Frederick Jenkins

Frederick Jenkins (1847-1930) was a local politician active in the Tottenham area.

Born in Abergaenny, Monmouthshire, he was the son of two schoolteacher parents who moved around South Wales. By the 1860s they had moved to Kentish Town and his father was working an ironmonger's porter.

By the 1870s Jenkins had established himself as an artists' colourman. He subsequently moved into the manufacture of lithographic materials and heliography, an early form of photography. His occupation was also sometimes entered as a publisher.

By the 1890s he was resident in St Ann's Road, Tottenham. He represented the Tottenham, St Ann's Division on Middlesex County Council from 1895-1912, when he was elevated to be a County Alderman. In June 1920, while he was chairman of the Education Committee, he was involved in a traffic accident. His leg was broken when the taxi in which he was travelling collided with a tram.