Pelham]] | before2 = [[John Hanmer, 1st Baron Hanmer|Sir John Hanmer]] }} {{s-ttl | title = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Shrewsbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Shrewsbury]] | years = 1837–1841 | with = [[Robert Aglionby Slaney]] }} {{s-aft | after = [[George Tomline (politician)|George Tomline]] | after2 = [[Benjamin Disraeli]] }} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}}

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