Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Fleeming Jenkin
Standard Name: Jenkin, Fleeming
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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death | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | HCJ
died of paralysis and bronchitis, Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908. Stevenson, Robert Louis, and Fleeming Jenkin. “Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin”. Papers, Literary, Scientific, &c., edited by Sir Sidney Colvin, J. A. Ewing, Sir Sidney Colvin, and J. A. Ewing, Longmans, Green, 1877, p. 1: xi - clxx. clii, cliv |
Family and Intimate relationships | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | HCJ
bore her only child, Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin
(who later became distinguished as an electrical and civil engineer), in a government building near Dungeness in Kent. Stevenson, Robert Louis, and Fleeming Jenkin. “Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin”. Papers, Literary, Scientific, &c., edited by Sir Sidney Colvin, J. A. Ewing, Sir Sidney Colvin, and J. A. Ewing, Longmans, Green, 1877, p. 1: xi - clxx. xxviii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | Her mother, Susan née Campbell
, of a white Jamaican, originally Scottish, family, was described by Robert Louis Stevenson in his memoir of HCJ
's son
as having fierce passions and a truly Highland pride... |
Residence | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | HCJ
and her son
moved from southern Scotland to Frankfurt in Germany. Stevenson, Robert Louis, and Fleeming Jenkin. “Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin”. Papers, Literary, Scientific, &c., edited by Sir Sidney Colvin, J. A. Ewing, Sir Sidney Colvin, and J. A. Ewing, Longmans, Green, 1877, p. 1: xi - clxx. xxix-xxx |
Residence | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | HCJ
and her family lived at Genoa in Italy, where they had settled as refugees from the revolution in Paris, and where her son Fleeming
became the first Protestant admitted to study at the university. Stevenson, Robert Louis, and Fleeming Jenkin. “Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin”. Papers, Literary, Scientific, &c., edited by Sir Sidney Colvin, J. A. Ewing, Sir Sidney Colvin, and J. A. Ewing, Longmans, Green, 1877, p. 1: xi - clxx. xl |
Residence | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | HCJ
and her family returned from Genoa to Manchester, where her son Fleeming
was apprenticed at Fairbairn
's engineering works there. Stevenson, Robert Louis, and Fleeming Jenkin. “Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin”. Papers, Literary, Scientific, &c., edited by Sir Sidney Colvin, J. A. Ewing, Sir Sidney Colvin, and J. A. Ewing, Longmans, Green, 1877, p. 1: xi - clxx. xlvii |
Timeline
23 February 1848
Fourteen-year-old Fleeming Jenkin
(son of the writer Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
and a future distinguished scientist), caught up in the February Revolution, noted the number and variety of women among the street mobs.