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JEFFREYS, GEORGE (1st baron Jeffreys of Wem), (1645 - 1689), judge consolidating the holdings of these descendants of Tudur Trevor (with their motto ' Pob dawn o Dduw') in Wrexham common fields; by marrying as his third wife the widow of Sir Edward Trevor of Brynkinallt, he established a link with another ancient local family. His father, JOHN JEFFREYS II (1608 - 1691), fought for Charles I, but was reconciled to the Protectorate and served as sheriff in 1655. Of his elder
JEFFREYS, JUSTINA (1787 - 1869), gentlewoman Justina Jeffreys was born on 10 September 1787 and baptised in St Andrew's Parish, Jamaica. Her mother, Susan Leslie (1766-1812), was a free 'mulatto' woman, and her father was a Scotsman, Charles McMurdo (1744-1826), Captain of the 3rd East Kent Regiment of Foot, 'the Buffs', and Major of Brigade in Jamaica. During her early years she grew up in Jamaica with her younger brother Charles McMurdo
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 ERWYD (1864 - 1937), Calvinistic Methodist minister and historian church at Denbigh, and there began his remarkable career as a researcher into the history of his connexion. He reprinted (1905 and 1906) the old anti-Methodist pamphlets of T. E. Owen and of Hugh Davies of Aber. Then (1908) came his exhaustive three-volume biography of Thomas Charles of Bala, which eventually brought him a D.Litt. degree from Liverpool. In 1911 (he resigned his pastorate in that year
JENKINS, JENKIN (bu farw 1780), tutor of Carmarthen Academy letter-book, NLW MS 5453C), and in 1779 he was removed from office. He afterwards lived in London, and died at Tottenham Court 28 November 1780. Since c. 1773 he had borne the degree of D.D., but of which university is not stated. His two most famous pupils at Carmarthen were David Davis of Castellhywel and Thomas Charles, and it should be noted that David Davis spoke most highly of him as a teacher.
JENKINS, ROBERT THOMAS (1881 - 1969), historian, man of letters, editor of Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig and the Dictionary of Welsh Biography , and to her husband, William Dafis, a coalmerchant. Profoundly influenced by the town of Bala, its craftsmen and his recollections of notable inhabitants, its sturdy Welsh culture, the old grammar school and the denominational colleges, it was thus natural for him often to rejoice that he had been baptized by Thomas Charles Edwards. He was firmly grounded in Latin by John Cadwalader Evans, headmaster
JENKINS, ROY HARRIS (1920 - 2003), politician and author Park from 1944 until war's end. He met Jennifer Morris (1921-2017) at a Fabian Summer School in Devon in 1940, and they married on 20 January 1945 in London. They had two sons, Charles and Edward, and a daughter, Cynthia. Now 24, Jenkins attempted to get himself elected to Parliament. Despite trying in several Midlands constituencies, he was only able to secure the candidacy in Solihull for the 1945
JOHN, EWART STANLEY (1924 - 2007), theologian, Welsh Congregationalist minister, college professor and principal career, as it was then, following the untimely death of his close friend, Professor J. Alwyn Charles, that he was appointed Professor of Christian Doctrine at Bala-Bangor Theological College. Having already graduated in the Arts (B.A. in Welsh and Philosophy, 1947) and in Theology (B.D., 1950; principal subjects: Christian Doctrine and Church History) from the University of Wales, and having gained, in
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
teulu JONES Llwyn-rhys, James II …, 1702; (8) The Life of William III …, 1703 (3rd ed., 1705); (9) A Compleat History of Europe … from 1600 …, eighteen vols., 1705-20 (vol. vi a reprint of no. 4 above; a dedicatory epistle by D. J. in vol. xvi); (10) a translation of P. Paul-Yves Pezron, Antiquité de la nation et de la langue des Celtes, 1703, under the title Antiquities of Nations (ded. to Charles, lord Halifax), 1706; (11
JONES, DAVID RICHARD (1832 - 1916), poet when he opened on his own, retiring in 1887; he died in 1916. He began to write verse in 1858, and many of his poems appeared in the columns of Y Drych (Utica). The influence of the ideas of Charles Darwin on his poems was very marked, and for that reason they were unacceptable to many Welsh people, especially Yr Ymchwil am y Goleuni (Dolwyddelan, 1910); T. Gwynn Jones, on the other hand, considered
JONES, EDWARD (Bardd y Brenin; 1752 - 1824), harpist, arranger and publisher of harp music, collector and publisher of old penillion, national melodies, and translations into English; historian of Welsh literature and of Welsh musical instruments; collector of manuscripts and antiquary interest in poetry and native customs. He proceeded to London about 1775 under the patronage of members of the Welsh nobility. Almost immediately he came into contact with Charles Burney, and became teacher of the harp to several persons of rank. After his appointment as harpist to the prince of Wales, he made constant use of this title from about 1790 until 1820. On the prince's succession to the throne

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