Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JENKINS, DAVID LLOYD (1896 - 1966), writer, poet and schoolmaster contributed lyrics and essays to Cymru and to The Dragon as well as short stories and essays to Welsh Outlook, Y Ford Gron and Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Ceredigion Llundain. He won prizes for essays at the National Eisteddfod in 1942 and 1943. He had been close to winning a chair until, finally, he won the chair at the Llandybïe eisteddfod in 1944 for an ode entitled ' Ofn '. He also translated some songs, e.g
JENKINS, HENRY HORATIO (1903 - 1985), violinist and conductor thousand pieces. At the outbreak of the Second World War he was one of the group of brilliant and available London players picked out by the BBC to form what it called the Salon Orchestra, which broadcast high-quality performances from the comparative safety of Evesham. In 1942 he became conductor of the BBC Midlands Light Orchestra. In 1946 he became conductor of the BBC Variety Orchestra. After the war
JENKINS, ROY HARRIS (1920 - 2003), politician and author graduation, Jenkins's career progressed quickly, often aided by his father's connections in the labour movement (he was MP for Pontypool 1935-1946 and served as Clement Attlee's parliamentary aide during the period) and his own Oxford acquaintances. During the Second World War Jenkins served as an officer on a domestic artillery battery after 1942 before being moved to work as a codebreaker at Bletchley
JOHN, AUGUSTUS EDWIN (1878 - 1961), artist reinstated in 1940, and was awarded the O.M. in 1942 for services to art. Although he did not live permanently in Wales after 1894, he remained deeply attached to his native land, and supported the National Eisteddfod and Royal Cambrian Academy. A major collection of his pictures is held at the National Museum in Cardiff, and his personal papers at the National Library.
JOHN, GEORGE (1918 - 1994), minister (Bapt) and college principal Young Hayden, he began to preach. In 1938 he was admitted to the Baptist College in Bangor as a ministerial student, registering at the same time in the University College of Wales, Bangor. He graduated with honours Welsh in 1941 and in Semitic languages in 1942. He gained a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1945, with New Testament Greek and Church History as his main subjects. He was ordained a Baptist
JOHN, JAMES MANSEL (1910 - 1975), Baptist minster and college professor contributed an historical essay to the volume Sylfeini'r Ffydd Ddoe a Heddiw (1942) which was published by the S.C.M. press in London under the editorship of J. E. Daniel. His name is also seen among the contributors to the Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 1940 (1959). When he died he had just finished editing a volume of essays Welsh Baptist Studies which appeared in June 1976. This was intended to be
JOHNSON, AUBREY RODWAY (1901 - 1985), university professor and Hebrew scholar Old Testament and Modern Study (1951), edited by H. H. Rowley. The other focus of his work was the Old Testament understanding of the individual and the community. This topic was examined in his volumes The One and the Many in the Israelite Conception of God (1942; revised edition 1961) and The Vitality of the Individual in the Thought of Ancient Israel (1949; revised edition 1964). The excellence
JONES, ALFRED ERNEST (1879 - 1958), psychoanalyst and Sigmund Freud's official biographer before being elected a Fellow of his old college in London. Late in his life, he received many honours including the F.R.C.P. (1942), the D.Sc. (Wales) honoris causa, (1954), but long before that he had been elected an honorary member of several foreign psychoanalytical Societies. In February 1917, he married (1) Morfydd Llwyn Owen, and after her death in September 1918, he married (2) Katherine Jökl
JONES, BENJAMIN MAELOR (1894 - 1982), educationalist and author schoolteacher at Dronfield (1915-16), Clitheroe (1916-20) and Woking (1920-36) before his appointment as headmaster of the boys' grammar school, Bala, in 1936. In December 1942 he was appointed director of education for Merioneth, 'with great unanimity', out of 31 applicants. He commenced on his duties in April 1943, and remained in post with distinction until his retirement in July 1960. During his period as
JONES, DANIEL OWEN (1880 - 1951) Madagascar, minister (Congl.) and missionary lannau'r Llyn Mawr (1929) and Am dro i Fadagascar (1950). In 1942 he contributed an article to the quarterly Religion on ' Primitive Cults and Beliefs in Madagascar '. He addressed the Union of Welsh Independents at Ammanford (1927) and Caernarfon (1949).
JONES, DAVID JAMES (Gwenallt; 1899 - 1968), poet, critic and scholar , sonnets and longer narrative poems in his collections of verse, Ysgubau'r Awen (1939), Cnoi Cil (1942), Eples (1951), Gwreiddiau (1959), Y Coed (1969) are more personal and express the poet's deeply held convictions, his attitude to life and a complex personality. Running through his work are the threads of his attachment to Wales and her culture, and his meditation on the nature of evil which threatens
JONES, DILLWYN OWEN PATON (1923 - 1984), jazz pianist local concerts in the evenings. During service in the Navy between 1942 and 1946 he was given the opportunity of performing on the Armed Forces' network. In 1946 he enrolled at Trinity College of Music London to study piano and organ and the following year joined a band led by the drummer Carlo Krahmer, where he played alongside Duncan White and Humphrey Lyttleton. He played at the first Jazz Festival

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