Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JENKINS, JOHN (1656? - 1733), Baptist minister the acknowledged leader of the church. He acquired much prominence as the result of his disputation on the question of baptism with John Thomas (fl. 1689-1710), Congregational minister, of Llwyn-y-grawys, Llangoedmor, in 1691, and became involved in a serious split in his church around 1724-6. It is said that he, in 1718, was the first to receive assistance from the Baptist Fund. He died 3 July 1733
JENKINS, JOHN DAVID (1828 - 1876), cleric, philanthropist Born at Merthyr Tydfil, 30 January 1828, the son of William David Jenkins (died 1834), Castellau Fach, Llantrisant, Glamorganshire, and Maria, widow of Thomas Dyke, druggist, Merthyr Tydfil. He was educated at Taliesin Williams's school at Merthyr, Cowbridge grammar school, and Jesus College, Oxford (B.A. 1850, M.A. 1852, B.D. 1859, and D.D. 1871). While at Oxford he became a good classical and
JENKINS, JOSEPH (1743 - 1819), Baptist minister son of the Evan Jenkins (1712 - 1723 March 1752) who was pastor of Wrexham ' Old Meeting ' for some months in 1737 and again (after a period at Exeter) from 1740 till 1752, and grandson of John Jenkins (1656? - 1733), pastor of Rhydwilym. Joseph was only 9 when his father died, but Thomas Llewellyn saw to his education in London; later, he went to Aberdeen (M.A. 1765, D.D. 1790). He was baptized
JENKINS, Sir LEOLINE (1625 - 1685), civil lawyer, diplomat, benefactor of Jesus College, Oxford of Arches, and soon afterwards he succeeded to that office. After the outbreak of war with the Dutch in 1665 he was appointed to preside over the High Court of Admiralty. Later he was also made judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Jenkins's work as judge of the Admiralty is of great importance in the history of Prize Law, and, along with lord Stowell and Sir Samuel T. Evans, he is entitled
JENKINS, LLEWELYN (1810 - 1878), printer and publisher the printing and publishing of Baptist periodicals, amongst them Greal y Bedyddwyr, Ystorfa y Bedyddwyr, Y Bedyddiwr, Y Gwir Fedyddiwr. He was also responsible for compiling a Baptist handbook in 1843 and 1844. The business was sold in June 1844, and he retired to live at Bryngwyn, Pontnewydd. He was joint author of Cofiant Thomas Morris … Casnewydd ar Wysg, 1847, and of a biography of his father
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

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