Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JENKINS, WALTER (d. 1661), early Welsh Quaker Born in the mansion of Pant, Llanfihangel Ystum ('Ystern') Llewern, Monmouthshire, son of Thomas Jenkins, squire and rector of that parish (died 1649). The son met George Fox, so Fox says, in a conference in Leicestershire in 1655. When in 1657 Fox visited South Wales, ' Justice Jenkins ' was with him at a meeting in a church somewhere between Brecon and Pontypool. He suffered for his Quakerism
JENKINS, Sir WILLIAM ALBERT (1878 - 1968), shipbroker and politician 1938 and his close association with the Order of St. John was recognised by his appointment to the presidency of the Swansea Order of St. John Council, F.I.C.S., and his appointment as Knight of St. John. He was made Knight Class 1 Order of Dannebrog (Denmark) in 1933; Gold Cross Royal Order George I (Greece) in 1938. France awarded him the Order of Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1949. He died
JEREMY, JOHN (DAVID) (1782 - 1860), preacher and schoolmaster
JEREMY, WALTER DAVID (1825 - 1893), barrister-at-law
JOHN ap JOHN (1625? - 1697), the apostle of the Quakers in Wales Called Siôn ap Siôn by Ellis Pugh in his Annerch i'r Cymru (1721); born at Pen-y-cefn in the township of Coed Cristionydd, Ruabon. He joined the Puritans in the days of the Commonwealth and became a member of the congregation at Wrexham which was under the care of Morgan Llwyd. On 21 July 1653 he and another man journeyed on Morgan Llwyd's behalf to Swarthmore, Lancashire, to meet George Fox, the
John David - see JONES, DAVID JOHN
JOHN, AUGUSTUS EDWIN (1878 - 1961), artist first child, David, was born in 1902 and here too the artist met John Sampson, the University Librarian and expert on gypsies, who taught him Romany. Augustus John and his family subsequently spent periods travelling through Wales and England in gypsy caravans, and this inspired much of his work before World War I. In the autumn of 1902 he met Dorothy McNeill, another friend of Gwen John; he gave her
JOHN, BRYNMOR THOMAS (1934 - 1988), Labour politician charisma. But it was easy to underestimate him, and he had a witty felicity in debate. He married on 6 August 1960 Anne Pryce Hughes, the daughter of David L. Hughes. They had one son and one daughter. They lived at 'Yalehaven', Church Village, near Pontypridd. His hobby was watching rugby football. He died on 13 December 1988 at St Thomas's hospital, London after suffering a heart attack and was
JOHN, DAVID (1782? - 1853), Unitarian minister, a Chartist, and, by trade, a smith , where on Sundays and the evenings of week-days, subjects to help workmen in their occupations were taught. His sons, DAVID JOHN and MATTHEW JOHN, were also prominent Chartists; the former, a fiery soul, published, with Morgan Williams, the Welsh Chartist paper Udgorn Cymru, 1840-2, and the English Advocate and Merthyr Free Press, 1840, of which only five numbers appeared. He represented the Chartists
JOHN, DAVID, Chartist - see JOHN, DAVID
JOHN, GEORGE (1918 - 1994), minister (Bapt) and college principal George John was born in Pen-rhiw in the parish of Eglwys Wen, Pembrokeshire, on 8 November 1918, the son of William and Margaret John. He had one sister, Mattie, and two half-sisters from his widowed father's first marriage. He was educated in the local primary school and in Cardigan County School. He was baptised in Bethabara Baptist church and there, under the ministry of the Reverend Lewis
JOHN, GRIFFITH (1831 - 1912), missionary Born 14 December 1831 at Swansea. A member of Ebenezer Congregational church, Swansea, 1840, he was educated at the Memorial College, Brecon, and at Bedford. He offered himself to the Madagascar field, but was directed to China. He married Jane, daughter of David Griffiths, Madagascar (1792 - 1863). Ordained at Ebenezer, Swansea, 5 April 1855, he arrived at Shanghai in September. In 1857 he

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