Sir Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Baronet
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Sir Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Baronet (c. 1655 – 1710), of Walcot, Charlbury, Oxfordshire, and Hawkesbury, Gloucestershire, was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1689 and 1710.
Jenkinson was the eldest son of Sir Robert Jenkinson, 1st Baronet, of Walcot, and his wife Mary Bankes, daughter of Sir John Bankes of Corfe Castle, Dorset.[1] He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford, on 11 November 1671, aged 17 and was admitted at Inner Temple in 1672.[2] In 1677, he succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father. From 1679 to 1680, he was Commissioner for assessment for Oxfordshire. He was a freeman of Woodstock in 1680 and a Justice of the Peace for Oxfordshire from 1680 to March 1688. He was deputy lieutenant for Oxfordshire from 1681 to February 1688. He married Sarah Tomlins, daughter of Thomas Tomlins, Grocer, of London and Bromley, Middlesex on 14 February 1684. He was freeman of Oxford in 1684 and restored as Justice of the Peace for Oxfordshire in October 1688.
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