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JEFFREYS, JUSTINA (1787 - 1869), gentlewoman author Thomas Love Peacock. In this milieu Justina grew up. She is believed to be the model for the accomplished and unconventional Anthelia, and Edward Scott for her father Sir Henry Melincourt in Thomas Love Peacock's 1817 novel of that name. This is Peacock's description of Anthelia's education: In this romantic seclusion Anthelia was born. Her mother died giving birth. Her father, Sir Henry
JEFFREYS, THOMAS TWYNOG (1844 - 1911), poet Born at Tal-sarn, Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire, 25 February 1844. From the village school he went, at about 14, to work on a family farm, Pwllygerwyn. In 1864, he became a shop-assistant at Aberdare, and became active in the literary and religious life of that town. In 1869 he married Ellen, daughter of John Evans (known as Cymro Du), an official in the Aber-nant iron-works; and when Evans moved
JEFFREYS-JONES, THOMAS IEUAN (1909 - 1967), scholar, lecturer, and warden of Coleg Harlech Born 27 June 1909 in Rhymney, Monmouthshire, son of David Jones and Myfanwy his wife, daughter of Thomas Twynog Jeffreys. He received his elementary education in Ystrad Mynach where his father was schoolmaster. Then he went to Lewis' School, Pengam, and in 1928 to the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire in Cardiff. He graduated in 1931 with first-class honours in Economics and
JEHU, THOMAS JOHN (1871 - 1943), geologist
JENKIN, JOHN (Ioan Siengcin; 1716 - 1796), poet and schoolmaster was greatly influenced by the Gramadeg of John Roderick. He addressed poems both in the classical and in the free metres, to the gentry and, more particularly, to his patron, Thomas Lloyd of Cwm-gloyn. He visited the Llanidloes eisteddfod, 1772, and made the arrangements for the Cardigan eisteddfod, 1773. He knew Ieuan Brydydd Hir (Evan Evans, 1731 - 1788) and wrote an englyn intended for Lewis
JENKIN, THOMAS JAMES (1885 - 1965), plant breeder and Professor of Agricultural Botany
JENKINS, DAVID (1912 - 2002), librarian and scholar northern Germany in 1945. He returned in 1946 to a permanent position in the department of printed books at the National Library where he had a successful career. He was appointed Keeper (Head) of the department in 1957 and Librarian in 1969. In 1948 he married Menna Rhys, the daughter of Reverend Owen Evans Williams, minister of Horeb, Penrhyn-coch from 1919 to 1954. There was a son and a daughter from
JENKINS, DAVID (1582 - 1663), judge memorial tablet. He married Cecil, daughter of Sir Thomas Aubrey, of Llantrithyd, on 7 September 1614, and had four sons and one daughter, but the male line became extinct in the 18th century. His great-grand-daughter Cecil, heiress of the Hensol estate, married Charles Talbot, Lord Chancellor from 1731 to 1737, who took the title of lord Talbot of Hensol. Jenkins graduated at Oxford in 1600 and was
JENKINS, DAVID CYRIL (1885 - 1978), musician Cyril Jenkins was born in Dunvant, Swansea, on 9 October 1885, the son of John Jenkins, a coal miner, and his wife Mary; the family moved to Cilfynydd when Cyril was a child. His first music teacher was David Lloyd of Tonypandy, but he was educated at the Pontypridd County Grammar School and took lessons in music theory with Harry Evans and organ lessons with W. G. Alcock. While still in his
JENKINS, DAVID ERWYD (1864 - 1937), Calvinistic Methodist minister and historian by Thomas James (1834 - 1915) at Llandysul, and thence to University College, Aberystwyth. In 1893 he became pastor at Llanbadarn-fawr, and in 1895 at Tremadoc (English); there, in 1899, he published Bedd Gelert, Facts and Fancies [see Jones, William (1829? - 1903) ]; he also published several Welsh translations of religious handbooks. He was called in 1901 to the pastorate of the C.M. English
JENKINS, DAVID LLOYD (1896 - 1966), writer, poet and schoolmaster Chapel where he served as the precentor and, on occasions, preached. Two of his hymns are included in the school's service book - the school hymn and the St. David's Day hymn. He married on 29 December 1929, Arianwen Elizabeth Ann (Ane), the eldest daughter of Gruffydd Thomas Lewis, the school's headmaster, and they had a daughter. He died 5 August 1966.
JENKINS, EVAN (1895 - 1959), poet Born 2 May 1895, youngest of the 8 children of Thomas and Margaret Jenkins, Tynewydd, Ffair-rhos, Cardiganshire. His father was a miner who worked in the local lead mines, and farmed his smallholding in his spare time. Evan went to Pontrhydfendigaid elementary school in 1901, and to Tregaron county school in October 1909, but when he left is not recorded. He failed to pass the medical examination

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