Thomas Jenner (1 February 1689, in
Standish – 12 January 1768, in
Oxford
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) was an English academic.
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Jenner was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford
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, of which college he was a Fellow
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from 1715 to 1745. He was Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford from 1728 and its President from 1745, holding both posts until his death.
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1689 births
1768 deaths
People from Gloucestershire
18th-century English theologians
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Lady Margaret Professors of Divinity
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