For navy captain, see William Jennens (Royal Navy officer).
William Jennens (possibly Jennings) (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. He was described as the "richest commoner in England" when he died unmarried and intestate with a fortune estimated at £2 million,[1][2][dead link] which became the subject of legal wrangles (Jennens v Jennens) in the Court of Chancery for well over a century despite the fact that all Jennen's real and personal estate had been distributed to his closest living relatives in a relatively short time after his death.[3] 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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^Polden, Patrick (2003). "Stranger than Fiction? The Jennens Inheritance in Fact and Fiction. Part 1: The Jennens Fortune in the Courts". Common Law World Review. 32 (3): 218–219 – via Sage Journals.
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