Sir Richard Jenkins GCB JP DL FRS (18 February 1785 – 30 December 1853) was member of parliament for Shrewsbury from 1830 to 1832 and from 1837 to 1841.
[2] He married Elizabeth Helen, daughter of Hugh Spottiswoode, of the Honourable East India Company Civil Service, in 1824[1] and was the father of Colonel Richard Jenkins of the 1st Bengal Cavalry,[3][4] two other sons and two daughters.
[2] Sir Richard was invested as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) in 1838,[5] and awarded the Third Mahratta War medal.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and, in 1841, a Fellow of the Royal Society,[6] for which his candidature citation read that he was a deserving applicant for his "Eminence as a Political Character in India; for his acquaintance with Oriental Literature; for his variable reports to the Government of India; & for his administration of the affairs of Berar"[7] Jenkins died at Gothic Cottage, Blackheath, London, in 1853 aged 68 and was buried in Shropshire at Bicton.
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