Sir James Christopher Jenkins, KCB, KC (Hon) (born 20 May 1939) is a British lawyer and retired parliamentary draftsman.[clarification needed][1]
Born in 1939, Jenkins attended Lewes County Grammar School and Magdalen College, Oxford,[2] graduating with a first-class BA in jurisprudence in 1961.[3] He worked at Slaughter and May between 1962 and 1967,[2] and was admitted a solicitor in February 1965.[4] He joined the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel in 1967, and was promoted to be a Parliamentary Counsel in 1978, the Second Parliamentary Counsel in 1991 and then First Parliamentary Counsel in 1994, serving until retirement in 1999.[2] Jenkins was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1987 Birthday Honours,[5] and promoted to Knight Commander in the 1999 Birthday Honours.[6] He was made an honorary Queen's Counsel in 1994.[2]
References
edit- ^ Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2090. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
- ^ a b c d "Jenkins, Sir (James) Christopher", Who's Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 27 January 2019.
- ^ "University News", The Times, 29 July 1961, p. 3.
- ^ The Solicitors' and Barristers' Directory and Diary, vol. 1 (1986), p. 35.
- ^ The London Gazette, 12 June 1987 (supplement no. 50948), p. 3.
- ^ The London Gazette, 12 June 1999 (supplement no. 55513), p. 3.
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