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    Memoir of the late Rev . Herbert Jenkins . MR . HERBERT JENKINS was a native of Maidstone , in Kent , where his father was minister of the Independent Congregation . He received the rudiments of classical

    learning under the Rev . John Wiche , the Baptist Minister in the same town : * but his proficiency was greatly assisted by the attention and pains bestowed on his improvement by his father , whom he had the infelicity to lose early in life . But , stimulated by

    his own thirst after knowledge , he prepared himself , by assiduous application and study , pursued under unfavourable circumstances , to support the character of a private tutor to youth in families of the higher rank . A vigorous and capacious mind , united

    with a quick and lively imagination , aided his acquisition of a large share of information upon almost every subject j which was fully known to those only who dwelt under the same roof with him . His system of instruction was rendered very complete and

    valuable , we have learnt , by an improvement of almost every circumstance and occurrence of the passing day , upon which some useful information might be grafted ; and it was often remarked , that he had a peculiar happiness in his method of

    conveying his ideas to others . He spent some years , before he entered on theological studies , in the capacity of a tutor in several families ; particularly in that of Sir George Staunton , whom he accompanied into Ireland \ and by whom he was invited to attend his son in the embassy to China . This alluring offer he declined ,

    particularly from an apprehension that an acceptance of it might draw him off from his views and purposes of settling , as a dissenting minister . During this period of his life , as he had bestowed peculiar attention on the study of elocution , he was engaged to read lectures on that subject , at the new College in Hackney ,

    Relinquishing these useful employments , he commenced a student in divinity , in the academy under the direction of | he Rev . Dr . Addington , at Mile End , near London . From his entrance into this seminary , he was

    * See a Memoir of Mr . Wiche in the Protestant Dissenter ' s Magazine for 1797 ,

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    an assiduous and useful assistant t « r the President of it , particularly n * communicating , as a gentleman who was his fellow-student reports ,

    important information on the structure of the English language , and on topics connected with it . Here a close intimacy commenced between Mr . Jenkins and Dr . Addington , which lasted as long as the latter lived .

    When he appeared in the public character of the preacher , he became first , a colleague with the venerable Mr . Hampton , at Ban bury , Oxfordshire , in 1792 . From whence he removed to Stourbridge , in

    Worcestershire , July , 1796 . He resigned his pastoral connexions there in 1 S 08 , and settled at Hinckley , He had not resided much more than two years in that town when it pleased Providence to visit him with a long and severe illness . His life was in imminent

    danger 3 and though his days were not immediately cut off , he never recovered his former vigour and health j and found it necessary to withdraw from the stated services of the pastoral office , at least in a large congregation , and where his appearance in the

    pulpit on both parts of the day was required . That severe illness he bore with pious resignation and Christian fortitude ; though he devoutly acquiesced in the will of heaven , he deeply felt the affliction of being obliged to relinquish the public functions of the Christian ministry , even in pail *

    In the duties of his public character he evidently took a high pleasure . In the performance of them he was ambitious to excel and to be thought to excel , and had , it may be regretted , too lively a feeling of the reception his services met with . A

    solicitude , as to the justness and propriety of his elocution , originating probably from the nature of his early studies , was thought by some to have given too studied an appearance to his

    delivery , so as to be unfavourable to the effect of discourses well-suited , by the subject , sentiments and spirit of them , to excite attention and impresi the heart : so difficult is it for frail

    man , even in the pursuit of excellence , to avoid faults : so difficult is it , where we aim to merit praise , to escape blame . In estimating human attainments and human characters , much allowance ought to be made for unknown but very nupposable impre *

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    70 Memoir of the late Rev . Herbert Jenkins .

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    Vol . ir . p , J 21 .

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1815, page 70, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1757/page/6/