Francis Jenkinson

Francis John Henry Jenkinson (20 August 1853 – 21 September 1923) was a librarian of the University of Cambridge 1889–1923. He was succeeded by A. F. Scholfield.

Life Jenkinson was born in the town of Forres, Moray in Scotland. He was educated at Marlborough College, and matriculated in 1872 at Trinity College, Cambridge, where in 1876 he gained a B.A. with a first class in the Classical Tripos; he graduated M.A. in 1879. In 1878 he became a Fellow of Trinity fellow, lecturing in Classics between 1881 and 1889. Jenkinson married Marian Sydney Wetton in 1887.

Whilst librarian at Cambridge, Jenkinson oversaw the acquisition of various collections, including Lord Acton's library and material from the Cairo Genizah. In 1908, he delivered the Sandars Lecture; published in The Library in 1926, his lecture examined “Books printed at Cologne by U. Zell”. along with displays of Jenkinsoniana and of John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Jenkinson.