Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JENKINS, ROBERT THOMAS (1881 - 1969), historian, man of letters, editor of Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig and the Dictionary of Welsh Biography , and to her husband, William Dafis, a coalmerchant. Profoundly influenced by the town of Bala, its craftsmen and his recollections of notable inhabitants, its sturdy Welsh culture, the old grammar school and the denominational colleges, it was thus natural for him often to rejoice that he had been baptized by Thomas Charles Edwards. He was firmly grounded in Latin by John Cadwalader Evans, headmaster
JENKINS, THOMAS DAVID SLINGSBY - see SLINGSBY-JENKINS, THOMAS DAVID
JENKINS, THOMAS JOHN PRICE (1864 - 1922), physician; Wales and London-Welsh Rugby centre three-quarter, and founder of the London-Welsh Football Club
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
JENKYN, THOMAS WILLIAM (1794 - 1858), Independent minister and professor of theology
JOB, JOHN THOMAS (1867 - 1938), Calvinistic Methodist minister, hymn writer, and poet Born 21 May 1867 at Sunny Hill, Llandebïe, Carmarthenshire, the youngest of the five children of John and Mary Job - he was also a nephew of Thomas Job, Conwil. He was educated at Llandebïe National School, Watcyn Wyn's school at Gwynfryn (Ammanford), and Trevecka College, and held pastorates at Nazareth, Aberdare, 1893-8, Carneddi, Bethesda, Caernarfonshire, 1898-1917, Pentour, Fishguard, 1917
JOHANNES WALLENSIS (fl. c. 1260-1283), Franciscan friar and writer de Paenitentia, Summa Iustitiae, Moniloquium (on vices and virtues and their rewards), Legiloquium (on the Ten Commandments), some sermons, and perhaps some commentaries. John is also said to have begun the popular Manipulus Florum or Flores Doctorum, which was finished by Thomas of Ireland. These manuals are mostly compilations. They reveal no depth or originality of thought and show no interest
JOHN, BRYNMOR THOMAS (1934 - 1988), Labour politician
JOHN, EDWARD THOMAS (1857 - 1931), industrialist and politician
JOHN, EWART STANLEY (1924 - 2007), theologian, Welsh Congregationalist minister, college professor and principal . Williams, instilled in him a profound love for Wales and the Welsh language. However, as he himself acknowledged, no-one exerted greater influence upon him in these formative years than his minister at Ebenezer, Goodwick, the Reverend Irfon Samuel, who invited him to commence preaching and to consider ordination into the Christian ministry, work for which he was subsequently trained at the Presbyterian
JOHN, HENRY (1664 - 1754), hymnist number of Welsh works, at the instigation of Miles Harry. A second edition appeared at Carmarthen in 1773 and a fifth in 1817, but the hymns are more remarkable for their piety than for their poetry. His 'Can am Briodas' was printed in William Secker's Y Fodrwy Briodas (Trevecca, 1791). Benjamin Francis wrote an elegy to his memory, and Joshua Thomas in his Hanes y Bedyddwyr (1778), 249, gives high
JOHN, JAMES MANSEL (1910 - 1975), Baptist minster and college professor J. Mansel John was born in Trecynon, Aberdare, on 22 April 1910. He was the eldest of the three children of Thomas David John and his wife, Jennet (née George). Beryl was the second of their three children and Esmor the third. His father was an overman in a local colliery. The family were faithful and active members of the Baptist church meeting in Heol-y-felin and it was there that Mansel John

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