Family and Education
b. c. 1625, s. of Llewellyn Jenkins, yeoman, of Llanblethian, Glam. educ. Cowbridge g.s.; Jesus, Oxf. matric. 4 June 1641, aged 16, DCL 1661; advocate, Doctors’ Commons 1664. unm. Kntd. 7 June 1670.This biography is based on William Wynne, Life (1724).
Offices Held

Fellow of Jesus c. Aug. 1660, principal 1661 – 73; commissary, Bridgnorth peculiar 1661, Canterbury dioc. 1663; dep. prof. of civil law, Oxford Univ. 1662, assessor to chancellor’s court 1662 – 67; j.p. Oxford 1662 – ?73; registrar, Westminster Abbey 1663 – 65; commr. for assessment, Oxon. 1664 – 79, Kent and Glam. 1673 – 80, London 1677 – 80; judge of Admiralty, Cinque Ports ?1667 – d.; freeman, Portsmouth 1682, 1685; master, Salters’ Co. 1684–d.R. East, Portsmouth Recs. 368; J. S. Watson, Hist. Salters’ Co. 146.

Dep. dean of the arches 1665 – d.; judge-asst. court of Admiralty 1665, judge 1668 – 73; judge, prerogative court of Canterbury 1669 – 80; commr. for union with Scotland 1670; plenip. congress of Köln 1673 – 74, Nymwegen 1675 – 79; PC 11 Feb. 1680 – d.; sec. of state (north) 1680 – 81, (south) 1681–4.

Main residences: Jesus College, Oxford; Hammersmith, Mdx.
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Commons 1660-1690
Web Title

JENKINS, Sir Leoline (c.1625-85)

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Oxford 1644
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