William Jennings, an English miser, born in 1701, died in 1797. His father was an aide-de-camp to the duke of Marlborough and on terms of intimacy with "William III., who officiated as godfather at the baptism of the son. In early life William Jennings was a page to George I. On attaining his majority he retired to a magnificent country seat in Suffolk, left unfinished by his father, where he passed the greater part of his life. He never attempted to complete the building, but lived on the basement floor in a style of penury rivalling that of his neighbor John Elwes, equally celebrated for parsimony. The remainder of his life was devoted to the accumulation of property, and at his death he possessed upward of £1,000,000. Like Elwes ho also frequented Brookes's and other gambling clubs in London, but less for the purpose of play than to lend money to the unlucky at. enormous interest; and so profitable was this business that, until too infirm to pursue it, he was in the habit of spending the fashionable season in London. He died a bachelor, leaving a will sealed but not executed; and the disposition of his immense property has ever since formed a subject of inquiry among those of his name.