Henry Lascelles Jenner (6 June 182018 September 1898) was a nineteenth century

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Education and ministry

Jenner was born in

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Hymntime
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; and ordained

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in 1843 and

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in 1844. After a

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, he became

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and died in post.

Dunedin controversy

In 1866, at the request of George Selwyn, the

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, the

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, selected Jenner in anticipation of the creation of the

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and Diocese of Dunedin from part of the Diocese of Christchurch. Jenner was

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in 1866 by royal licence as "Bishop of the United Church of England and Ireland in our colony of New Zealand", together with

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(as second Bishop of Nelson) by Longley;

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(later Archbishop of Canterbury); and William Thomson,

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on 24 August 1866 at

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. In 1867, Jenner embarked on a fundraising tour in England for his new diocese."Seeking a see : a journal of the Right Reverend Henry Lascelles Jenner D.D. of his visit to Dunedin, New Zealand in 1868–1869" Pearce, J. (ed)
Project Canterbury
accessed 31 May 2019) He was an enthusiastic

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— when news of his "

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" activities reached Dunedin, anti-ritualist and

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sentiment was whipped up in the city and diocese. New Zealand's 4th

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(1868) asked him to give up his claim to the See. In 1869, the first session of the Dunedin diocesan synod rejected Jenner's claim to the see; he very reluctantly resigned the see of Dunedin in 1871, the same year that S. T. Nevill was consecrated and enthroned Bishop of Dunedin. The proper procedures for the legal election of bishops to new dioceses in the independent colonial churches had not been established, so Jenner's possession of the See by right of his appointment (in England, by Longley) and consecration (in England, to a See not then erected) alone was dubious. Jenner maintained his legal right to the See right up until his resignation, encouraged by English and New Zealand bishops and synods. Despite several attempts to appoint him, he was never licensed as a bishop diocesan or assistant, in England or abroad; but he retained his East Kent living (undertaking occasional bishop's duties) until his death at Preston.

Family

His son was a British scholar of the

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, a Cornish cultural activist, and the chief originator of the

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revival. Jenner, from a cricketing family, played

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in four matches 1839–1842, representing

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and the

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.Henry Jenner at Cricket Archive
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jenner, Henry Lascelles 1820 births 1898 deaths People from Chislehurst People educated at Harrow School Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge 19th-century Anglican bishops in New Zealand Anglican bishops of Dunedin Anglo-Catholic bishops English Anglo-Catholics Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Cambridge University cricketers Gentlemen of Kent cricketers English cricketers Jenner family (Wales)

Education and ministry

Dunedin controversy

Family

See also

References