Family and Situation
Mr. Jennings is the deceased husband of Mrs. Jennings and the father of Charlotte Palmer and Lady Middleton.
When describing Mrs. Jennings’ home in Mayfair, the narrator tells us that her husband “had traded with success in a less elegant part of the town,” meaning that Mr. Jennings may well have started in Cheapside or similar until he brought in more money. It is unclear whether he lived to see the purchase of the house on Upper Berkeley Street.
Character
When getting old Constantina wine to relieve Marianne Dashwood’s distress, Mrs. Jennings says “My poor husband! how fond he was of it! Whenever he had a touch of his old colicky gout, he said it did him more good than any thing else in the world.”
As Charlotte Palmer clearly takes after her mother, it is possible that Lady Middleton takes after her father and that he was as snooty and reserved as she. There is virtually no evidence for or against this in the text, however.
