Editing Henry Jenner (section)

{{Short description|Cornish cultural activist (1848–1934)}}
{{About|the Cornish scholar|his father|Henry Jenner (bishop)}}
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| name          = Henry Jenner
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| image         = Henry Jenner, MA FSA.jpg
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| caption       = Jenner {{circa}} 1921
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| birth_date    = 8 August 1848 
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| death_date    = {{Death date and age|df=y|8 May 1934|8 August 1848}}
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| occupation    = Scholar of [[Celtic languages]] and museum curator 
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| known_for     = chief originator of the [[Cornish language]] revival
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| spouse        = {{marriage|[[Katharine Lee Rawlings]]|1877}}
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'''Henry Jenner''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FSA}} (8 August 1848 – 8 May 1934) was a British scholar of the [[Celtic languages]], a [[Cornwall|Cornish]] [[cultural activist]], and the chief originator of the [[Cornish language]] revival.

Jenner was born at [[St Columb Major]] on 8 August 1848. He was the son of [[Henry Lascelles Jenner]], who was one of two curates to the [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|Rector]] of [[St. Columb Major]], and later consecrated though not enthroned as the first [[Anglican Diocese of Dunedin#Jenner controversy|Bishop of Dunedin]] and the grandson of [[Herbert Jenner-Fust]].<ref name="Obit">{{cite news | title = Obituary: Mr. Henry Jenner (transcription) | url = http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Times/1934/Obituary/Henry_Jenner | work = [[The Times]] | location = London | page = 19; col A | date =  10 May 1934|issue= 46750 | access-date = 20 December 2008 }}</ref> In 1869 Jenner became a clerk in the Probate Division of the High Court and two years later was nominated by the [[Archbishop of Canterbury|Primate at Canterbury]] for a post in the Department of Ancient Manuscripts in the [[British Museum]], his father then being the Rector of [[Preston-next-Wingham|Preston]], a small village near Canterbury.

In 1904, he successfully campaigned for Cornwall to join the [[Celtic Congress]]. He jointly founded the [[Old Cornwall Society]] at St Ives in 1920 and in 1928 he was a joint founder of the [[Cornish Gorsedh]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Cornwall forever |url=https://www.cornwallforever.co.uk/people/henry-jenner |access-date=15 October 2019}}</ref>