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the former, yet the state of his health indicated that he was not 
able to stand the fatigue of medical work. Ordained Deacon in 
1823 and Priest the year following, he was launched at once into 
the cares of a large country parish, whose affairs had been left 
very much to themselves. Full scope was here given for his zeal, 
and though Jeft much to himself, and having to rely on his own 
judgment a good deal, his habits of method and self-reliance soon 
brought order out of chaos. Alluding to his isolation from his 
brother clergy owing to their being so few within a walk of his 
Vicarage, he says, “This being left so much to myself was better 
in the end. It accustomed me to reflecting more thoroughly on 
what I had to do, and made me more self-reliant, weighing 
reasons for this or that course of action, and so gradually arriving 
at ‘a right judgment in all things,’ especially in cases in which 
there was any thought of departing from a beaten track.” When 
owing to his first wife’s ill health (he had married in 1844 a 
daughter of the Rev. Edward Andrew Daubeny of Ampney Crucis, 
and brother to Dr. Daubeny, of the Botanical Gardens, Oxford) 
he was obliged, to the great lamentation of his parishioners, 
to give up his living, which he held for nearly 30 years, he said 
with justifiable pride that he ‘‘ never made, or had, so far as he 
was aware, a single enemy in the place.” It was during his 
parochial life in this country parish that the following event 
occurred well known to his friends but perhaps not so generally 
known to others as it ought to be. Dean Peacock then Fellow 
of Trinity, and a friend of Capt. Fitzroy was asked by the latter 
to find him some Cambridge naturalist to go with him in his 
surveying voyage in the “ Beagle.” MHenslow and Jenyns were 
immediately thought of as the most fit men. Henslow refused, 
being a married man with a family and tried to persuade Jenyns 
to go. This must have been a tempting offer indeed! Jenyns 
hesitated at first, took time to consider, and finally declined ; his 
strong sense of duty overmastering his evident inclination to 
accept. He says, “I declined as well on account of my being 
