Jenner family wills

Copies of the Wills of Robert Fitzhardinge Jenner and of the Rev. George Charles Black [1723-1775]. This MS. seems to have formed part of a draft of a larger document addressed by an unnamed correspondent to James Howard [1821-1889], M.P. for Bedford from 1868 to 1874, who is described in the D.N.B. as a 'leading champion of tenant right'. The date 1869 is found on the verso of the last leaf.

c. 1870

1 file 6 ll. 4to. 20 × 16 cm. Unbound.

Purchased at Sotheby's 27/11/1918, Lot 1003A (part).

Lt. Col. R. F. Jenner was the younger son of Dr. Edward Jenner: the Rev. G. C. Black was his uncle by marriage to Dr. Jenner's sister Mary. His Will is dated 1759.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).