Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JAMES, Sir WILLIAM MILBOURNE (1807 - 1881), Lord Justice Born 1807 at Merthyr Tydfil, son of Christopher James, a prosperous provision merchant, uncle of C. H. James. He was educated at the school kept by John James of Gellionnen (1779 - 1864), and at Glasgow University, and was called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn in 1831. He practised for some years on the South Wales circuit but later confined his activities to his extensive Chancery practic e. In
JARMAN, ALFRED OWEN HUGHES (1911 - 1998), Welsh scholar Branch of the International Arthurian Society and one of the International Vice-presidents; he also served as a permanent member of the Eugène Vinaver Trust. He was Sir John Rhys Fellow at Jesus College Oxford in 1975-76. He retired from his Chair in 1979 and was awarded a Leverhulme Scholarship in 1979-81. A.O.H. Jarman's main fields of research were the Myrddin/Merlin legend, the origins and
JARMAN, ELDRA MARY (1917 - 2000), harpist and author Eldra Jarman was born on 4 September 1917 in Aberystwyth, daughter of Ernest France Roberts and his wife Edith (née Howard). Both her parents were of Roma descent, her father the grandson of John Roberts (Alaw Elwy) and her mother the daughter of Eldorai Wood, who had dual Irish and Roma heritage. Following an increasing tendency towards integration among the Roma, Eldra's family had settled in
JAYNE, FRANCIS JOHN (1845 - 1921), bishop Born 1 January 1845, second son of John Jayne of Pant-y-beiliau, Lanelli, Brecknock, and Elizabeth his wife. He was educated at Rugby School and Wadham College, Oxford, where he took three first classes and won several University prizes. He took his B.A. in 1868 and M.A. in 1870. He was elected Fellow of Jesus College in 1868 and tutor of Keble College in 1871. He was ordained deacon and priest
JEFFREYS, GEORGE (1st baron Jeffreys of Wem), (1645 - 1689), judge Born at Acton, Wrexham, on 15 May 1645, the sixth son of John Jeffreys and his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Ireland of Bewsey, Lancashire ('a very pious good woman ' according to her son). His grandfather JOHN JEFFREYS (died 1622), chief justice of the Anglesey circuit of the Great Sessions, who had first adopted the family surname, laid the foundations of Acton estate by expanding and
JEFFREYS, JOHN (1718? - 1798), musician Born at Llanynys, Denbighshire, c. 1718. A contemporary of John Williams (Ioan Rhagfyr), he was a good musician. His hymn-tune ' Hero ' appeared in Haleliwia Drachefn (G. Harries) and a ' Traethdon ' (chant) in Y Cerddor Cymreig, August 1867; he is better known, however, for the hymn-tune called ' Dyfrdwy.' He died in 1798.
JEFFREYS, JOHN GWYN (1809 - 1885), conchologist
JEFFREYS, JUSTINA (1787 - 1869), gentlewoman returning to his native Scotland. By 1791 Susan Leslie was in another unmarried relationship with a Scottish doctor, John Wright, by whom she bore two sons. Justina's life must have changed radically at about the age of six when she was sent to grow up as an only child in Wales, in the care of Edward Scott (1752-1842) who probably already knew her since he had been Captain McMurdo's fellow officer in
JEFFREYS, THOMAS TWYNOG (1844 - 1911), poet Born at Tal-sarn, Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire, 25 February 1844. From the village school he went, at about 14, to work on a family farm, Pwllygerwyn. In 1864, he became a shop-assistant at Aberdare, and became active in the literary and religious life of that town. In 1869 he married Ellen, daughter of John Evans (known as Cymro Du), an official in the Aber-nant iron-works; and when Evans moved
JEHU, THOMAS JOHN (1871 - 1943), geologist
JENKIN, JOHN (Ioan Siengcin; 1716 - 1796), poet and schoolmaster was greatly influenced by the Gramadeg of John Roderick. He addressed poems both in the classical and in the free metres, to the gentry and, more particularly, to his patron, Thomas Lloyd of Cwm-gloyn. He visited the Llanidloes eisteddfod, 1772, and made the arrangements for the Cardigan eisteddfod, 1773. He knew Ieuan Brydydd Hir (Evan Evans, 1731 - 1788) and wrote an englyn intended for Lewis
JENKINS, ALBERT EDWARD (1895 - 1953), rugby player Born 11 March 1895 at Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, he became the town's idol. His talent on the rugby field flowered when he played as full back for the 38th Division during World War I, but it was as a centre for Llanelli club that he came into prominence. Llanelli was the most successful club for a period during the 1920s, with men like Dai John, Ernie Finch and Ifor Jones in its ranks, but it

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