Biography

Robert Jenkin (c.1656-1727), college head and religious controversialist, was born on the Isle of Thanet, Kent. Robert was educated at the King's School, Canterbury, and then at St John's College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1674. After graduating BA in 1678 Jenkin was admitted to a fellowship on the foundress's foundation in March 1680, proceeding MA in the following year. Retaining his fellowship, Jenkin entered holy orders and was presented by Francis Turner, bishop of Ely, to the vicarage of Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire. Soon afterwards he became chaplain to Bishop John Lake who in 1688 collated him to the precentorship of Chichester Cathedral. Jenkin spent his retirement engaged in writings on topics of allegiance and faith. 1696 saw the publication of what was to prove Jenkin's most successful work, The Reasonableness and Certainty of the Christian Religion. He died at South Runcton, Norfollk, on 7 April 1727.

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