Charles Jennens (1700 – 20 November 1773) was an English landowner and patron of the arts, who assembled the text for five of Handel's oratorios: Saul, Israel in Egypt, L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, Messiah, and Belshazzar.
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Aaron Jennens - Jennens and Bettridge aka Aaron Jennens and T.H. Bettridge (fl. 1815–1864) were highly regarded for producing quality papier-mâché wares.
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William Jennens (1701–1798), a reclusive English financier who was described as "the richest commoner in England".
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Jennens and Bettridge aka Aaron Jennens and T.H. Bettridge (fl. 1815-1864) were highly regarded for producing quality papier-mâché wares.
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David Jennens - David Michael Jennens (4 April 1929 – 27 September 2000) was an English rower who competed for Great Britain in the 1952 Summer Olympics.
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John Jennens, is the Business Counsellor, Oxfordshire Business Enterprise, Banbury, Oxfordshire.
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According to the BBC QI series, Jennens vs Jennens commenced in 1798 and was abandoned in 1915 (117 years later) when the legal fees had exhausted the Jennens estate of funds (worth c. £2 million).
After his death, Jennens' second cousin Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford inherited his music library and much of it is now preserved in the Henry Watson Music Library at Manchester Central Library.
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After his father's death in 1747, Jennens had Gopsall Hall completely rebuilt in the Palladian style, including within the estate an Ionic temple built in memory of his friend, the poet and classical scholar, Edward Holdsworth.
Also in 1951, Jennens was the stroke of the British eight that won the European Rowing Championships in Mâcon, France.
The organ that Handel specified for Charles Jennens in 1749 is now to be found in St James' Church, Great Packington.
Following the departure of the Cockayne Family, Pooley Hall fell into the hands of Charles Jennens of nearby Gopsall Hall and was subsequently inherited by Jennens' god-son The Hon. Charles Finch MP, son of the 3rd Earl of Aylesford.
The courts allocated William's personal property between his next of kin, Mary, Lady Andover, a granddaughter of Humphrey Jennens’s daughter Ann, and William Lygon, 1st Earl Beauchamp (1747–1816), a grandson of Hester Jennens, and a descendant of Thomas Lygon.
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Robert Jennens purchased Acton Place from the Daniels recusant Catholic family in 1708 and continuously remodelled it in the Palladian style until his death in 1725.