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4 unusual facts about William Jennens


Jennens

William Jennens (1701–1798), a reclusive English financier who was described as "the richest commoner in England".

William Jennens

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.

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.

William the Rich

William Jennens (1701–1798) William the Miser, William the Rich, 'the richest commoner in England' who died intestate.



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