[3] The eldest son of Roger William Bulwer Jenyns (1858 – 1936), J.P., of Bottisham Hall, Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, by his wife Winifred Pike, daughter of Arthur Pease, M.P., of Hummersknott, Darlington, Roger Soame Jenyns was educated at Eton and at Magdalene College, Cambridge (B.A.
[6] His articles would often touch on the cultural role of South China's animals and plants.
[7] In 1931, Jenyns left Hong Kong for England, to take up a job at the British Museum,[5] where he served as the Assistant Keeper of Oriental Antiquities until 1967.
[3] In 1936, Roger Soame Jenyns inherited the Bottisham Hall estate from his father.
[10][11] On 24 April 1941, Soame Jenyns married Anne Thomson, dau.