IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0064 JEN
Held at: National Maritime Museum
Title: Jenkinson, Rear-Admiral Henry (1790-1865)
Date(s): 1808-1828
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 box
Name of creator(s): Jenkinson | Henry | 1790-1865 | Rear-Admiral
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Jenkinson entered the Navy in 1806. In 1808 he was appointed to the DECADE and was in the VENERABLE in 1809 during the Walcheren expedition. In 1810 he was promoted to lieutenant. He next served in the CLYDE in the Channel and then in the INCONSTANT, 1811 to 1812, at Vera Cruz and in the Channel. He was promoted to commander in 1812 and from this time until 1814 commanded the JASPER in home waters. He was promoted to captain in 1814. Between 1816 and 1817 he was in Russia, apparently on a private visit. He was promoted to rear-admiral in 1850.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Henry Jenkinson, consisting of fifty letters written by Jenkinson to his parents, 1808 to 1817, and a letter written by a sister-in-law, 1828.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Please contact the Archive for further information.
Conditions governing reproduction:
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Finding aids:
Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The papers were presented by Mrs A.G. Bayley in 1950.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Sep 2011.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: 2010-08-26