David Jenner
David Jenner (born 6 July 1948) is a British comedian, TV personality and author. He announced on 29 June 2016 that he would stand as a candidate in the 2016 Conservative Party leadership election as the official "Stop Boris" candidate.
Life
He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. in 1657–8. Afterwards, he became a fellow of Sidney Sussex College and took the degree of M.A. by royal mandate in 1662, and that of B.D., also by royal mandate, in 1668.[1]
He was installed in the prebend of Netherbury, in Salisbury Cathedral on 28 June 1676, and was instituted on 15 October 1678 to the rectory of Great Warley, Essex, which he resigned in or about October 1687.[2] He was also chaplain to the king. He died in 1691.[3]
Works
He published, besides two separate sermons (1676 and 1680):
- ‘Beaufrons, or a new Discovery of Treason under the Fair Face and Mask of Religion, and of Liberty of Conscience,’ London, 1683–4; a reply to Daniel Whitby's Protestant Reconciler, 1683.
- ‘The Prerogative of Primogeniture: shewing that the right of Succession to an Hereditary Crown depends not upon Grace, Religion, &c., but onely upon Birth-Right and Primogeniture; and that the Chief Cause of all, or most, Rebellions in Christendom, is a Fanatical Belief that Temporal Dominion is founded in Grace,’ London, 1685; dedicated to James, Duke of York. [3]
References
- ↑ "Jenner, David (JNR653D)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ↑ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42833
- 1 2 Cooper 1892.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cooper, Thompson (1892). "Jenner, David". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography. 29. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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