Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JENKINS, DANIEL (1856 - 1946), schoolmaster and devotee of Welsh literature and music , Elizabeth, daughter of William and Ann Williams of Llanfair Clydogau. He died at Pentrefelin, the farmhouse where he was born, 18 November 1946.
JENKINS, DAVID (1912 - 2002), librarian and scholar David Jenkins was born in Blaenclydach, Rhondda Valley, 29 May 1912, one of the five children of Evan Jenkins and his wife Mary (née James). Like many in the coalmining valleys of Glamorganshire who had emigrated there from rural Wales but retained their connections with their home areas, Evan Jenkins had come to Blaenclydach from Aberaeron, Ceredigion, after spending a few years in London, and
JENKINS, DAVID ARWYN (1911 - 2012), barrister and historian of Welsh law volume, Tân yn Llŷn: hanes brwydr gorsaf awyr Penyberth, was published in 1937 in the wake of the arson at the site of the bombing school and the subsequent trial of the defendants Saunders Lewis, D. J. Williams and Lewis Valentine. An English language translation by Ann Corkett was published as A Nation on Trial: Penyberth 1936. His literary efforts continued thereafter, with his history of the Welsh
JENKINS, DAVID CYRIL (1885 - 1978), musician Cyril Jenkins was born in Dunvant, Swansea, on 9 October 1885, the son of John Jenkins, a coal miner, and his wife Mary; the family moved to Cilfynydd when Cyril was a child. His first music teacher was David Lloyd of Tonypandy, but he was educated at the Pontypridd County Grammar School and took lessons in music theory with Harry Evans and organ lessons with W. G. Alcock. While still in his
JENKINS, EVAN (1794 - 1849), cleric and schoolmaster . Their sister Mary married a Calvinistic Methodist, Moses Roderick, and the farm remained in her family until the twentieth century. There are no records of contact between the Anglican brothers who left Wales and their Methodist sister. Evan's father died when he was twelve, as indicated by the short will made on 8 December 1806. As the third son, owning no land of his own, farmer Evan had sunk below
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, JOHN (Ifor Ceri; 1770 - 1829), cleric and antiquary are in the N.L.W. His main interest was the collection of old airs and melodies, some of which were published by Maria Jane Williams of Aberpergwm in Ancient Welsh Music, and many by Bardd Alaw in his Welsh Harper.
JENKINS, JOHN (1779 - 1853), Baptist minister, theologian, editor, and publisher Born 28 November 1779 in Llangynidr parish, Brecknock, son of Jenkin and Mary Jenkins. The only education he had was a short term at a night-school, and he taught himself to read and write. He began to preach in 1800 and was ordained at Llangynidr, May 1806. In 1809 he was inducted at Hengoed, Glamorganshire, where he remained for the rest of his life, travelling all over Wales on mission, and to
JENKINS, JOSEPH (1886 - 1962), minister (Meth.) and author periodicals. He married Mary Catherine Williams, Dafen, and they had a son and daughter. He died 21 April 1962.
JENKINS, JOSEPH (1859 - 1929), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Tan-y-chwarel, Cwmystwyth, Cardiganshire. According to the christening register of Cwmystwyth chapel, he was born 2 November 1859, and registered at Lampeter, 3 December 1859. His father was John Jenkins, lead miner, and his mother was Mary (née Howells). In his youth he was apprenticed to John Lloyd, draper, of Pentre, Rhondda, and became a member of Nazareth chapel where he began to
JENKINS, KATHRYN (1961 - 2009), scholar and hymnologist was for 'classical' Welsh hymnody and the work of William Williams (Pantycelyn) in particular. Her PhD dissertation was on his place in the history of the Welsh hymn and over the years she published a stream of articles on aspects of his work. In the anthology of his hymns that she prepared in 1991 on the bicentenary of his death, Anthem Angau Calfari, she was able to combine her scholarship and her
JENKINS, ROBERT THOMAS (1881 - 1969), historian, man of letters, editor of Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig and the Dictionary of Welsh Biography mischievous fashion in the room of (Sir) Ifor Williams. In 1937 he became editor of the history and law section of the Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, in 1938 assistant editor of Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig and in 1947, after the death of Sir J.E. Lloyd, joint-editor with Sir William Llewelyn Davies. The Welsh version appeared first in 1953 and when its English counterpart, The Dictionary of Welsh

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