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Philip Jennings (Queenborough MP)

Philip Jennings (c.1679 – 10 February 1740) of Dudleston Hall, Shropshire was an English lawyer and politician.

He was the oldest son of Edward Jennings, QC, a barrister who later became Member of Parliament (MP) for East Looe. Philip was a nephew of Admiral Sir John Jennings. He was educated at Eton and St John's College, Cambridge. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1704 and became a bencher in 1735.[1] He succeeded his father in 1725.

He sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1715 to 1722, as MP for Queenborough.[1]

He married twice: firstly in 1705, Diana, the daughter of Sir William Bowyer, 2nd Bt., of Denham, Buckinghamshire, with whom he had a son, who predeceased him, and a daughter and secondly in 1721, Dorothy, the daughter of George Clerke of Launde Abbey, Leicestershire, with whom he had 3 sons and 6 daughters.

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  1. ^ a b Newman, A. N. (1970). R. Sedgwick (ed.). "JENNINGS, Philip (?1679-1740), of Dudleston, Salop". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 12 June 2014.


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