Walter Jekyll, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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English clergyman, later planter in Jamaica
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About Walter Jekyll
- Walter Jekyll (27 November, 1849, Dorking – 17 February, 1929, Bower Hill, Hannover), Jamaica was an English clergyman who renounced his religion and became a planter in Jamaica, where he collected and published songs and stories from the local African-Caribbean community.Jekyll was born at 2 Grafton Street, Mayfair, London, the seventh of the seven children of Captain Edward Joseph Hill Jekyll, an officer in the Grenadier Guards, and his wife Julia Hammersley.
- His sister was the gardener Gertrude Jekyll.
- He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge.
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