About Edmund Jennings
Lived 1626 – 1691 (aged 64–65). Edmund Jennings was an English politician.
Sir Edmund Jennings (1626 – September 1691) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1691.
Life Jennings was born at Scotton, the son of Jonathan Jennings of Ripon, West Riding of Yorkshire and was baptised at Farnham, Yorkshire on 30 November 1626. He attended schools at Silsden and Ripon in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was admitted at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge on 7 May 1641. He was admitted at Lincoln's Inn on 6 October 1646.
In 1659, Jennings was elected Member of Parliament for Ripon in the Third Protectorate Parliament. In 1660, he was elected MP for Ripon in the Convention Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Ripon in 1673 for the Cavalier Parliament and sat until 1679.
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English politician (1626 - 1691)
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