18 MEMOIR OF FLEEMING JENKIN 



End of his In 1845, while still lieutenant, Charles Jenkin 

 acted as Admiral Pigot's flag captain in the Cove 

 of Cork, where there were some thirty pennants ; 

 and about the same time, closed his career by an 

 act of personal bravery. He had proceeded with 

 his boats to the help of a merchant vessel, whose 

 cargo of combustibles had taken fire and was 

 smouldering under hatches ; his sailors were in 

 the hold, where the fumes were already heavy, 

 and Jenkin was on deck directing operations, when 

 he found his orders were no longer answered from 

 below : he jumped down without hesitation and 

 slung up several insensible men with his own hand. 

 For this act, he received a letter from the Lords of 

 the Admiralty expressing a sense of his gallantry ; 

 and pretty soon after was promoted Commander, 

 superseded, and could never again obtain employ- 

 ment. 

 The In 1828 or 1829, Charles Jenkin was in the same 



jacksons. watch with another midshipman, Robert Colin 

 Campbell-Jackson, who introduced him to his family 

 in Jamaica. The father, the Honourable Robert 

 Jackson, Custos Rotulorum of Kingston, came of 

 a Yorkshire family, said to be originally Scotch ; 

 and on the mother's side counted kinship with 

 some of the Forbeses. The mother was Susan 

 Campbell, one of the Campbells of Auchenbreck. 

 Her father Colin, a merchant in Greenock, is said 

 to have been the heir to both the estate and the 



