Henry Jenner (bishop)
Henry Lascelles Jenner
Education and ministry
Jenner was born in
East Kent[5]
and died in post.
Dunedin controversy
In 1866, at the request of
Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol on 24 August 1866 at Canterbury Cathedral. In 1867, Jenner embarked on a fundraising tour in England for his new diocese.[6]
He was an enthusiastic
anti-catholic sentiment was whipped up in the city and diocese.[7] New Zealand's 4th General Synod (1868) asked him to give up his claim to the See. In 1869, the first session of the Dunedin diocesan synod rejected Jenner's claim to the see; he very reluctantly resigned the see of Dunedin in 1871, the same year that S. T. Nevill was consecrated and enthroned Bishop of Dunedin. The proper procedures for the legal election of bishops to new dioceses in the independent colonial churches had not been established, so Jenner's possession of the See by right of his appointment (in England, by Longley) and consecration (in England, to a See not then erected) alone was dubious. Jenner maintained his legal right to the See right up until his resignation, encouraged by English and New Zealand bishops and synods.[6] Despite several attempts to appoint him, he was never licensed as a bishop diocesan or assistant, in England or abroad; but he retained his East Kent living (undertaking occasional bishop's duties) until his death at Preston.[3]
Family
His son was a British scholar of the Celtic languages, a Cornish cultural activist, and the chief originator of the Cornish language revival.[8]
Jenner, from a cricketing family, played
See also
References
- ^ NPG details
- ^ Find a grave
- ^ a b Hymntime
- ^ “Bishop Jenner and the Diocese of Dunedin” Evans, J.H. pp 317-437: Journal of Religious History, Hoboken, December 1967
- ^ ECCLESIASTICAL The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Tuesday, July 11, 1854; Issue 27315
- ^ a b "Seeking a see : a journal of the Right Reverend Henry Lascelles Jenner D.D. of his visit to Dunedin, New Zealand in 1868–1869" Pearce, J. (ed) (Project Canterbury, accessed 31 May 2019)
- ^ "Dunedin Cathedral Web-site". Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ^ Obituary: Mr. Henry Jenner The Times Thursday, 10 May 1934; Issue 46750
- ^ Henry Jenner at Cricket Archive
- ^ "Obituaries in 1898". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. 24 November 2005.
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