Sir Roger Jenyns (1663–22 September 1740), of

Bottisham Bottisham is a village and civil parish in the East Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England, about east of Cambridge, halfway to Newmarket. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,983, including Chittering, increasin ...

, Cambridgeshire was an English knight and landowner. He was the son of Roger Jenyns of Hayes, Middlesex (1636-1693) and his wife Sarah Latch (d 1703), daughter of Joseph Latch. He married Martha widow of John Mingay and they had three children - Roger, Veare, Sarah - who all died in infancy. After his wife's death in 1701, he married Elizabeth Soame, daughter of Sir Peter Soame, 2nd Bt. Their children were: *

Soame Jenyns Soame Jenyns (1 January 1704 – 18 December 1787) was an English writer and Member of Parliament. He was an early advocate of the ethical consideration of animals. Life and work He was the eldest son of Sir Roger Jenyns and his second wife El ...

(1704–1787), the MP and writer. * Sarah Jenyns (1667–1670) died aged 3 years * Thomas (1670–1696) unmarried * Dorothy (?-?) married Thomas Biggs He served as

High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire High may refer to: Science and technology * Height * High (atmospheric), a high-pressure area * High (computability), a quality of a Turing degree, in computability theory * High (tectonics), in geology an area where relative tectonic uplift ...

for 1701-02 and was knighted when he bought the Manor of Allington and Vaux, including

Bottisham Hall Bottisham Hall is a country house in Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, England. Built in 1797 for the Reverend George Leonard Jenyns to replace the family's previous home on the same estate,"Bottisham: Manors and other estates", ''A History of the Count ...

. Jenyns also served as the Receiver & Expenditor General for the

Bedford Level Corporation The Bedford Level Corporation (or alternatively the Corporation of the Bedford Level) was founded in England in 1663 to manage the draining of the Fens of East Central England. It formalised the legal status of the Company of Adventurers previously ...

, the company which drained the Great Level of the Fens in the mid-seventeenth century. His brother, John Jenyns, succeeded their father as the Surveyor General of the Corporation. He died in 1740 and was laid to rest in Holy Trinity church, Bottisham, where there is an elaborate lifesized monument of Sir Roger and his second wife in night attire, sculpted by

Peter Scheemakers Peter Scheemakers or Pieter Scheemaeckers II or the Younger (10 January 1691 – 12 September 1781) was a Flemish sculptor who worked for most of his life in London. His public and church sculptures in a classicist style had an important influenc ...

.Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis

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