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Richard Jenkyns (1782 – 16 March 1854) was a British academic administrator at the
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Life

Jenkyns was born at
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in Somerset, where he was baptised on 21 December 1782. He was the eldest son of John Jenkyns (1753-1824), prebendary of Wells, and his wife Jane, née Banister. He was appointed a
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of
Balliol College, Oxford Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the f ...
in 1802, a
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in 1813,
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in 1814, and
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from 23 April 1819 until his death in 1854. He was awarded a
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in 1806 and a
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in 1819. While Master at Balliol College, Jenkyns was also
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of
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from 1824 until 1828. He introduced open competition for
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s and also raised the standard of Balliol College to the first rank at Oxford. From 1845 to 1854, Jenkyns was also
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References


Further reading

* Cannan, Edwin, â
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