Joseph Jekyll FRS (1 January 1754 – 8 March 1837) was a British Whig member of parliament for Calne, Wiltshire.
Edward Jekyll, R.N., of Haverfordwest and was educated at Westminster School (1766–1770) and Christ Church, Oxford, where he was awarded BA in 1774 and MA in 1777.
[1] He was elected in 1790 a Fellow of the Royal Society as "'a Gentleman conversant in various Branches of Literature".
In 1787, he was elected member of parliament for Calne, a seat he held until 1816, after which he resigned by accepting the notional crown appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.
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