Joseph Clayton Jennyns

(1835 fl.)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Jennyns, Joseph Clayton LBT ID: JoJenny1835 VIAF ID: 11398407 LOC ID: n88130821
SOURCES: Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors (1816); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
West-Indian barrister; he wrote on politics, including To the People of England: the Constitution—the whole Constitution—and nothing but the Constitution (1835). He purchased the Champion newspaper, defended slavery, and ran unsuccessfully for Parliament.
REFERENCES TO Joseph Clayton Jennyns: Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. X” in New Monthly Magazine 81 (December 1847) 415-24 Found 1: ¶ 3 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. III. 1788-1792 Found 1: ¶ 6