Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JACKSON, Sir CHARLES JAMES (1849 - 1923), businessman and collector interests. Vivian Jackson graduated from Oriel College, Oxford, and found a position as an astrophysicist at Imperial College, London. In the autumn of 1927, he married Mary, the daughter of Bertram Roberts of Saltaire, but the marriage was brief. His second wife, whom he married on 10 June 1932, was Maria Stella Wynn, only child of the 5th Baron Newborough, and they had one son. Vivian Jackson was killed
JAMES, EDWARD (1569? - 1610?), cleric and translator , and chancellor of Llandaff in 1606. In 1606 he translated into Welsh Certain Sermons or Homilies, under the title Pregethau a osodwyd allan trwy awdurdod i'w darllein ymhob Eglwys blwyf a phob capel er adailadaeth i'r bobl annyscedig. Gwedi eu troi i'r iaith Gymeraeg drwy waith Edward James … 1606. A reprint of the Homiliau was published by John Roberts of Tremeirchion (1775 - 1829) in 1817 and
JAMES, EDWARD (1839 - 1904), Congregational minister Born at Llanfachraeth, Anglesey, 12 June 1839, the eldest child of John and Margaret James, and brother of O. Waldo James. He became a member at Bodedern in 1853, and started to preach at Tabernacle, Holyhead, in 1858, under the ministry of William Griffith. In 1859, at the request of his intimate friend William Ambrose (Emrys), Portmadoc, he moved to Gorseddau, near Penmorfa, to conduct
JAMES, THOMAS DAVIES (Iago Erfyl; 1862 - 1927), clergyman, and popular preacher and lecturer evening 7 August, when a memorial service was held in Llanerfyl church, every chapel and church in the vale of Banw was closed. In his funeral sermon the Reverend Canon J.R. Roberts, Llanfihangel (son of Ellis Roberts, ' Elis Wyn o Wyrfai') declared that he deserved to be reckoned among the chief stalwarts of the pulpit in Wales, together with the likes of John Elias and 'Williams o'r Wern ' (William
JARMAN, ALFRED OWEN HUGHES (1911 - 1998), Welsh scholar prisons. He was a man of strong convictions who was respected for his unflinching principles. Never an easy conversationalist, he was, nevertheless, good company when he was able to relax with friends, an authority on good food and wines and a regular visitor to France. Fred Jarman married Eldra Roberts in 1943 and they had two daughters. Eldra Jarman, who was proud of her gypsy lineage, was an
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
JEFFREYS, GEORGE (1st baron Jeffreys of Wem), (1645 - 1689), judge Jeffreys's cousin Sir John Trevor (1637 - 1717), another 'protégé.' Bishop Lloyd was, however, disappointed in his hope that as justice of Chester Jeffreys would atone for the slackness of the Denbighshire magistrates (including his nephew Griffith Jeffreys, sheriff 1683) by rigours against local Dissenters; at the Mold assizes of 1682 he quashed proceedings against Philip Henry and let off with a scolding
JEFFREYS, Sir GRIFFITH Acton Hall (d. 1695) - see JEFFREYS, GEORGE
JENKIN, JOHN (Ioan Siengcin; 1716 - 1796), poet and schoolmaster Born at Cwm Du, Llechryd, Cardiganshire, 1716, son of Siencyn Thomas. He learned the boot-maker's craft from his father and followed it at Cardigan until 1754 when he was persuaded by Griffith Jones of Llanddowror to go to Nevern to open a Welsh school. In 1780 this became an English school, but he continued to be its master until at least 1793. He was taught the art of poetry by his father but
JENKINS, DANIEL (1856 - 1946), schoolmaster and devotee of Welsh literature and music Born 7 November 1856, son of Griffith and Catherine Jenkins, Pentrefelin, Nancwnlle, Cardiganshire. He was educated at Bwlch-y-llan primary school, Holt Academy, and Bangor Normal College. He was appointed headmaster of Cilcennin school in 1877, and Llanfair Clydogau in 1878, both in Cardiganshire, and Llan-y-crwys school, Carmarthenshire, in 1897 where he remained until his retirement in 1920
JENKINS, DAVID (1912 - 2002), librarian and scholar was the result of many years' original research. It won a Welsh Arts Council Prize and the University of Wales Ellis Jones Griffith Prize. The illustrated Bro a Bywyd T. Gwynn Jones appeared in 1984. The T. Gwynn Jones biography was followed in 1978 by Erthyglau ac Ysgrifau Llenyddol Kate Roberts, an edited collection of the author's literary essays with an important introduction. On the eve of his
JENKINS, HERBERT (1721 - 1772), early Methodist exhorter, afterwards Independent minister at Howel Harris's call, and also to co-operate with the English Methodists. Indeed, though he had exhorted with great acceptance in Pembrokeshire in 1741 (despite a severe 'dressing-down' by Griffith Jones at Llanddowror) and again in 1743 (Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, iv, 7-8), and though Welsh hymns of his were printed in 1742 and 1744, and a Welsh version of James

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