See also:SIR LEOLINE See also:JENKINS (1623-1685)
, See also:English lawyer and diplomatist, was the son of a Welsh See also:country See also:gentleman
.
He was See also:born in 1623 and was educated at Jesus See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, of which he was elected a See also:fellow at the Restoration in 166o, having been an ardent royalist during the See also:civil See also:war and See also:commonwealth; and in 1661 he became See also:head of the college
.
In the same See also:year he was made registrar of the See also:consistory See also:court of See also:Westminster; in 1664 See also:deputy See also:judge of the court of See also:arches; about a year later judge of the See also:admiralty court; in 1689 judge of the See also:prerogative court of See also:Canterbury
.
In these offices See also:Jenkins did enduring See also:work in elucidating and establishing legal principles, especially in relation to See also:international See also:law and admiralty See also:jurisdiction
.
He was selected to draw up the claim of See also:Charles II. to succeed to the See also:property of his See also:mother, Henrietta Maria, on her See also:death in See also:August 1666, and while in See also:Paris for this purpose he succeeded in defeating the See also:rival claim of the duchess of See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans, being rewarded by a See also:knighthood on his return
.
In 1673, on being elected member for See also:Hythe, Jenkins resigned the headship of Jesus College
.
He was one of the English representatives at the See also:congress of See also:Cologne in 1673, and
at the more important congress of See also:Nijmwegen in 1676
1679
.
He was made a privy councillor in See also:February 168o and
became secretary of See also:state in See also:April of the same year, in which See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office he was the See also:official See also:leader of the opposition to the Exclusion
See also:Bill, thodgh he was by no means a pliant See also:tool in the hands of the court
.
He resigned office in 1684, and died on the 1st of See also:September 1685
.
He See also:left most of his property to Jesus College, Oxford, including his books, which he bequeathed to the college library, built by himself; and he left some important See also:manuscripts to All Souls College, where they are preserved
.
Jenkins left his impress on the law of See also:England in the See also:Statute of Frauds, and the Statute of Distributions, of which he was the See also:principal author, and of which the former profoundly affected the See also:mercantile law of the country, while the latter regulated the See also:inheritance of the See also:personal property of intestates
.
He was never married
.
See See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Wynne, See also:Life of See also:Sir Leoline Jenkins (2 vols., See also:London, 1724), which contains a number of his See also:diplomatic despatches, letters, speeches and other papers
.
See also Sir William See also:Temple, See also:Works, vol. ii
.
(4 vols., 1770) ; See also:Anthony a See also:Wood, Athenae Oxonienses (See also:Fasti) edited by P
.
See also:Bliss (4 vols., London, 1813-1820), and See also:History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford, edited by J
.
Gutch (Oxford, 1792-1796)
.
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