Jelinger Symons (1778, Low Leyton,

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– 20 May 1851, London) was an

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rector and amateur botanist. Symons matriculated in July 1793 at

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. He graduated there with B.A. in 1797 and M.A. in 1800. He was ordained as

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on 29 January 1799 and as priest in September 1801. In 1799 he became the

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of Whitburn, County Durham, where his father, Jelinger Symonds (1748–1810), was the rector from 1791 to 1810. The younger Jelinger Symons was from 1808 to 1851 the

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of Monkland, Herefordshire and from 1833 to 1851 the rector of

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. Symons served as a chaplain in 1809 to parishioners in West Ilsley, Berkshire and in 1821 to British residents in

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, France. He was J.P. for

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. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1798. His only natural history publication was ''Synopsis Plantarum Insulis Britannicis Indigenarum'', published in 1798 by John White in

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. Jelinger Symons, the younger, married Maria Henrietta Airey in January 1805 in Durham.

Jelinger Cookson Symons Jelinger Cookson Symons (27 August 1809 – 7 April 1860) was an English barrister, school inspector and writer. Early life Jelinger Cookson Symons was born at West Ilsley, Berkshire, on 27 August 1809; his father Jelinger Symons was a cleric ...

was their son.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Symons, Jelinger 1778 births 1851 deaths 19th-century English Anglican priests 19th-century British botanists Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Fellows of the Linnean Society of London