28 MEMOIR OF FLEEMING JENKIN 



CHAPTER II 



1833-1851 



Birth and Childhood — Edinburgh — Frankfort-on-the-Main 

 — Paris — The Revolution of 1848 — The Insurrection — 

 Flight to Italy — Sympathy with Italy — The Insurrec- 

 tion in Genoa — A Student in Genoa — The Lad and his 

 Mother. 



Birth and Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin (Flceming, 

 pronounced Flemming, to his friends and family) 

 was born in a Government building on the coast of 

 Kent, near Dungeness, where his father was serving 

 at the time in the Coastguard, on March 25, 1833, 

 and named after Admiral Fleeming, one of his 

 father's protectors in the navy. 



His childhood was vagrant like his life. Once he 

 was left in the care of his grandmother Jackson, 

 while Mrs. Jenkin sailed in her husband's ship and 

 stayed a year at the Havannah. The tragic woman 

 was besides from time to time a member of the 

 family ; she was in distress of mind and reduced in 

 fortune by the misconduct of her sons ; her destitu- 

 tion and solitude made it a recurring duty to 

 receive her, her violence continually enforced fresh 

 separations. In her passion of a disappointed 



