JARDINE, DAVID (1732 - 1766), Independent minister and head of an academy

Name: David Jardine
Date of birth: 1732
Date of death: 1766
Parent: James Jardine
Gender: Male
Occupation: Independent minister and head of an academy
Area of activity: Education; Religion
Author: John Dyfnallt Owen

Born at Denbigh, son of James Jardine. He was a student at the Carmarthen Academy, 1752-4, and was ordained at Abergavenny, 1754, where he also started a school. Because of a controversy over the question of doctrine taught at the Carmarthen Academy the Congregational Board (London) refused to give that institution a financial grant; Jardine was recommended as tutor of the Board's Academy in Wales, 27 February 1757, and was appointed head of the new Academy at Abergavenny, 7 March 1757, with Benjamin Davies (1739? - 1817) as his assistant. Jardine continued to minister to the church at Abergavenny and to be head of the Academy until he died 1 October 1766. He married the daughter of Lewis Jones, Bridgend, Glamorganshire (1702? - 1772). David Jardine was an excellent teacher and many of his students became prominent amongst Congregationalists.

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Published date: 1959

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