Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JAMES, THOMAS (1834 - 1915), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and schoolmaster
JAMES, THOMAS (d. 1751), early Methodist exhorter sometimes called 'Thomas James of Builth,' but mostly 'Thomas James of Crickadarn,' i.e. Erwood, Brecknock - and in 1744 Richard Tibbott refers to 'Thomas James's house at Erwood.' Nothing is known of him before he began exhorting, in 1741. At the Watford Association (January 1743) he was set apart as an itinerant, and in April (again at Watford) was made overseer of Societies in the Wye Valley
JAMES, THOMAS (1827 - 1899), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 18 July 1827 at Llansawel, Carmarthenshire, son of Thomas and Sarah James. In 1842 he moved with his father to Dowlais, became a member of Hermon chapel, and started to preach. He was educated at Ffrwd-fâl school, Trevecka, and Glasgow University - where he graduated M.A. In 1861 he was ordained at the Newcastle Emlyn Association and settled at Llanelly, where, for a time, he kept a school
JAMES, THOMAS (Llallawg; 1817 - 1879), clergyman, antiquary, and eisteddfodwr
JAMES, THOMAS DAVIES (Iago Erfyl; 1862 - 1927), clergyman, and popular preacher and lecturer Son of Thomas James and his wife; born at Manafon, Montgomeryshire, 13 August 1862. Soon afterwards the family moved to Wyddi-goed, Llanfechain, but his parents died when he was young and he was brought up by his grandparents at Garth Isaf, Rhosybrithdir, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant. He began preaching with the Methodists at Rhosybrithdir, went to Didsbury College, Manchester, and after passing his
JAMES, THOMAS EVAN (Thomas ap Ieuan; 1824 - 1870), Baptist minister, and author , Merthyr. He also collected and edited an anthology of verse, Bwrdd y Beirdd, yn cynnwys Detholion Prydyddol o waith Prif Feirdd yr Oes, and edited a booklet on Christmas Evans called Christmasia neu rai o nodweddiadau … Christmas Evans, gan Bleddyn (D. Owen, Brutus).
JAMES, WILLIAM (1833 - 1905), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 15 March 1833 to Thomas and Anne James, Tyn-rhos, Llanfihangel-genau'r-glyn, Cardiganshire. He was at the local grammar school, but left at 15 to be a shepherd-boy on his father's farm. The father intended him to become a tanner (at Aberayron) but the leaders of Garn C.M. church, impressed by his diligence in Sunday-school work and with congregational singing, urged that he should train for
JAMES, WILLIAM (1848 - 1907), Unitarian minister, schoolmaster, and public worker Born at Camnant-fach, Pontshân, Llandysul, 13 April 1848. He was educated at Pontshân school under Thomas Thomas and went to Carmarthen Presbyterian College at the age of 15 - Carmarthen (1863-6), Manchester New College, London (1866-9), Edinburgh (1869-70); he graduated B.A. London in 1871. He was an assistant master under T. Thomas (1870-1), and under G. Heaviside at Coventry, 1872. In 1873 he
JARDINE, JAMES (d. 1737), Independent minister Born at Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire, son of a successful farmer. He became a member at Henllan or Rhydyceisiaid, Carmarthenshire. In 1720 he was a minister at Denbigh. He married the daughter of his predecessor Thomas Baddy. He died in 1737 and was buried at Whitchurch, Denbigh. David Jardine was his son.
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
JARMAN, ELDRA MARY (1917 - 2000), harpist and author nature and the same love of freedom and of the countryside, and looking back at this period, Eldra felt that it was one of the happiest of her life. There was space here for her to develop as a harpist: in 1930, Nansi and her friend Edith Evans ('Telynores Eryri') had established Côr Telyn Eryri (The Snowdonia Harp Choir) and Eldra was given the opportunity to join this multifaceted group as a harpist
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

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