Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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 ARWYN (1911 - 2012), barrister and historian of Welsh law Dafydd Jenkins was born in London on St David's Day, 1 March 1911, the son of William Jenkins, a bank clerk who had been born in Bermondsey but who had, and retained, Welsh roots (he was of Cardiganshire stock and was Secretary of the Welsh Jewin Chapel in London) and Elizabeth Jenkins who was born in Aberystwyth. He was christened David, but later adopted the Welsh form Dafydd. His sister, Edith
JOAN (d. 1237), princess and diplomat . Joan's role as diplomat is best documented for the 1220s and early 1230s. In 1220 Joan and her son by Llywelyn, Dafydd, were taken into protection by the English Crown, possibly in anticipation of Llywelyn's acknowledgment of Dafydd as his legitimate and chosen heir. The pronouncement was endorsed by the king at Shrewsbury in May. It was also a decision supported and recognised by the papacy. In 1222
JOAN (d. 1237), princess attachment to her appears to have been genuine. When she died at the palace of Aber on 2 February 1237 her body was conveyed across the Menai and buried in a new cemetery near the manor of Llan-faes, where Llywelyn founded a Franciscan friary in her memory. She was the mother of Dafydd ap Llywelyn. A stone coffin, removed from Llan-faes at the Dissolution, and now preserved in S. Mary's church at Beaumaris
JOHN, EWART STANLEY (1924 - 2007), theologian, Welsh Congregationalist minister, college professor and principal Stanley John was born on the outskirts of Goodwick, Fishguard, in the parish of Llanwnda, on 20 May 1924, the sixth of the seven children of Dafydd (a deacon and precentor in the church at Rhosycaerau) and Mary Ann John, Bwlch y Rhos (his birthplace), and later Ffynnon Clun and Brynhyfryd. He was educated at Goodwick elementary school and Fishguard County School, where his English master, D. J
JOHNES, ARTHUR JAMES (1809 - 1871), county court judge a prize offered by the Cymmrodorion Society for an essay on The Causes which in Wales have produced Dissent from the Established Church. A second edition (expanded) appeared in 1832, and a third in 1870. In 1834 he published some translations of poems by Dafydd ap Gwilym. Johnes took an active part by voice and pen in resisting the scheme (c. 1838) to unite the sees of Bangor and S. Asaph and
JOHNS, DAVID (fl. 1569-1586), cleric and poet period, e.g. that of Siôn Dafydd Rhys to the grammar he published in 1592. The voluminous notes in the manuscript are also important. Two of his prose translations from Latin are to be found in Peniarth MS 159 under the titles 'Gweddi Saint Awgwstin' and 'Dengran gwahaniaeth kristnogion y byd.' Some writers have confused him with 'Syr' Thomas Jones.
JONES, DAFYDD (Dafydd Siôn Siâms; 1743 - 1831), musician, poet, and book-binder
JONES, DAFYDD (1711 - 1777), hymn-writer to live c. 1763 and died 30 August 1777; he was buried at Crug-y-bar. He is remembered as a hymn-writer. A hymn written by him appeared in one of the parts of Williams of Pantycelyn's Aleluia, 1747. He began to translate into Welsh the psalms and hymns of Isaac Watts and these were published in two volumes: Salmau Dafydd, 1753 (2nd imp., 1766) and Hymnau a Chaniadau Ysprydol, 1775. He also
JONES, DAFYDD RHYS (1877 - 1946), schoolmaster and musician Born 10 June 1877 in Maes Comet, Drofa Dulog, Patagonia, one of the 10 children of Dafydd Jones and Rachel (née Williams) his wife. The father was among the first group to land on the beaches of Patagonia. He came from the Blaenporth area, Cardiganshire, of the same family as John Jones, Blaenannerch (1807 - 1875). His mother's family had emigrated from Bryn-mawr to the Welsh settlement in Rio
JONES, DAVID (1708? - 1785) Trefriw, poet, collector of manuscripts, publisher, and printer Little is known about his birth and early years. His father's name is given as Siôn ap Dafydd in NLW MS 476E and NLW MS 3107B, and his mother's as Jane ferch Elizabeth Rowland in B.M. Add. MS. 14888, and Jane ferch Dafydd ap Sion in NLW MS 3107B. He married Gwen ferch Richard ap Rhys (NLW MS 3107B), but the date of his marriage is uncertain; Trefriw parish records note a marriage between a David
JONES, DAVID (1736 - 1810), Methodist cleric short booklets; (a) Llythyr oddi wrth Dafydd ab Ioan y Pererin at Ioan ab Gwilim (Trevecka, 1784) which contains a short memoir of Christopher Bassett, and (b) A Funeral Sermon … of the late Countess Dowager of Huntingdon (London, 1791).

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