Soame Jenyns
1704 – 1787
Soame Jenyns was an MP for Cambridgeshire and a commissioner of the Board of Trade.
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Jenyns was primarily known in his time as a poet and a theologian. His light and airy writing style came in for criticism from Samuel Johnson, but helped to ensure the success of his political writing, which was acknowledged as both witty and accessible.
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