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JAMES, THOMAS (1834 - 1915), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and schoolmaster Born at Verwick near Cardigan; his father (a blacksmith) was an Anglican, his mother a Calvinistic Methodist. At about 20, desiring to enter the ministry, he went to a school at Blaenannerch nearby, and thence (1858) to Trevecka. In 1862 he won a Dr. Daniel Williams scholarship, which took him to Glasgow, where he graduated in 1866. After spending some months at Edinburgh, he returned in 1867 to
JAMES, THOMAS (bu farw 1751), early Methodist exhorter - some of his reports on these are printed in Methodistiaeth Cymru, i, 165, iii, 315, 331. Howel Harris in his diaries often mentions James, and the Trevecka collection (N.L.W.) contains ten letters of James's to Harris, a letter of his to Harris's future wife, and one to Whitefield, together with seventeen letters from Harris to James, and one from Anne Williams (Harris) to him; the correspondence
JAMES, THOMAS (Llallawg; 1817 - 1879), clergyman, antiquary, and eisteddfodwr Born 21 August 1817 at Manordivy, north Pembrokeshire. Ordained deacon in 1840 (and priest, 1841), his first curacies were in Much Wenlock and Derby. Persuaded by Lewis Jones (Almondbury) he went to Yorkshire in 1846 and was vicar of All Saints, Netherthong, for a period of thirty-three years. He remained single until 1870 when he married Jane, daughter of William Hammett, Appledore Court, Devon
JAMES, THOMAS DAVIES (Iago Erfyl; 1862 - 1927), clergyman, and popular preacher and lecturer evening 7 August, when a memorial service was held in Llanerfyl church, every chapel and church in the vale of Banw was closed. In his funeral sermon the Reverend Canon J.R. Roberts, Llanfihangel (son of Ellis Roberts, ' Elis Wyn o Wyrfai') declared that he deserved to be reckoned among the chief stalwarts of the pulpit in Wales, together with the likes of John Elias and 'Williams o'r Wern ' (William
JARMAN, ALFRED OWEN HUGHES (1911 - 1998), Welsh scholar 1936. He was an extra-mural tutor on a year by year contract in Bangor between 1936 and 1946 when he was appointed lecturer in the Welsh department of the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff. He was subsequently promoted to Senior Lecturer and in 1957 he was appointed to the chair of Welsh and Head of department in succession to G. J. Williams. He was Dean of the Faculty of
JARMAN, ELDRA MARY (1917 - 2000), harpist and author a style which reflected her family's history of six generations of harpists. Specific names to the tunes which she played were rare, and as an accompanist she made use of improvisatory methods. Her work with Bryn-mawr Dancers, a group founded by Jessie and Hector Williams in 1952, for instance, saw her play a string of tunes until she fell on one which suited the dancers' needs, since neither she
JEFFREYS, GEORGE (1st baron Jeffreys of Wem), (1645 - 1689), judge point of making him viscount Wrexham and earl of Flint (October 1685). On 26 March 1688 he had the distasteful duty of conveying to his old rival Williams (now solicitor general) royal orders to suggest names of local Dissenters suitable to serve as magistrates - a preliminary step towards the issue of the Declaration of Indulgence nine days later. He finally surrendered the Great Seal (which James
JEFFREYS, JOHN (1718? - 1798), musician Born at Llanynys, Denbighshire, c. 1718. A contemporary of John Williams (Ioan Rhagfyr), he was a good musician. His hymn-tune ' Hero ' appeared in Haleliwia Drachefn (G. Harries) and a ' Traethdon ' (chant) in Y Cerddor Cymreig, August 1867; he is better known, however, for the hymn-tune called ' Dyfrdwy.' He died in 1798.
JEFFREYS, JUSTINA (1787 - 1869), gentlewoman , suggests the influence of Justina's attachment to Tywyn and Aberdyfi, and of the fashionable ideas about the Picturesque so interesting to her friend Thomas Love Peacock. When Peacock married Jane Gryffydh in 1820 his bride took up residence in Glandyfi Castle, and he also dined at the castle on a number of occasions in the next eleven years. Justina and George Jeffreys had nine children, Louisa Maria
JENKINS, DANIEL (1856 - 1946), schoolmaster and devotee of Welsh literature and music , Elizabeth, daughter of William and Ann Williams of Llanfair Clydogau. He died at Pentrefelin, the farmhouse where he was born, 18 November 1946.
JENKINS, DAVID (1912 - 2002), librarian and scholar 1992 and 1993. He attended Ardwyn grammar school, Aberystwyth and then, in 1932, he became a student at the University College of Wales Aberystwyth where he graduated in Welsh Literature in 1935. As the Sir John Williams Research Student 1937-39 he began his research on the life and work of the poet Huw Morys (Eos Ceiriog, 1624-1709). He published a valuable article in The Bulletin of the Board of
JENKINS, DAVID ARWYN (1911 - 2012), barrister and historian of Welsh law volume, Tân yn Llŷn: hanes brwydr gorsaf awyr Penyberth, was published in 1937 in the wake of the arson at the site of the bombing school and the subsequent trial of the defendants Saunders Lewis, D. J. Williams and Lewis Valentine. An English language translation by Ann Corkett was published as A Nation on Trial: Penyberth 1936. His literary efforts continued thereafter, with his history of the Welsh

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