Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings - Artist Info

About Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings

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Humphrey Jennings
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    Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings (1907-1950)

    Born at 'The Gazebo' Walberswick, Suffolk on 19 August 1907, elder of two sons of Frank Jennings (1877-1949), an architect, and of his wife, Mildred Jessie née Hall (1881-1955), an amateur painter, who married the previous year, Mildred was a niece of Edward Sinkler. In 1916 Jennings went to Perse School, Cambridge, where the classicist Dr William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950) was headmaster and Caldwell Cook (1885-1939), author of The Play Way, was a teacher of English and drama. Jennings excelled both at work and at games and showed promise as an actor, set designer, and poet.

    In 1926 he won a scholarship from Pembroke College, Cambridge, to read for the...

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