▶Date of birth:  22 October 1856        Place of birth: Loughton, Essex

▶Father: Edward Fox Jennings      Mother: Marion Jane Maria Ash

▶Spouse(s):  -     Date(s) of marriage:       Place(s) of marriage:

▶Occupation: Clergyman

▶Lifestory: In 1861 Jennings lived with his parents in Sutton and then in 1871 in Brentwood, Essex. He matriculated at Worcester College, Oxford in 1875, and gained his BA in 1878 (MA 1883). After this he trained at Cuddesdon Theological College, near Oxford, and in 1884 was appointed Curate of St Luke’s Church, in Torquay. In 1885 he was ordained Priest (Exeter), and was then appointed Vicar of the New Church, at Up Hatherley 1886-90, before accepting the office of Vicar of St Stephen’s, Cheltenham in 1890. He remained there until 1915, when he exchanged livings to become Rector of Whittington, a preferment he held until he resigned in 1923. He was an Honorary Canon of Gloucester from 1912 and Rural Dean of Cheltenham 1915-17.

Jennings’s main interest outside the Church was music and he regularly attended local concerts in Cheltenham. He lived in retirement at 5 Wellington Square in Pittville 1924-40, where he died, unmarried, at the age of eighty-four, in 1940. His funeral service was held at St Stephen’s, Cheltenham.

▶Moved to Pittville from:  Whittington, Gloucestershire      Moved from Pittville to: [died]

▶Date of death: 8 November 1940       Place of death: 5 Wellington Square, Pittville

▶Date of burial:         Place of burial:

▶Notes:        ID: 13375

Contributor(s):  Alan Munden/John Simpson