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JENKINS, EVAN (1794 - 1849), cleric and schoolmaster doubt learnt English, Latin and Greek under the headmaster Rev. John Williams. It is likely that after some years at ysgol Ystrad Meurig, Evan followed in his brother's footsteps to Chelsea to teach the Classics until he reached the age of twenty-three, the earliest age that a man could be ordained. The Cheyne House Academy was now run by the Felix brothers, one of whom had surely been at school with
JENKINS, EVAN (1799 - 1877), cleric movement broke out locally (1839), he came out strongly against it; he preached a sermon (17 November 1839) which he afterwards expanded into a pamphlet, Chartism Unmasked, 1840 -this went to at least sixteen editions and caused ' a kind of feud ' between him and John Guest, who disagreed with some of its statements and refused to circulate it among his workmen. The contents of the pamphlet are
JENKINS, HERBERT (1721 - 1772), early Methodist exhorter, afterwards Independent minister Humphreys's pamphlet in defence of Methodism (Atteb i bob dyn a ofynno rheswm am y gobaith sydd ynom), in 1745, he was in effect lost to Wales from 1743 on. His work lay rather in England, and his colleagues were John Cennick and the English Methodists; he was elected member of the English Conference in March 1744 (Tabernacle conference book in N.L.W. - extracts printed in Y Drysorfa, 1936, 159-62), and he
JENKINS, ISAAC (1812 - 1877), Wesleyan minister , Llanidloes 1839, Brecon 1842, Merthyr 1843, Carmarthen 1845, S. Davids 1848, Brecon 1851, Ebbw Vale 1854, Cardiff 1856, Aberdare 1859, Cowbridge 1862, Swansea 1865, Merthyr 1868, and Cardiff 1871. He was secretary of the Welsh province of South Wales, 1843-66, and its chairman, 1866-74. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh Hughes (1778 - 1855). He retired in 1874 and died at Merthyr Tydfil 25 August 1877
JENKINS, JOHN (1779 - 1853), Baptist minister, theologian, editor, and publisher , TITUS JENKINS (1804 - 1834) was a Baptist minister at Ramsey, Huntingdon; JOHN JENKINS (1807 - 1872) went to Brittany as a missionary; and Llewelyn Jenkins (1810 - 1878) was a publisher, editor, and author. John Jenkins made two subsequent marriages; he died 5 June 1853 and was buried in Hengoed chapel cemetery.
JENKINS, JOHN (Ifor Ceri; 1770 - 1829), cleric and antiquary
JENKINS, JOHN (1808 - 1884), barrister and publicist
JENKINS, JOHN (1821 - 1896), editor and translator Born in November 1821, at Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, son of Edward Jenkins, flannel manufacturer. He was educated at Shrewsbury and articled to John Owen, solicitor, Newtown. In 1842 he returned to Llanidloes and settled there. He held many legal appointments and numerous appointments in local government and educational affairs. He published a number of legal and other pamphlets including Law
JENKINS, JOHN (GWILI) (1872 - 1936), poet, theologian, and man of letters Born at Hendy, Pontardulais, Carmarthenshire, 8 October 1872, son of John and Elizabeth Jenkins. He began preaching (with the Baptists) in 1891, and after a short period at Gwynfryn (Ammanford), the school kept by Watcyn Wyn (Watkin Hezekiah Williams), went in 1892 to Bangor and thence (1896) to University College, Cardiff; at both alike, preaching and poetry seemed to him more important than
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 (1807 - 1872), missionary - gweler JENKINS, JOHN
JENKINS, JOHN DAVID (1828 - 1876), cleric, philanthropist

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