Soame Jenyns

(1704-1787)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Jenyns, Soame, 1704-1787 NRA: Jenyns Soame (1704-1787) Author DNB: Jenyns, Soame (1704-1787), author and politician LBT ID: SoJenyn1787 VIAF ID: 7652956 LOC ID: n85049481	B/BAP: 1704-01-01 DIED: 1787-12-18
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English poet, politician, and wit, the author of A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil (1757).
REFERENCES TO Soame Jenyns: William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. XXVI. 1800-1803 Found 1: ¶ 25 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter V 1786-90 Found 1: ¶ 2