Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JENKINS, JENKIN (d. 1780), tutor of Carmarthen Academy . Abraham Rees and the painter Thomas Jones (1742 - 1803) were pupils of his at Llanfyllin (Jeremy, Presbyterian Fund, 88). As a pastor, Jenkins is not well spoken of. In November 1759 he joined Samuel Thomas as tutor at Carmarthen Academy and at the grammar school connected with it. It may indeed be believed that Jenkins was at his best as a schoolmaster, and particularly as a classical teacher, for when
JENKINS, JOHN (GWILI) (1872 - 1936), poet, theologian, and man of letters Born at Hendy, Pontardulais, Carmarthenshire, 8 October 1872, son of John and Elizabeth Jenkins. He began preaching (with the Baptists) in 1891, and after a short period at Gwynfryn (Ammanford), the school kept by Watcyn Wyn (Watkin Hezekiah Williams), went in 1892 to Bangor and thence (1896) to University College, Cardiff; at both alike, preaching and poetry seemed to him more important than
JENKINS, KATHRYN (1961 - 2009), scholar and hymnologist personal devotion. A collecton of her articles, Cân y Ffydd (ed. Rhidian Griffiths) was published posthumously in 2011, a collection that contains the lecture she gave in Halifax which reveals the new and theoretical approach that she was beginning to develop in her studies of hymnody. Kathryn Jenkins married Alan Jones in 1993; there were no children from the marriage. She died suddenly at her home in
JENKINS, ROBERT THOMAS (1881 - 1969), historian, man of letters, editor of Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig and the Dictionary of Welsh Biography Apêl at hanes), and from 1922 he contributed without intermission to Y Llenor until 1951. The Cardiff years were exceedingly fruitful. In 1928 there appeared a history of Wales in the 18th cent, Hanes Cymru yn y Ddeunawfed Ganrif (in the series entitled Y Brifysgol a'r Werin), which won him a secure place amongst Welsh historians, and in 1930 Yr Apêl at hanes, Ffrainc a'i Phobl and Gruffydd Jones
JOB, JOHN THOMAS (1867 - 1938), Calvinistic Methodist minister, hymn writer, and poet married (1), 1894, Etta Davies, Zenobia House, New Quay, by whom he had three children, all of whom died young, and (2), 1915, Catherine Jones Shaw, Ty'ncelyn, Bryneglwys, Denbighshire; there were two children of the second marriage, of whom one, a son, survives. J. T. Job died 4 November 1938.
JOHN WYN ap MAREDUDD (d. 1559), politician - see WYNN
JOHN, EWART STANLEY (1924 - 2007), theologian, Welsh Congregationalist minister, college professor and principal acclaimed by Principal R. Tudur Jones as “a notable essay”. He derived immense satisfaction from his academic role, enjoying a happy rapport with staff and students alike, and teaching a subject which was close to his heart and in which he was totally immersed. He made a significant contribution to the work of the Faculty of Theology, serving as Dean of Faculty for the allotted period of three years. With
JOHN, MARY HANNAH (1874 - 1962), singer and revivalist do.' In January 1905 May John was working in North Wales with the young Calvinistic Methodist minister W. Llewelyn Lloyd. She then worked in Bristol with John Cynddylan Jones, where they shared responsibility for leading meetings in the Broadmead Wesleyan Chapel. She also worked there with Thomas 'Awstin' Davies, the well-known Revival reporter. By May 1905, May John was part of a large group of
JOHN, WALTER PHILLIPS (1910 - 1967), minister (B) 1967. In 1940 he married married Nansi, only child of Morgan A. Jones, minister (B) at Whitland, Carmarthenshire, and grand-daughter of Daniel Jones, his predecessor. Walter P. John achieved prominence early in his career as a cultured preacher, whose services were in great demand in his own and other denominations in England and Wales. He also mastered the art of broadcasting, and was the first
JOHNS, DAVID (1796 - 1843), one of the London Missionary Society missionaries in Madagascar Son of John Jones of Llain, Llanina, Cardiganshire. He was a member of the Independent church at Penrhiwgaled. After being trained at Neuadd-lwyd Academy, Newtown Academy, and at Gosport, he was ordained to the mission field, 16 February 1826. He married Mary, daughter of William Thomas (1749 - 1809), Independent minister at Bala. He took out to Madagascar a printing press and spinning-jenny 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 family, smiths, poets, musicians and preachers Cilie, They farmed Cilie, a farm of over 300 acres above the sea between Llangrannog and New Quay, Cardiganshire. Jeremiah Jones, the father (9 April 1855 - 19 February 1902) was a smith from a family of smiths in northern Pembrokeshire, a family which had, according to tradition, a close relationship to the poets of Cwmdu, near Newcastle Emlyn (see Siencyn Thomas, and John Jenkin). Jeremiah and his

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