John Edward Jenkins (2 July 1838 – 4 June 1910), known as Edward Jenkins or J. Edward Jenkins, was a barrister, author and Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was best known as an author of satirical novels, and also served as the Agent-General of Canada, encouraging emigration to the new Dominion. He contested several parliamentary elections, but won only one, and sat in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1880.
Jenkins was born in Bangalore, Mysore, India, the eldest son of Rev. Dr. John Jenkins (1813–1898), a minister of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society from 1837 to 1841. His father moved to Canada in 1847 as a Methodist minister, before becoming a Presbyterian minister in Philadelphia in 1853, and minister of a Presbyterian Church in Montreal, Canada, from 1865. His mother was Harriet Shepstone of Mysore.
Edward's uncles included David James Jenkins, the MP for Penryn and Falmouth, and Rev. Ebenezer Jenkins, the chairman of Wesleyan Indian Missions.
Edward Jenkins may refer to:
The Very Revd Thomas Edward Jenkins (known as Edward; 14 August 1902 – 28 August 1996) was an eminent Anglican priest.
Jenkins was educated at St David's College, Lampeter. He was ordained in 1925 and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Llanelli. From 1934 to 1938 he was Rector of Begelly. From then until 1946 he was Vicar of Christ Church, Llanelli after which he was Rural Dean of Lampeter. He was Vicar of Cardigan from 1955 to 1957 when he became Dean of St David's, a post he held for 15 years.