Editing Henry Jenner (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:DSCN1081JennerHome.jpg|Former home of the Jenners in Hayle|thumb]]
[[File:DSCN1082JennerPlaque.jpg|thumb|Commemorative Plaque on the home of the Jenners in Hayle]]
Jenner married [[Katharine Lee Rawlings]] in 1877 (she was a novelist and author of non-fiction under the name Katharine Lee).<ref>Ellis, P. B. (1974) ''The Cornish Language''. London: Routledge; pp. 144, 223</ref> A biography of Henry and Kitty, including much information about the context in which their work appeared, was published in 2004 by Derek R. Williams.<ref>Williams, Derek R., editor. {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070928231009/http://www.willowbooks.co.uk/products/shop.asp?gid=6365&cid=529&src=featuredBooks.asp&p=6 Henry and Katharine Jenner, A Celebration of Cornwall’s Culture, Language and Identity]}}. London: Francis Boutle. {{ISBN|978-1-903427-19-4}}</ref>

After working at the British Museum for more than forty years,<ref name="Obit" /> in 1909 Jenner and his wife Kitty<ref>see Peter W. Thomas, "Jenner, Henry (1848–1934)", [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]], online edn,[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/75066], (accessed 19 August 2007), for more information on both Henry and Kitty Jenner.</ref> retired to [[Hayle]], his wife's home town, and in January 1912 he was elected as the Librarian of the [[Morrab Library]], a post he held until 1927. He also served as President of both the [[Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society]] and of the [[Royal Institution of Cornwall]].<ref>Peter W. Thomas, 'Jenner, Henry (1848–1934)', [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]], online edn, Oxford University Press, May 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/75066  accessed 15 Nov 2007]</ref>

In 1933 he was received into the Roman Catholic Church.<ref>{{cite web |title=Henry Jenner |url=http://www.dasserghikernewek.org.uk/jenner.html |website=Dasserghi Kernewek |language=en}}</ref>

He died on 8 May 1934 and is buried in [[St. Uny's Church, Lelant]]. Before he died, he said: "The whole object of my life has been to inculcate into Cornish people a sense of their Cornishness."