Lancelot Shadwell
Jennings
Male
New Zealand
1888-03-10
Takaka, Nelson, New Zealand
1916-09-15
The Somme, France
From The Marlborough Express, 25 September 1916
Captain Lancelot Shadwell Jennings, who is reported to have been killed in action in France, was a nephew of the Venerable Archdeacon Thomas Samuel Grace, of Blenheim. The deceased officer had a distinguished scholastic and athletic career. Entering Nelson College with a scholarship from The Brightwater School in 1901, he rose to the position of Head of the School, and in 1906 won a Junior University Scholarship, which he took up at Canterbury College.
While at Nelson, he played in the first fifteen and was captain of the cricket team, also acting as captain of the Nelson representative team against Taranaki and Wellington in 1906. Captain Jennings gained the degrees of Master of Arts and Bachelor of Science at Canterbury College, and represented that institution in the inter-collegiate tennis tournament tie. He was also a successful competitor in the New Zealand tennis arena, attaining to championship honours.
He had been on the teaching staff of the Waitaki High School for some years prior to enlisting. In 1915, he married Miss Bella Dytes MacIntosh Cross, M.A., another distinguished student of Canterbury College.
1908 - 1914
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18
13
1908 - Intercollegiate Championships New-Zealand (Amateur)
Round 2
Lancelot Shadwell Jennings 1 *
Gordon Desmond Seay
6-1
6-1
6-2
Quarterfinals
Lancelot Shadwell Jennings 1 *
Clifford John Dickie
6-2
6-1
6-2
Semifinals
Lancelot Shadwell Jennings 1 *
Alexander Gladding Paul Wallace
6-3
6-3
7-5
Final
Geoffrey Morton Ollivier 1 *
Lancelot Shadwell Jennings
4-6
6-4
6-4
6-1
Round 1
Lancelot Shadwell Jennings 1 *
Charles B. Webster
6-2
7-5
Round 2
Lancelot Shadwell Jennings 1 *
T.C. Simpson
6-1
6-0
Quarterfinals
Lancelot Shadwell Jennings 1 *
Digory Warne (Warne) Pearse
6-1
7-5
Semifinals
Lancelot Shadwell Jennings 1 *
Stanley Powdrell
w.o.
Final
Geoffrey Morton Ollivier 1 *
Lancelot Shadwell Jennings
6-4
9-7
4-6
3-6
6-1
Semifinals
Lancelot Shadwell Jennings 1 *
Final
William Goss 1 *
Lancelot Shadwell Jennings
4-6
7-5
6-3
Round 2
Lancelot Shadwell Jennings 1 *
L. McIsaac
6-0
6-1
Quarterfinals
Lancelot Shadwell Jennings 1 *
Stanley J. Smith
6-0
6-3
Semifinals
Clifford John Dickie 1 *
Lancelot Shadwell Jennings
1-6
6-3
6-4
Round 2
Lancelot Shadwell Jennings 1 *
Arthur Edwin Powdrell
6-3
6-2
Quarterfinals
Frank Fisher 1 *
Lancelot Shadwell Jennings
3-6
6-3
6-3
Semifinals
Lancelot Shadwell Jennings 1 *
Mr. Gower
6-5
4-6
6-3
Final
Lancelot Shadwell Jennings 1 *
H.W. Bundle
6-3
3-6
6-1