Henry Jenner

Henry Lascelles Jenner, DD (b Chislehurst June 6, 1820 - d Preston-next-Wingham September 18, 1898) was a nineteenth century Anglican bishop. Jenner was educated at Harrow and Trinity Hall, Cambridge; and ordained deacon in 1843 and priest in 1844. After a curacy in Cornwall , he became Rector of Preston-next-Wingham, and died in post. In 1865, however, he was consecrated as the first Bishop of Dunedin, New Zealand, but never took possession of the See despite a visit to the area between 1868 and 1869: this is believed to be due to his Anglo-Catholic leanings. His son was a British scholar of the Celtic languages, a Cornish cultural activist, and the chief originator of the Cornish language revival.