Rev. Jennings

A Rev. Jennings ministered at Barrington (Audley Papers, 132/B. 72, Cambridgeshire Record Office, Cambridge). Rev. Jennings may have been a relation of Thomas Jennings of Waterbeach, the individual named in the above letter and the fragment. Both men may also have been relations of Mrs. Jennings (see above) of Cambridge, Benjamin Flower’s landlady. Thomas Jennings was instrumental, along with Flower and Audley, in forming the Dissenting congregation in Waterbeach, which opened a chapel there in March 1803 (Cambridge Intelligencer, 12 May 1798, 2 November 1799, 12 March 1803, 3 April 1803). This was the same congregation from which a young Charles Haddon Spurgeon would emerge a few decades later.