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INSOLE, JAMES HARVEY (1821 - 1901), colliery proprietor James Harvey Insole was born in Worcester on 30 April 1821. He was the second of six children of George Insole (1790-1851) who was then a Worcester carpenter and later a South Wales colliery proprietor, and his wife Mary (née Finch, 1791-1866). In 1828, the family moved to Cardiff, Glamorganshire, and James attended schools there and in Melksham, Wiltshire. Upon reaching his majority in 1842, he
IRBY, GEORGE FLORANCE (1860 - 1941), landowner and scientist Born 6 September 1860, eldest son of Florance George Irby, 5th Baron Boston, and Augusta Caroline, daughter of the 3rd Baron de Saumarez. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with 2nd class honours in Modern History in 1882. From 1885 to 1886 he was lord-in-waiting to Queen Victoria. He had estates in Lincolnshire, Buckinghamshire and a seat at Lligwy, Anglesey
JACKSON, Sir CHARLES JAMES (1849 - 1923), businessman and collector , once married to the writer, Cyril Connolly. He married again, for the sixth and last time, in 1968, Marie-Christine, daughter of Baron George Reille. Derek Jackson had a daughter from his third marriage. After a distinguished career as a scientist and a successful career as an owner of racehorses, Derek Jackson died at Lausanne on 20 February 1982. During his last years, he greatly enjoyed watching
JEFFREYS, GEORGE (1st baron Jeffreys of Wem), (1645 - 1689), judge brothers, Sir Thomas (knighted 1686) was a British consul in Spain, where he married a Spanish wife and adopted her faith; and William was vicar of Holt, 1668-75. George Jeffreys was educated from 1652-9 at his grandfather's old school, Shrewsbury (with periodic tests of his progress by his mother's friend Philip Henry), then at S. Pauls (1659), Westminster (1661), Trinity College, Cambridge (1662
JEFFREYS, JUSTINA (1787 - 1869), gentlewoman prominent family of courtiers, his mother had been a great favourite of George III and wet nurse to the Prince of Wales. Edward had divided his life between the Buffs and serving as Equerry to the Prince of Wales, later George IV. His wife, Louisa, was the widow of his cousin Count Louis de Saumaise, a proud descendent of the distinguished classical scholar Claude Saumaise, whose royalist tract in defence
JENKINS, HENRY HORATIO (1903 - 1985), violinist and conductor 'Rae', by which he was known throughout his adult life, came from a two-stage contraction of Horatio: first 'Ratio', then 'Rae'. When he was only four his grandfather gave him a violin, which he learned under the tutelage of George Evans, a collier, who was also a talented violinist. As well as providing his charge with lessons, Evans enrolled him into the small band that accompanied silent movies at
JENKINS, WALTER (bu farw 1661), early Welsh Quaker Born in the mansion of Pant, Llanfihangel Ystum ('Ystern') Llewern, Monmouthshire, son of Thomas Jenkins, squire and rector of that parish (died 1649). The son met George Fox, so Fox says, in a conference in Leicestershire in 1655. When in 1657 Fox visited South Wales, ' Justice Jenkins ' was with him at a meeting in a church somewhere between Brecon and Pontypool. He suffered for his Quakerism
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
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, GEORGE (1918 - 1994), minister (Bapt) and college principal George John was born in Pen-rhiw in the parish of Eglwys Wen, Pembrokeshire, on 8 November 1918, the son of William and Margaret John. He had one sister, Mattie, and two half-sisters from his widowed father's first marriage. He was educated in the local primary school and in Cardigan County School. He was baptised in Bethabara Baptist church and there, under the ministry of the Reverend Lewis
JOHN, JAMES MANSEL (1910 - 1975), Baptist minster and college professor J. Mansel John was born in Trecynon, Aberdare, on 22 April 1910. He was the eldest of the three children of Thomas David John and his wife, Jennet (née George). Beryl was the second of their three children and Esmor the third. His father was an overman in a local colliery. The family were faithful and active members of the Baptist church meeting in Heol-y-felin and it was there that Mansel John
JOHN, THOMAS GEORGE (1880 - 1946), engineer and businessman

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