The Jennens Family and Charles Dickens

Nowadays, any local history, it seems, must have a mention of Charles Dickens. Acton can claim a link which is far more convincing than most, in that 'Bleak House' was inspired by the famous Jennens case:

"The case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce was suggested by the celebrated proceedings arising from the intestacy of one William Jennings, who died in 1798." — Oxford Companion to English Literature