Soame jenyns biography of william

​JENYNS, SOAME (1704–1787), miscellaneous writer, son of Sir Roger Jenyns, kt., of Bottisham Hall, near Cambridge, was born in London on 1 Jan.

1704. His mother was a daughter of Sir Peter Soame, bart., of Haydon, Essex.

Soame jenyns biography of william

1. Add. 5873, f. 51; Owen, Pelhams, 217.

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2. Philip Yorke to Hardwicke, 4 Aug. 1747, Hardwicke to P. Yorke, 30 June 1753, Add. 35351, ff. 124, 288; Walpole, Mems. Geo. II, ii. 140.

3.Add. 33038, f. 415.

In 1722 he was entered at St. John's College, Cambridge, as a fellow-commoner, and he left the university without a degree in 1725. His first publication was ‘The Art of Dancing: a Poem,’ issued anonymously in 1727, with a dedication to Lady Fanny Fielding.

It was followed in 1735 by ‘An Epistle to Lord Lovelace’ (verse); and in 1752 appeared a collection of Jenyns's ‘Poems,’ chiefly reprinted from ‘Dodsley's Miscellany.’ At the general election in 1742 he was chosen one of the members for the ​the county of Cambridge, and he continued to represent the county or borough of Cambridge until 1780 (except at the call of a new parliament in 1754, when he was returned for Dunwich).

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