Early Life
Son of Dr. Theobald Jennings and Lady Eleanor Saul, he was born on 19 October 1751 at his mothers residence at Sauls Court, Dublin. His father, a prominent physician, descended from an ancient Irish family 'Mac sheoinín' (meaning "son of little Sean", a subset of the great Burke family) which had always been strongly attached to the Irish Catholic religion, and opposed to the interests of England. His father was of Polaniran (Ironpool), Tuam, County Galway - see Soraca Jonin - left Ireland in 1738 and settled in the town of Tonnay-Charente in the south west of France with his wife. The latter, finding that she was about to become a mother, left France for Dublin in 1751 in order that her child might be born in his native land. Young Jennings (he was to better known in France as Kilmaine from the territory in County Mayo which had been the ancient patrimony of his family) was reared in Dublin with his relatives. So deep was the animosity of his father to the church and government as established in Ireland, that in 1762 he took Charles to France. Kilmaine was educated in Tonnay-Charente, quickly becoming very proficient in the French language
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