Geraint Jennings

Geraint Jennings (born 13 May 1966)^[1] is a Jersey,UK member of Municipality of St Helier and linguist.^{[citation needed]}

Geraint Jennings
Municipality of St Helier, Jersey
Incumbent
Assumed office Dec 1996
Constituency	St Helier, Jersey
Majority	Unopposed
Personal details
Born	13 May 1966 St Helier, Jersey
Political party	Jersey Green Party

Biography

Jennings was born in Saint Helier, Jersey.^[1] He was educated at Victoria College Preparatory and Christ's Hospital. He graduated from University College, Oxford with a Master of Arts (Oxon) in Modern Languages. Further studies include a Licenciate Diploma in TESOL from Trinity College, London. He is fluent in Russian. His interests include art and illustration. He is the Procureur du Bien Public for the parish of St Helier.

Jèrriais

He is a teacher of Jèrriais and strongly active in the Société Jersiaise, which is a group dedicated to maintaining Jersey's language, history and culture.

He created Les Pages Jèrriaises, and currently maintains them. He is the resident Jèrriais reporter for the Jersey Evening Post and Parish Matters.

In 2007, he won first place "for the best short story in Norman" at the Fête Nouormande in Bricquebec for his story entitled "La frontchièthe".^[2] He won first place again in 2008 for his story entitled "Feu et feunmée".^[3]

He has worked on the translation of Lewis Carroll's story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which was published in 2012, as L'Travèrs Du Mitheux Et Chein Qu'Alice Y Dêmuchit.^[4]

Politics

Jennings became politically active as a member of the Jersey Green Party. After it disbanded he acted as an independent.

Parish municipality

He was elected to the Municipality of the Parish of St Helier in 1996 as a member of the Roads Committee and was re-elected in 1999, 2002 and 2005. In his role he masterminded the parish cycling strategy.

Candidacy for Jersey elections

Jennings has stood for election in the States of Jersey on seven occasions, but not elected:

Date	Election	District	Party	Votes
1992	Election for Deputy	Trinity
October 1993	Senatorial election	(Island-wide)	Green Party	2,793[5]
November 1993	By-election for Deputy	St Helier district 3&4
November 1996	Election for Deputy	St Helier district 3&4		568[5]
February 1999	Senatorial by-election	(Island-wide)		440[5]
October 2002	Senatorial election	(Island-wide)		4,667[1]
November 2002	Election for Deputy	St Helier district 3&4		486[6]