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unusual facts about Henry Jenner


Vanessa Beeman

When visiting Cornwall she stayed with her paternal grandfather, Sidney Hocking, who was Cornish and had Henry Jenner's A Handbook of the Cornish Language among his Cornish book collection.


Bible translations into Cornish

Henry Jenner suggests that some other translations from the same period, of Proverbs 30:5–6 and of Psalms 2:11, 7:11, 35:1 and 2, were also produced by William Kerew.

Newlyn

Daines Barrington, Georg Sauerwein, and Henry Jenner who all collected Cornish writings or sayings, and the latter two became proficient in its use.

Sophia Morrison

She was consulted by the leading folklorists of the day, even being mentioned by Walter Evans-Wentz as of equal standing to the likes of John Rhys, Douglas Hyde, Alexander Carmichael, Henry Jenner and Anatole Le Braz.


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