Roger Soame Jenyns (24 April 1904 – 14 October 1976), who usually wrote his name simply asSoame Jenyns was a British art historian, known as an expert on East Asian ceramics. The eldest son of Roger William Bulwer Jenyns (1858 – 1936), J.P., of Bottisham Hall, Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, by his wife Winifred Pike, daughter of Arthur Pease, M.P., of Hummersknott, Darlington, Roger Soame Jenyns was educated at Eton and at Magdalene College, Cambridge (B.A. 1926). In 1926 he joined the Hong Kong Civil Service.In Hong Kong, he became one of the valuable contributors to the newly established journal, The Hong Kong Naturalist. His articles would often touch on the cultural role of South China's animals and plants.