About Robert Jenkins
Lived 1814 – 1859 (aged 45). Robert Jenkins was a politician.
Robert Pitt Jenkins (26 January 1814 – 26 October 1859) was an Australian politician.
He was born in New South Wales to merchant Robert Jenkins and Jemima Pitt. He was a pastoralist who owned land at Bombala and on the Murrumbidgee River. On 10 November 1843 he married Louisa Adelaide Plunkett. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1856 until 1859, when he died at sea near Wales.
For a period he lived in New Zealand. He was elected an Alderman in the first council election ever held in Wellington in 1842.
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politician (1814-1859)
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Robert Jenkins was born on 26 January 1814.
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Robert Jenkins died on 26 October 1859.
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Robert Jenkins was a politician.
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