1848–1934

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Born: Au­gust 8, 1848, St. Co­lumb Ma­jor, Corn­wall, Eng­land.

Died: May 8, 1934, Bos­powes, Hayle, Corn­wall, Eng­land.

Buried: St. Uny’s church­yard, Le­lant, Corn­wall Eng­land.

Biography

Henry was the son of Hen­ry Las­celles Jen­ner, and hus­band of Ka­tha­rine (Kitty) Lee Rawl­ings (mar­ried 1877).

In the se­cu­lar world, he is pri­ma­ri­ly known as a Corn­ish lan­guage scho­lar. He worked at the Brit­ish Mu­se­um al­most 40 years be­fore re­tir­ing to Hayle.

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