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JENKINS, ROBERT (fl. 1731-1745)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 318 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JEE-JUN
JENKINS, ROBERT (fl. 1731-1745) , English master mariner, is known as the protagonist of the " Jenkins's ear " incident, which, magnified in England by the press and the opposition, became a contributory cause of the war between England and Spain (1739). Bringing
home
  the brig " Rebecca " from the West Indies in 1731, Jenkins was boarded by a Spanish guarda-costa, whose
commander
  rifled the holds and cut off one of his ears. On arriving in England Jenkins stated his grievance to the king, and a report was furnished by the
commander
 -in-
chief
  in the West Indies confirming his account. At first the case created no
great
  stir, but in 1738 he repeated his story with dramatic detail before a committee of the
House
  of Commons, producing what purported to be the ear that had been cut off. Afterwards it was suggested that he might have lost tli,e ear in the pillory.
Jenkins was subsequently given the command of a ship in the
East
  India Company s service, and later became supervisor of the company's affairs at St
Helena
 . In 1741 he was sent from England to that
island
  to investigate charges of corruption brought against the acting
governor
 , and from May 1741 until March 1742 he administered the affairs of the
island
 . Thereafter he resumed his naval career, and is stated in an action with a pirate vessel to have pre-served his'own vessel and three others under his care (see T. H. Brooke, History of the Island of St
Helena
  (London, 2nd ed., 1824), and H. R. Janisch, Extracts from the St Helena Records, 1885).


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