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JAMES, JOHN (bu farw 1705), Congregational minister He was educated at Ystrad Wallter or at Swansea and ordained at Llan-y-bri, 1688. He was given £2 by the Presbyterian Board, 16 January 1690, to encourage him in his work at Crug-glas (Pantêg); it is confirmed, in the minutes of the ' Common Fund ' or the Presbyterian Fund Board, 1690-2, that he was at Crug-glas, that he was a freeholder, and that he had received £1 from his congregation in
JAMES, WILLIAM (1848 - 1907), Unitarian minister, schoolmaster, and public worker Born at Camnant-fach, Pontshân, Llandysul, 13 April 1848. He was educated at Pontshân school under Thomas Thomas and went to Carmarthen Presbyterian College at the age of 15 - Carmarthen (1863-6), Manchester New College, London (1866-9), Edinburgh (1869-70); he graduated B.A. London in 1871. He was an assistant master under T. Thomas (1870-1), and under G. Heaviside at Coventry, 1872. In 1873 he
JARDINE, DAVID (1732 - 1766), Independent minister and head of an academy Wales, 27 February 1757, and was appointed head of the new Academy at Abergavenny, 7 March 1757, with Benjamin Davies (1739? - 1817) as his assistant. Jardine continued to minister to the church at Abergavenny and to be head of the Academy until he died 1 October 1766. He married the daughter of Lewis Jones, Bridgend, Glamorganshire (1702? - 1772). David Jardine was an excellent teacher and many of
JAYNE, FRANCIS JOHN (1845 - 1921), bishop Born 1 January 1845, second son of John Jayne of Pant-y-beiliau, Lanelli, Brecknock, and Elizabeth his wife. He was educated at Rugby School and Wadham College, Oxford, where he took three first classes and won several University prizes. He took his B.A. in 1868 and M.A. in 1870. He was elected Fellow of Jesus College in 1868 and tutor of Keble College in 1871. He was ordained deacon and priest
JEHU, DAVID (1812 - 1840), missionary in Sierra Leone under the Wesleyan Missionary Society . Having laboured only six months in Africa, he died 1 July 1840.
JENKINS, DAVID ARWYN (1911 - 2012), barrister and historian of Welsh law Dafydd Jenkins was born in London on St David's Day, 1 March 1911, the son of William Jenkins, a bank clerk who had been born in Bermondsey but who had, and retained, Welsh roots (he was of Cardiganshire stock and was Secretary of the Welsh Jewin Chapel in London) and Elizabeth Jenkins who was born in Aberystwyth. He was christened David, but later adopted the Welsh form Dafydd. His sister, Edith
JENKINS, DAVID CYRIL (1885 - 1978), musician music, delivered in a lecture in Manchester on 30 September 1921 and reported in both the English and Welsh editions of the Manchester Guardian (1 Oct 1921), that tainted his reputation with the Welsh music establishment. His feelings on the subject were apparent as early as 1913 in an article in the journal Wales (3 March 1913: 163-4), but the 1921 lecture was more focused and strident. He denounced
JENKINS, EVAN (1794 - 1849), cleric and schoolmaster priest by the Bishop of London, and married Eliza in Brussels in May. They had four sons and three daughters. On 1 January 1827 Evan was appointed by the British lessees of the Chapel Royal to be their chaplain for one year, where he was to remain until his death over twenty years later. Evan and Eliza took in pupils at their home, which is mentioned by a newspaper correspondent in 1835, who described
JENKINS, Sir LEOLINE (1625 - 1685), civil lawyer, diplomat, benefactor of Jesus College, Oxford proverb ' Nid wrth ei big y mae adnabod cyffylog ' (You can't tell a woodcock by its beak). Jenkins died 1 September 1685, and was buried in the chapel of Jesus College, of which he has justly been described as the second founder. It was he who placed the college on its feet after the Restoration, and the present library was built by him at his own expense. By his will he left to the college his real
JENKINS, ROBERT THOMAS (1881 - 1969), historian, man of letters, editor of Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig and the Dictionary of Welsh Biography spent the greater part of his life; there he reached his full maturity and there the recollection of him is at its sweetest and most fragrant. He died 11 November 1969, his remains being buried in Bangor cemetery. After a national appeal, the R.T. Jenkins memorial lecture was founded in the college in 1972. He married twice: (1) in 1907 to Mary Davies, Aberystwyth (who died in 1946) and (2) in 1947 to
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
JOB, JOHN THOMAS (1867 - 1938), Calvinistic Methodist minister, hymn writer, and poet married (1), 1894, Etta Davies, Zenobia House, New Quay, by whom he had three children, all of whom died young, and (2), 1915, Catherine Jones Shaw, Ty'ncelyn, Bryneglwys, Denbighshire; there were two children of the second marriage, of whom one, a son, survives. J. T. Job died 4 November 1938.

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