Sir Philip Jennings-Clerke, 1st Baronet (c. 1722 – January 1788) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1788, and the 1st Jennings-Clerke Baronet.
Life
Jennings was the son of Philip Jennings of Duddleston Hall, Shropshire, and was baptised Philip Jennings.[1] He was educated at Westminster School. He married Anne Thompson, daughter of Colonel Richard Thompson of Jamaica and Coley Park, Reading.[2] He had an "undistinguished military career"[3] in the Horse Guards attaining the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.[1] He succeeded to the estates of his maternal uncle Sir Talbot Clerke, 6th Baronet,[2] and changed his name to Jennings-Clerke in the early 1760s.[1] Around 1770 he bought a lodge now known as Foxlease, just outside Lyndhurst, Hampshire, and converted it into a grand, two-storey mansion.[1]
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