Author: Jerningham, Edward
Biography:
JERNINGHAM, Edward (1737-1812: ODNB)
The youngest son of a wealthy recusant baronet, Sir George Jerningham, and his wife Mary Plowden, he was born at Costessey Hall in Norfolk and given a Catholic education in France. He never married but lived a bachelor life in London, attending salons and the theatre and publishing poems and plays that never made much of a mark. In the 1790s he converted to Anglicanism. Socially, he moved in aristocratic circles: he was a confidant of the Prince of Wales, looked up to Horace Walpole, knew Byron, contributed to Lady Miller's Batheaston Villa anthology. His correspondence, which began to be published in the middle of the nineteenth century, has proved more durable than his literary works. (ODNB 20 June 2019)
Other Names:
- Mr. Jerningham