Sir Philip Jennings-Clerke, 1st Baronet
Sir Philip Jennings-Clerke, 1st Baronet was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1788, and the 1st Jennings-Clerke Baronet.Life
Jennings was the son of Philip Jennings of Duddleston Hall, Shropshire, and was baptised Philip Jennings. He was educated at Westminster School. He married Anne Thompson, daughter of Colonel Richard Thompson of Jamaica and Coley Park, Reading. He had an "undistinguished military career" in the Horse Guards attaining the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He succeeded to the estates of his maternal uncle Sir Talbot Clerke, 6th Baronet, and changed his name to Jennings-Clerke in the early 1760s. Around 1770 he bought a lodge now known as Foxlease, just outside Lyndhurst, Hampshire, and converted it into a grand, two-storey mansion.
Jennings was a Member of Parliament for Totnes between 1768 and 1788. He was created 1st Baronet Jennings-Clerke of Duddlestone Hall on 26 October 1774.
His only remaining son, Sir Charles Philip Jennings survived him by only a few months, whereupon the baronetcy became extinct.Children
His children included:
- John Edward
- Charles Philip
- Anne
- Frances
