Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Robert Jenkin
Robert Jenkin,
NON-JURING DIVINE,
Was born at Minster in 1656. He was educated at the King's School, Canterbury, and St. John's College, Cambridge, of which he was made a Fellow. He subsequently became Margaret Professor of Divinity and Precentor of Chichester Cathedral. This office, however, he resigned at the revolution, as he scrupled to take the oaths to King William. Being ejected also from his Fellowship for the same cause at the accession of George I., he became mentally afflicted, and died at the house of his brother in Norfolk in 1727. He wrote several treatises, the best known of which were "The Reasonableness and Certainty of the Christian Religion," published 1696-7, and "An Examination of the authority of General Councils." The former went through several editions.
[See "Chalmers' Biographical Dictionary."]