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John Dene of Toronto; a Comedy of Whitehall by Herbert Jenkins Herbert George Jenkins enkins’ parents came from Norfolk and, according to his obituary in The Times, he was educated at Greyfriars College. He began work as a journalist and then spent some 11 years at The Bodley Head before founding his own publishing house in 1912. He remained unmarried and died at the age of 47, on 8 June 1923 after a six-month-long illness, in Marylebone, London(1876 – 8 June 1923) was a British writer and the owner of the publishing company Herbert Jenkins Ltd John Dene comes to England with a great invention, and the intention of gingering-up the Admiralty. His directness and unconventional methods bewilder and embarrass the officials at Whitehall, where, according to him, most of the jobs are held by those “whose great-grandfathers had a pleasant way of saying how-do-you-do to a prince.“ Although Jenkins is best known for his light fiction, his first book was a biography of George Borrow. He was an admi