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JENKINS, JENKIN (bu farw 1780), tutor of Carmarthen Academy interested in them, but on the other hand he stubbornly refused to accept a colleague. Further, he was very hard of hearing, and according to Thomas Morgan (1720 - 1799) he suffered from ' an entire want of pulpit oratory '; nor was he a good disciplinarian. From 1775 onwards, there were continual squabbles between him and the Presbyterian Fund Board (there are many echoes of these in Thomas Morgan's
JOHN ap JOHN (1625? - 1697), the apostle of the Quakers in Wales Called Siôn ap Siôn by Ellis Pugh in his Annerch i'r Cymru (1721); born at Pen-y-cefn in the township of Coed Cristionydd, Ruabon. He joined the Puritans in the days of the Commonwealth and became a member of the congregation at Wrexham which was under the care of Morgan Llwyd. On 21 July 1653 he and another man journeyed on Morgan Llwyd's behalf to Swarthmore, Lancashire, to meet George Fox, the
JOHN, BRYNMOR THOMAS (1934 - 1988), Labour politician officer with the education branch of the RAF. As a partner from 1960 to 1970 in the firm of Morgan, Bruce and Nicholas, Pontypridd, John specialised in industrial accident cases. He had joined the Labour Party at the age of eighteen, and was secretary of the Labour Party at University College, London. He was active in the local Labour Party in Pontypridd. He was elected Labour MP for Pontypridd in the
JOHN, DAVID (1782? - 1853), Unitarian minister, a Chartist, and, by trade, a smith , where on Sundays and the evenings of week-days, subjects to help workmen in their occupations were taught. His sons, DAVID JOHN and MATTHEW JOHN, were also prominent Chartists; the former, a fiery soul, published, with Morgan Williams, the Welsh Chartist paper Udgorn Cymru, 1840-2, and the English Advocate and Merthyr Free Press, 1840, of which only five numbers appeared. He represented the Chartists
JOHN, GEORGE (1918 - 1994), minister (Bapt) and college principal were born to them: Delyth Margaret and Carys Elisabeth. In 1971 he was appointed professor of New Testament Studies in the Baptist College in Bangor, succeeding D. Eirwyn Morgan as head of the College in 1980. He was elected President of the Baptist Association in Caernarfonshire in 1982. In 1984, he retired to live in Llandysul, but continued to lecture for a time in the University College of Wales
JOHN, JAMES MANSEL (1910 - 1975), Baptist minster and college professor was baptised by the minister, the Reverend Cynog Williams. He was educated in Aberdare Primary School before moving to the Boys' Grammar School in the town, from where he was accepted in 1929 to read History in the South Wales and Monmouthshire University College, Cardiff. He graduated in 1933 and was awarded the Charles Morgan University Prize in Welsh History. In 1934, with the help of the James
JOHN, MARY HANNAH (1874 - 1962), singer and revivalist May John was born at 4 Canning Street, Ton Pentre in the Rhondda on 26 January 1874, the sixth of the seven children of Morgan John (1841-1909), manager of a shoeshop, and his wife Mary (née James, 1840-1930). The Johns were a devout Calvinistic Methodist family, Morgan John being a deacon at Jerusalem Chapel in Ton Pentre. The family was a very musical one, and May began to sing when still very
JOHN, WALTER PHILLIPS (1910 - 1967), minister (B) 1967. In 1940 he married married Nansi, only child of Morgan A. Jones, minister (B) at Whitland, Carmarthenshire, and grand-daughter of Daniel Jones, his predecessor. Walter P. John achieved prominence early in his career as a cultured preacher, whose services were in great demand in his own and other denominations in England and Wales. He also mastered the art of broadcasting, and was the first
teulu JONES Llwyn-rhys, This family was closely associated with early Nonconformity in mid-Cardiganshire. Llwynrhys was a cruck-framed long-house built in the 15th century in the parish of Llanbadarn Odwyn (Peate, Welsh House, 78-9). The house was licensed, as that of JOHN JONES, for Morgan Howell to preach there, 28 October 1672 (Richards, Wales under the Indulgence, 156); and about the same time an additional room was
JONES, BENJAMIN (1756 - 1823), Independent minister Born at Tre-cyrn-fawr, Llanwinio, Carmarthenshire, 29 September 1756. His parents were well-to-do church-goers whose intention it was that he should take holy orders. He was given his early education by a clergyman at Llanddewi-Velfrey school, Pembrokeshire. He came under the influence of Richard Morgan of Henllan and John Griffith of Glandwr who persuaded him to become an Independent; he joined
JONES, DAFYDD RHYS (1877 - 1946), schoolmaster and musician ' School in Aberdare, before taking charge of Cwmystwyth school in December 1902. At the end of March 1906 he returned to Patagonia to be first headmaster of the secondary school there. A few weeks earlier Eluned Morgan had visited Cwmystwyth school and addressed the pupils. Apparently there was a connection between this visit and his appointment as headmaster in Gaiman where he spent 8 influential and
JONES, DAVID (1741 - 1792), Baptist minister Harry. He induced Peter Williams to join him - this was the direct cause of Williams's expulsion by the Methodists (1791), but the Baptist Association in 1787 and in 1788 officially commended the book. Publication began in 1788, and was completed in 1790; Jones himself acted as travelling salesman. He died 24 January 1792, and was buried at Troed-yr-aur; elegies upon him were written by Morgan John

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