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William Jennens
English financier · United Kingdom · On the map · Investors · Lived 1701 to 1798 · aged 97
William Jennens (1701-1798), also known as William the Miser, William the Rich, and The Miser of Acton, was a reclusive financier who lived at Acton Place in the village of Acton, Suffolk, England.
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He was described as the "richest commoner in England" when he died unmarried and intestate with a fortune estimated at £2 million, which became the subject of legal wrangles in the Court of Chancery for well over a century despite the fact that all Jennens' real and personal estate had been distributed to his closest living relatives in a relatively short time after his death. The Jennens case is often cited as having provided inspiration for Jarndyce v Jarndyce in Charles Dickens' serialised novel Bleak House.
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