Philip Jennings (Queenborough MP)

Philip Jennings (c.1679 – 10 February 1740) of Dudleston Hall, Shropshire was an English lawyer and politician.

For other people named Philip Jennings, see Philip Jennings (disambiguation).

He was the oldest son of Edward Jennings, QC, a barrister who later became Member of Parliament (MP) for East Looe. Philip was a nephew of Admiral Sir John Jennings. He was educated at Eton and St John's College, Cambridge. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1704 and became a bencher in 1735.[1] He succeeded his father in 1725.

He sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1715 to 1722, as MP for Queenborough.[1]

He married twice: firstly in 1705, Diana, the daughter of Sir William Bowyer, 2nd Bt., of Denham, Buckinghamshire, with whom he had a son, who predeceased him, and a daughter and secondly in 1721, Dorothy, the daughter of George Clerke of Launde Abbey, Leicestershire, with whom he had 3 sons and 6 daughters.

References
  1. Newman, A. N. (1970). R. Sedgwick (ed.). "JENNINGS, Philip (?1679-1740), of Dudleston, Salop". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 12 June 2014.


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