John Edward Jenkins
1838–1910
Indian-born radical politician, social reformer, and satirist. Son of a Wesleyan missionary. Educated in Montreal, Canada, and the US. Called to the bar, 1864. Worked for the Aborigines Protection and Anti-Slavery Society. Anonymous author of Ginx’s baby, his birth and other misfortunes (1870), a satire on religious education. First agent-general in London for the dominion of Canada, 1874–6. MP for Dundee, 1874–80.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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