at
Coronation Park, Delhi. He was a son of
Sir John Lewis Jenkins and his wife Florence Mildred, second daughter of
Sir Arthur Trevor, and a brother of
David Jenkins, Baron Jenkins. He was educated at
Rugby School and
Balliol College, Oxford. He joined the
Indian Civil Service in 1920 and held various posts in the Punjab commission and Central Secretariat. In 1937 he was appointed
Chief Commissioner of Delhi and in 1943 he was made secretary to the
Viceroy and Governor-General of India. He served as the last
Governor of the Punjab in
British India from 8 April 1946 to August 1947. Due to boycotts engulfing the Punjab, on 2 March 1947
Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana resigned as Prime Minister of the province and Jenkins, as Governor, assumed direct control of the Punjab until the day of partition, 14 August 1947. ==References==