Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JAMES, ISAAC (1766 - 1840), Calvinistic Methodist preacher Rees averred that he was 'a great preacher, though few thought so'. He died, aged 74, 14 April 1840, and was buried at Llanfihangel-genau'r-glyn.
JAMES, JAMES (Iago Emlyn; 1800 - 1879), Congregational minister and poet Born in the parish of Bettws Ifan, near Cardigan, in 1800, the son of David and Mary James. By November 1809 the parents had died, and he was cared for by his grandmother at Dinas, near Newcastle Emlyn. For some years he was engaged in business in various places, including Bristol. In 1840 he entered the college at Carmarthen, and subsequently served pastorates at Llanelly, Cardiff, Newport, and
JAMES, JOHN (1872 - 1934), director of education in Glamorganshire He was the son of David James, Baptist minister and his wife Mary, sister of ' Myfyr Emlyn ' (Benjamin Thomas), the poet-preacher. They had four sons and four daughters. His brother was Defynnog. He had a brilliant academic career after having worked for a time in a grocer's shop in the Rhondda valley, Glamorganshire. At 16, as the holder of an open scholarship, he went to University College
JAMES, JOHN (1779 - 1864), the first Unitarian minister in Cardiganshire, and schoolmaster Unitarian academy at Neath with David Davis (1778 - 1846) but nothing came of this plan. He translated into Welsh Dr. Priestley's catechism, 1805; and two dissertations, the first on the words Redemption, Ransom, Purchase … and the second on Words used in the New Testament in relation to Sacrifices, 1807. In 1808-11 he published Ymofyniad am Sylfaen yr Athrawiaeth o Haeddiant Crist in four volumes. In
JAMES, JOHN (1777 - 1848), Baptist minister, hymn writer, bookbinder, and printer Born at Aberystwyth 29 August 1777, the eldest of eight children of James David John and Elizabeth Jones. He was baptized there on 27 March 1796, and became a member of Bethel church. He was apprenticed to a shoemaker, but started to preach in September 1799, and after a course of study of some months at Cardigan and Aberystwyth, he became co-pastor, with Samuel Breeze, of Bethel church and its
JAMES, PHILIP (1664 - 1748), early Baptist minister Born near Pontardulais, and educated (so it is said) in the school kept by Robert Morgan (1621 - 1711). His parents resented his Dissent, and c. 1685 he went to Liverpool, in service to a Baptist medical man named Ebenezer Fabius (died 1691); he then practised medicine, and also preached, near Lichfield. According to David Jones (Hanes y Bedyddwyr yn Neheubarth Cymru, 524), he was for a while
JAMES, THOMAS (Llallawg; 1817 - 1879), clergyman, antiquary, and eisteddfodwr to Yr Haul and Bye-Gones; he was also a frequent visitor to the eisteddfod in Wales where he often acted as adjudicator. He was brother to David James (Dewi o Ddyfed). He died 3 August 1879 and was buried at Netherthong.
JAMES, WILLIAM (1836 - 1908), Calvinistic Methodist minister 1902-3, and of the General Assembly in 1895, and delivered the ' Davies Lecture ' (Christianity the Goal of Nature) in 1902. Besides this, he published a number of articles in periodicals, and collaborated in a handbook on the Gospels, 1888-90, and (with John Morgan Jones, 1838 - 1921) in a biography of his predecessor at Bethania, David Saunders (1831 - 1892), published in 1894. He was an eminent
JAMES, WILLIAM (1848 - 1907), Unitarian minister, schoolmaster, and public worker received a call to take charge of the Old Meeting House at Aberdare during the illness of Rees Jenkin Jones. Six years later he received a call to become minister of the churches at Llwyn-rhyd-owen, Bwlch-y-fadfa, and Llandysul, but owing to ill health, he remained for only eight years. He left the pulpit to enter business, but did not cease to preach. It is only necessary to mention that he kept a
JARDINE, DAVID (1732 - 1766), Independent minister and head of an academy Wales, 27 February 1757, and was appointed head of the new Academy at Abergavenny, 7 March 1757, with Benjamin Davies (1739? - 1817) as his assistant. Jardine continued to minister to the church at Abergavenny and to be head of the Academy until he died 1 October 1766. He married the daughter of Lewis Jones, Bridgend, Glamorganshire (1702? - 1772). David Jardine was an excellent teacher and many of
JARDINE, JAMES (d. 1737), Independent minister Born at Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire, son of a successful farmer. He became a member at Henllan or Rhydyceisiaid, Carmarthenshire. In 1720 he was a minister at Denbigh. He married the daughter of his predecessor Thomas Baddy. He died in 1737 and was buried at Whitchurch, Denbigh. David Jardine was his son.
JEFFREYS, THOMAS TWYNOG (1844 - 1911), poet his house for more than fifteen years before his death, on his birthday, in 1911. He published in 1904 a small volume of his poetry, Tannau Twynog; and in 1911 a memorial volume, Twynog, appeared, edited by Dyfed (Evan Rees). Thomas Ieuan Jeffreys-Jones was his grandson.

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