Henry Jodrell

He was a younger son of Paul Jodrell of Duffield, Derbyshire, the Solicitor-General to Frederick, Prince of Wales, and his wife, Elizabeth.

[2] Richard Paul Jodrell, (1745 – 1831), classical scholar and playwright, and Sir Paul Jodrell (died 1803), physician to the Nabob of Arcot, were his elder brothers.

[3] He was educated at Eton school and Lincoln's Inn, where he was called to the bar in 1773, and inherited Bayfield Hall, near the north Norfolk coast, from his mother.

He resigned the recordership in 1813 to avoid having to pass the death sentence on his wife's murderer.

[5] He married Johanna Elizabeth, daughter of John Weyland of Woodeaton, Oxfordshire.