Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JANNER, BARNETT (BARON JANNER), (1892 - 1982), politician 'Barney' Janner was born in Lucknick, Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire, on 20 June 1892, the second child of Joseph Vitum-Janner (c.1864-1932) and Gertrude Zwick (c.1864-1902). Within nine months of his birth, his father took the family to Barry, Glamorganshire, where Joseph Janner became a furniture dealer, first at 31 Holton Road and later in the High Street. Besides their eldest
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
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, Sir GRIFFITH Acton Hall (d. 1695) - see JEFFREYS, GEORGE
JEFFREYS, JUSTINA (1787 - 1869), gentlewoman author Thomas Love Peacock. In this milieu Justina grew up. She is believed to be the model for the accomplished and unconventional Anthelia, and Edward Scott for her father Sir Henry Melincourt in Thomas Love Peacock's 1817 novel of that name. This is Peacock's description of Anthelia's education: In this romantic seclusion Anthelia was born. Her mother died giving birth. Her father, Sir Henry
JENKINS, DAVID (1848 - 1915), musician student at Aberystwyth College under Joseph Parry, and graduated Mus.Bac. at Cambridge in 1878. Shortly after the University of Wales had received its Charter in 1893, he was appointed lecturer in the newly-formed Music Department at Aberystwyth, and in 1910 was made Professor, a post which he held until his death. During his active professional life he became a prominent figure at the national and
JENKINS, DAVID (1912 - 2002), librarian and scholar 1992 and 1993. He attended Ardwyn grammar school, Aberystwyth and then, in 1932, he became a student at the University College of Wales Aberystwyth where he graduated in Welsh Literature in 1935. As the Sir John Williams Research Student 1937-39 he began his research on the life and work of the poet Huw Morys (Eos Ceiriog, 1624-1709). He published a valuable article in The Bulletin of the Board of
JENKINS, DAVID (1582 - 1663), judge memorial tablet. He married Cecil, daughter of Sir Thomas Aubrey, of Llantrithyd, on 7 September 1614, and had four sons and one daughter, but the male line became extinct in the 18th century. His great-grand-daughter Cecil, heiress of the Hensol estate, married Charles Talbot, Lord Chancellor from 1731 to 1737, who took the title of lord Talbot of Hensol. Jenkins graduated at Oxford in 1600 and was
JENKINS, DAVID CYRIL (1885 - 1978), musician Welsh music as insular, backward and ignorant of modern trends (he cited Sibelius as a composer virtually unknown in Wales). He further argued that this insularity was directly caused and sustained by undue deference to a few composers, particularly Joseph Parry, who was a target of his discontent throughout his life and to whom he was reported to have referred as a 'ready imitator of commonplace and
JENKINS, EVAN (1794 - 1849), cleric and schoolmaster Evan (Evan described Peter Felix as his best friend in a letter of 1823). But it seems that the Rev. Joseph Allen, then at Battersea, graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, changed Evan's mind. He examined Evan and recommended him to Trinity College in December 1817 as a sizar. Evan began his BA degree in October 1818, at the age of twenty-three, graduating in spring 1822 (MA in 1829). It is
JENKINS, HENRY HORATIO (1903 - 1985), violinist and conductor the Academy he was taught violin by Hans Wessley, viola by Lionel Tertis and conducting by Sir Henry Wood. Wood became something of a mentor and engaged him as a violinist in his Queen's Hall Orchestra, but by this time he was capitalising on his experience in the silent movies bands of the Amman Valley by moonlighting with various London variety pit bands. By the start of the Second World War he
JENKINS, HERBERT (1721 - 1772), early Methodist exhorter, afterwards Independent minister Born in Mynydd-islwyn parish, Monmouthshire. According to Bradney (Hist. of Mon., I, ii, 442), his father was Herbert Jenkins and his grandfather that William Jenkins of Aberystruth parish who was curate (and kept school) at Trevethin (Pontypool) from 1726 till 1736. It may be that the parents had 'dissented'; tradition asserts that they were attached to the church of Edmund Jones, and certainly

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