Jeffery Ekins

Jeffery Ekins D.D. (died 1791) was an English churchman, Dean of Carlisle Cathedral from 1782, known also as a poet.

Life

He was a native of Barton-Seagrave, Northamptonshire, where his father, the Rev. Jeffery Ekins, M.A., was rector. He received his education at Eton College. In 1749 he was elected to King's College, Cambridge, where he obtained a fellowship. He graduated B.A. in 1755 and M.A. in 1758. In early life he was the close companion of Richard Cumberland. A manuscript poem on "Dreams".

He published: ) married John Hooper Holder (1779–1856) as his second wife, in 1812, and had a daughter Emily Janetta.

Newton Nachlass Papers relating to Isaac Newton's occult studies came into the hands of Ekins in the middle of the 18th century, and remained in the family until 1872. At that point they went to New College, Oxford.