A younger son, David Jennings, became known as tutor of the Coward Trust academy in Wellclose Square.
In July 1722 Jennings became minister of the Presbyterian congregation at Hinckley, and moved his academy to that town, where a new meeting-house was immediately built for him.
The four years' course of study was documented by Doddridge,[2] who comments on his tutor's thoroughness of method and liberality of spirit.
Alexander Gordon, writing in the Dictionary of National Biography, describes John Jennings as more able and original than his brother David.
John, "the wit of Doddridge's academy", was minister (ordained 12 August 1742) at St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, and left the ministry about 1756 from a failure of speech.