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JAMES, DAVID EMRYS (Dewi Emrys; 1881 - 1952), minister (Congl.), writer and poet adult education, and ' Y Bwthyn ' became the haunt of poets and writers. He was one of the masters of cerdd dafod, winning among many other prizes at the national eisteddfod the crown in Swansea, 1926 (for ' Rhigymau'r ffordd fawr'), and the chair four times - Liverpool, 1929 ('Dafydd ap Gwilym'); Llanelli, 1930 ('Y Galilead'); Bangor, 1943 ('Cymylau amser'); and Bridgend, 1948 ('Yr Alltud'). He was
JAMES, JOHN (Ioan Meirion; 1815 - 1851), writer when the Anglican newspaper Y Cymro was removed from Bangor to London in 1830, James became its editor. He died 24 April 1851 (from a kick by his horse on Blackheath), and was buried in the churchyard at Llan-ym-Mawddwy; according to his tombstone he was then 36.
JARMAN, ALFRED OWEN HUGHES (1911 - 1998), Welsh scholar Alfred (Fred) Jarman was born in Bangor 8 October 1911, the eldest of the three children of Thomas Jarman, a shop keeper from Newtown, Montgomeryshire, and his wife Flora. He was educated at Cae Top primary school and Friars' Grammar School Bangor, and then at the University College of North Wales, Bangor where he graduated with first-class honours in Welsh in 1932 and in English the following
JARMAN, ELDRA MARY (1917 - 2000), harpist and author notation. Later, she travelled to the university at Bangor for further tuition from Alwena Roberts ('Telynores Iâl'; 1899-1981). Through her father's contact with Nansi Richards, when she was around fifteen years old, Eldra was invited to the farm of Hafod y Porth, Beddgelert, home to Nansi and her husband Cecil Maurice Jones. She described herself and Nansi as soul mates: they shared the same impulsive
JENKIN, THOMAS JAMES (1885 - 1965), plant breeder and Professor of Agricultural Botany School, Carmarthen, in 1909 to attain university matriculation, and returned to the college at Aberystwyth in 1910, gaining a first-class honours B.Sc. degree in 1914 in botany. He was the agricultural organizer for Brecon and Radnor, 1914-15, and adviser in agricultural botany for the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries in the counties served by the University College of North Wales, Bangor, 1915-19
JENKINS, DANIEL (1856 - 1946), schoolmaster and devotee of Welsh literature and music Born 7 November 1856, son of Griffith and Catherine Jenkins, Pentrefelin, Nancwnlle, Cardiganshire. He was educated at Bwlch-y-llan primary school, Holt Academy, and Bangor Normal College. He was appointed headmaster of Cilcennin school in 1877, and Llanfair Clydogau in 1878, both in Cardiganshire, and Llan-y-crwys school, Carmarthenshire, in 1897 where he remained until his retirement in 1920
JENKINS, JOHN (GWILI) (1872 - 1936), poet, theologian, and man of letters Born at Hendy, Pontardulais, Carmarthenshire, 8 October 1872, son of John and Elizabeth Jenkins. He began preaching (with the Baptists) in 1891, and after a short period at Gwynfryn (Ammanford), the school kept by Watcyn Wyn (Watkin Hezekiah Williams), went in 1892 to Bangor and thence (1896) to University College, Cardiff; at both alike, preaching and poetry seemed to him more important than
JENKINS, ROBERT THOMAS (1881 - 1969), historian, man of letters, editor of Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig and the Dictionary of Welsh Biography Born 31 August 1881 in Liverpool, son of Robert Jenkins and Margaret (née Thomas). The family moved to Bangor when his father was appointed clerk to William Cadwaladr Davies, registrar of the new college, but after the early death of his parents (his mother in 1887 and his father in 1888) he was raised by his mother's family at Bala; he always acknowledged a deep debt to his grandmother, Margaret
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, GEORGE (1918 - 1994), minister (Bapt) and college principal Young Hayden, he began to preach. In 1938 he was admitted to the Baptist College in Bangor as a ministerial student, registering at the same time in the University College of Wales, Bangor. He graduated with honours Welsh in 1941 and in Semitic languages in 1942. He gained a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1945, with New Testament Greek and Church History as his main subjects. He was ordained a Baptist
JOHNES, ARTHUR JAMES (1809 - 1871), county court judge a prize offered by the Cymmrodorion Society for an essay on The Causes which in Wales have produced Dissent from the Established Church. A second edition (expanded) appeared in 1832, and a third in 1870. In 1834 he published some translations of poems by Dafydd ap Gwilym. Johnes took an active part by voice and pen in resisting the scheme (c. 1838) to unite the sees of Bangor and S. Asaph and
teulu JONES, smiths, poets, musicians and preachers Cilie, Movements He was the eldest child, born 3 May 1877 in the smithy house, Blaencelyn. After he left Pontgarreg school, he worked in the smithy and on the farm while he attended, intermittently, the tutorial school at New Quay between 1897 and 1899. That year, he went to Bala-Bangor College and to the University College, Bangor to prepare for the ministry. He obtained a B.A. degree in 1903 and a B.D. in 1910

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