Jenkinson, Francis, 1853-1923

Francis John Henry Jenkinson (1853-1923) was born at Forres, Morayshire, on 20 August 1853. He was educated at a private school at Woodcote, near Henley-on-Thames, and at Marlborough College. In 1872 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1876; M.A., 1879), where he became a Fellow in 1878. He was college lecturer in classics, 1881-1889, and Cambridge University Librarian, 1889-1923. He died at Hampstead on 21 September 1923.

From the guide to the Francis John Henry Jenkinson: Letters on the Sandars lecturers, 1905-1917, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)

Francis John Henry Jenkinson (1853-1923), Cambridge University Librarian, 1890-1923.

From the guide to the Francis John Henry Jenkinson: Dublin Books, c. 1897, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)

From the guide to the Francis John Henry Jenkinson: Latin-Saxon Glossary and Notes, 1910, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)

From the guide to the Francis Jenkinson: Letters and Papers from Cambridge University Library Diaries, 1890-1923, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)

From the guide to the Francis Jenkinson: Correspondence, 1886-1910, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)

From the guide to the Francis John Henry Jenkinson: Ornithological Notebook, 1867-1880, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)

From the guide to the Francis John Henry Jenkinson: Catalogue of his Library, 1911, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)

Francis John Henry Jenkinson (1853-1923), Cambridge University Librarian, 1890-1923; Ulrich Zell (d. c. 1507), printer and publisher of Cologne.

From the guide to the Francis Jenkinson: Sandars Lecture on Ulrich Zell, 1908, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)

Francis John Henry Jenkinson (1853-1923) was Curator of Insects at the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge 1878-1879. He was Cambridge University Librarian from 1890 until his death in 1923. His collection of insects came to the Museum of Zoology on 28 September 1923.

From the guide to the Entomological Notebooks and Letters, 1873-1915, (University of Cambridge: Museum of Zoology)

The first home of Cambridge University Library was at the buildings now known as the 'Old Schools', developed during the fifteenth century. In its early years the Library was under the superintendence of the University Chaplain; the first librarian was appointed in 1577, and the first regulations for the Library's administration were drawn up five years later. Until the bequest of Tobias Rustat in 1666, the Library had no income for purchasing books, relying instead on gifts and bequests. The Library was granted the right to claim a copy of every work published in the United Kingdom by the Licensing Acts of 1662-1679 and 1685-1695, and by the Copyright Act of 1709 and successive Acts, although this privilege was not fully exploited until the nineteenth century. The Library moved to the present building, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, in 1934.

Francis John Henry Jenkinson (1853-1923) was Cambridge University Librarian, 1890-1923.

From the guide to the Francis John Henry Jenkinson: Cambridge University Library Diaries, 1890-1923, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)