Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, WILLIAM, Presbyterian minister, and lexicographer Hardly anything is known about him (see the rather confused correspondence in Ymofynydd, December 1887, 268-70, 275-6, January 1888, 19-20, and February 1888 43-4), except that he hailed from Cefn-gwili, Llanedy, Carmarthenshire, and according to W. D. Jeremy was at Carmarthen Academy 1768-72. At the beginning of 1776 he was minister at Sherborne, but in March he accepted a call to
GWILI - see JENKINS, JOHN GWILI
JENKINS, JOHN (GWILI) (1872 - 1936), poet, theologian, and man of letters which hardly anyone before him (excepting maybe Owen Thomas) had worked systematically. A list of his other writings in prose and verse, with a selection of his sermons, will be found in his biography by E. Cefni Jones, 1937. In 1931 he was elected archdruid. He died 16 May 1936 and was buried in the graveyard of the old Independent Meeting-house at Llanedy, Carmarthenshire. Gwili was a jovial man
JONES, JOHN TYWI (1870 - 1948), Baptist minister and journalist college where Gwili (John Jenkins, and E Cefni Jones were his contemporaries. He was ordained at Llanfair and Pentraeth, Anglesey, in 1897 and remained there until 1906 when he received a call to Peniel, Glais, Swansea Valley. He ministered there energetically until the beginning of 1935. From an early age he had contributed occassionally to Tarian y Gweithiwr published in Aberdare and in some sense a
MORGAN, HERBERT (1875 - 1946), minister (B), university lecturer, and director of extra-mural studies responsibilities. His last work, Reason and religion, 1946, is a liberal theologian's reaction to the teaching of Karl Barth, which was gaining ground in some circles in Wales. He was a biblical scholar but this aspect of his learning is represented only by a Welsh commentary, with John Gwili Jenkins on portions of the Book of Isaiah, 1908, and articles in Y Geiriadur Beiblaidd (1926). He married Mrs. James, a
NICHOLAS, THOMAS EVAN (Niclas y Glais; 1879 - 1971), poet, minister of religion and advocate for the Communist Party enrolled at Gwynfryn School, Amanford, under Watkin Hezekiah Williams, 'Watcyn Wyn' (1844-1905) and John Gwili Jenkins (1872-1936), an advocate of the broad and liberal theological views associated with the New Theology of R.J. Campbell. T.E. Nicholas acknowledged his immense debt to Gwili Jenkins for opening for him the world of Christian Socialism, though he had read for himself accounts of the work of
THOMAS, PHILIP EDWARD (1878 - 1917), poet England, Feminine Influence on the Poets, Borrow, Swinburne, Marlborough, are a few titles from these years. Overwork and literary frustration increased his melancholy and told on his health. Among his friends were 'Dad' Uzzell, W. H. Davies, Gordon Bottomley, Gwili (John Jenkins, 1872 - 1936), and Edward Garnett. In July 1915 he enlisted in the Artists' Rifles, was transferred to the Artillery later
WATKIN, MORGAN (1878 - 1970), scholar, university professor French language', ibid. (1965); 'The chronology of the Black Book of Carmarthen on the basis of its Old French phenomena', ibid. (1965); 'The Black Book of Chirk and the orthographia gallica anglicana, the chronology of the Black Book of Chirk on the basis of its Old French graphical phenomena', ibid. (1966). He married Lucy Jenkins, Hendy, Pontarddulais (a sister to John (Gwili) Jenkins at Tabernacl
WATKIN, WILLIAM RHYS (1875 - 1947), Baptist minister Moreia, Llanelli from 1910 until his death. He was the editor of Seren Gomer from 1921 to 1930, and from 1933 until 1947 (with John Gwili Jenkins for a year, and then with David Hopkins as co-editors). He was a notable administrator - he was President of his cymanfa, President of the Union of Welsh Baptists, 1939-40, and Chairman of the Baptist Missionary Society, 1944-45. He contributed many articles

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