Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JAMES, THOMAS EVAN (Thomas ap Ieuan; 1824 - 1870), Baptist minister, and author Born 17 March 1824 at Pencraig, Llangoedmor, Cardiganshire, the son of Evan and Mary James. The family moved to Cardigan when he was about 13 years of age. He worked for a while as a farm labourer at Heol-cwm, Verwick, Cardiganshire. He joined the Baptist denomination, and served the chapel of Groes-goch, Pembrokeshire, as unordained minister, 1851-2. He was ordained, and became minister of
JANNER, BARNETT (BARON JANNER), (1892 - 1982), politician editor of the university magazine. Janner's chosen career was the law and he was articled to Sidney, Jenkins and Howell, a Cardiff firm of solicitors, in 1914. He joined the Royal Garrison Artillery as a private on 2 March 1916, but he was not called up until 7 August 1917 and left for France on 24 November. A few months before the end of the war, Janner was a victim of mustard-gas shells and his life
JARMAN, ALFRED OWEN HUGHES (1911 - 1998), Welsh scholar Alfred (Fred) Jarman was born in Bangor 8 October 1911, the eldest of the three children of Thomas Jarman, a shop keeper from Newtown, Montgomeryshire, and his wife Flora. He was educated at Cae Top primary school and Friars' Grammar School Bangor, and then at the University College of North Wales, Bangor where he graduated with first-class honours in Welsh in 1932 and in English the following
JEFFREYS, GEORGE (1st baron Jeffreys of Wem), (1645 - 1689), judge , 1926, 84-6, 96-8). Professionally, and at first politically, he was the bitter rival of Sir William Williams (1634 - 1700) whom he tried to break by a ruinous fine for publishing a libel (1680), rejoicing also in his discomfiture as a prosecutor when the Seven Bishops were acquitted. One of the seven was Jeffreys's protégé,' William Lloyd of S. Asaph, who spoke highly of his patron, as did also
JENKIN, THOMAS JAMES (1885 - 1965), plant breeder and Professor of Agricultural Botany Born 8 January 1885 at Budloy, Maenclochog, Pembrokeshire, younger son of David and Sarah Alice Jenkin. After leaving the elementary school at Garn'rochor he worked on the farm with his parents and brother. He went to U.C.W., Aberystwyth, in October 1907 to attend a short course in agriculture (one term), and returned for a follow-up course of two terms in 1908-09. He went to the Old College
JENKINS, ALBERT EDWARD (1895 - 1953), rugby player was ' Albert ' who inspired them. Although he was not tall (5 foot 8 inches) he weighed over twelve and a half stone. He could sprint, had a powerful tackle, and a kick like a donkey from the hand and from the ground. He could time his pass to his wing perfectly. He was never selfish but he could change the course of the game on his own. Between 1920 and 1928 he won 14 caps for Wales, and could have
JENKINS, DAVID (1912 - 2002), librarian and scholar Celtic Studies (vol. 8, 1925-37, 140-5) on the personal and place-names in the poems of Dafydd ap Gwilym. The subject had been suggested to him by his teacher, T. Gwynn Jones, as one who knew the topography and place-names of the area and the result was a study that places the poet and his associations firmly in the commote of Genau'r Glyn, an important step in reclaiming the historical poet. David
JENKINS, DAVID CYRIL (1885 - 1978), musician Eisteddfod. In 1921/2 he succeeded the light music composer Hubert Bath (1883-1945) as director of music to the London County Council, in which capacity he organised band concerts in London's various parks. This appointment too was taken to fund his work as a composer, and he enjoyed a good measure of success. His compositions, particularly the part-songs, were invariably published and were well-regarded
JENKINS, EVAN (1794 - 1849), cleric and schoolmaster . Their sister Mary married a Calvinistic Methodist, Moses Roderick, and the farm remained in her family until the twentieth century. There are no records of contact between the Anglican brothers who left Wales and their Methodist sister. Evan's father died when he was twelve, as indicated by the short will made on 8 December 1806. As the third son, owning no land of his own, farmer Evan had sunk below
JENKINS, EVAN (1895 - 1959), poet Born 2 May 1895, youngest of the 8 children of Thomas and Margaret Jenkins, Tynewydd, Ffair-rhos, Cardiganshire. His father was a miner who worked in the local lead mines, and farmed his smallholding in his spare time. Evan went to Pontrhydfendigaid elementary school in 1901, and to Tregaron county school in October 1909, but when he left is not recorded. He failed to pass the medical examination
JENKINS, HERBERT (1721 - 1772), early Methodist exhorter, afterwards Independent minister at Howel Harris's call, and also to co-operate with the English Methodists. Indeed, though he had exhorted with great acceptance in Pembrokeshire in 1741 (despite a severe 'dressing-down' by Griffith Jones at Llanddowror) and again in 1743 (Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, iv, 7-8), and though Welsh hymns of his were printed in 1742 and 1744, and a Welsh version of James
JENKINS, JENKIN (d. 1780), tutor of Carmarthen Academy church register - see Y Cofiadur, 1923, 31) he was ordained pastor at Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, where he was also master of one of Dr. Daniel Williams's schools. It is possible (there are other instances) that he had been pastor there, though not yet ordained, since 1743. The Presbyterian Fund Board paid its last contribution to him as pastor at Llanfyllin on 2 June 1760 (Y Cofiadur, 1958, 19). Dr

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