Charles Fitzgerald Gambier Jenyns (13 November 1827 – 26 January 1888) was an English first-class

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er and clergyman. The son of The Reverend George Jenyns, he was born in November 1827 at Bottisham Hall in Cambridgeshire. He was educated at

King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds King Edward VI School is a co-educational comprehensive secondary school in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England. The school in its present form was created in 1972 by the merging of King Edward VI Grammar School, with the Silver Jubilee Girls Scho ...

, before going up to

Emmanuel College, Cambridge Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I. The site on which the college sits was once a priory for Dominican mon ...

. While studying at Cambridge, he played first-class cricket for Cambridge University Cricket Club from 1849 to 1850, making five appearances. Jenyns has limited success in his five matches for the university, scoring 88 runs with a highest score of 27. His appearance in The University Match against Oxford in 1849 gained him a cricket blue. He also played one first-class match for a combined Cambridge University and Cambridge Town Club team against an All-England Eleven at Fenner's in 1849, batting once in the match and being dismissed without scoring by William Martingell. After graduating from Cambridge, Jenyns took holy orders in the Anglican Church in 1851, when he was ordained as a deacon at

Ely Cathedral Ely Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, is an Anglican cathedral in the city of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. The cathedral has its origins in AD 672 when St Etheldreda built an abbey church. The presen ...

. His first ecclesiastical post was as curate of

Melbourn Melbourn () is a large, clustered village in the far south-west of Cambridgeshire, England. Its traditional high street is bypassed by the A10, intersecting the settlement's other main axis exactly northwest of the traditional focal point of R ...

in Cambridgeshire from 1851 to 1853, before being appointed reverend there in 1853. He held the reverendship at Melbourn until 1874, after which he was reverend of Knebworth in

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, a post he held until his death there in January 1888. Jenyns was a keen beekeeper, writing a book on the subject in 1886. He was married twice in his life; firstly to Fanny in 1853, and his secondly to Emily Rose Lytton, in 1856. His maternal grandfather was the diplomat Sir James Gambier, while his paternal grandfather was the priest and landowner

George Leonard Jenyns George Leonard Jenyns (19 June 1763 – 1848) was an English priest, a landowner involved both in the Bedford Level Corporation and in the Board of Agriculture. Life He was the son of John Harvey Jenyns of Eye, Suffolk, and was born at Roydon, ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jenyns, Charles 1827 births 1888 deaths People from Bottisham People educated at King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge English cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers 19th-century English Anglican priests English beekeepers English male non-fiction writers Cricketers from Cambridgeshire