Henry Jenner

Henry Jenner
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Short Name: Henry Jenner
Full Name: Jenner, Henry, 1848-1934
Birth Year: 1848
Death Year: 1934

Jenner, Henry, son of H. L. Jenner, D.D., sometime Bishop of Dunedin, born in 1848, is the author of one hymn only, “Jesus, Thou hast willed it," which was written in 1870 for the anniversary of the Society for Promoting the Unity of Christendom, and was first sung in procession at St. Michael's, Shoreditch, on “the Octave of Our Lady St. Mary," 1870, to a tune by his father. It is in the Scotch Ch. Hymnary, 1898. [Rev. John Brownlie]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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Henry Jenner FSA (8 August 1848 – 8 May 1934) was a British scholar of the Celtic languages, a Cornish cultural activist, and the chief originator of the Cornish language revival. Jenner was born at St Columb Major on 8 August 1848. He was the son of Henry Lascelles Jenner, who was one of two curates to the Rector of St. Columb Major, and later consecrated though not enthroned as the first Bishop of Dunedin and the grandson of Herbert Jenner-Fust. In 1869 Jenner became a clerk in the Probate Division of the High Court and two years later was nominated by the Primate at Canterbury for a post in the Department of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, his father then being the Rector of Wingham, a small village near Canterbury.
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