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JAMES, JOHN (bu farw 1705), Congregational minister acknowledgement of his services. He was present at Tirdoncyn, 17 November 1697, on the day that Llewelyn Bevan was instituted to Cwmllynfell and Gellionnen. According to a report by the churchwardens of Henllan Amgoed, 4 September 1705, he used to preach to Lewis Thomas's congregation, a body of Calvinists [see under Jeremy Owen ]. He died during that year.
JAMES, OWEN WALDO (1845 - 1910), Baptist minister
JAMES, THOMAS DAVIES (Iago Erfyl; 1862 - 1927), clergyman, and popular preacher and lecturer in both Welsh and English, and he was in demand not only throughout Wales but also in Welsh centres in England. He preached in London during World War I, in Liverpool cathedral in 1927, and he had been invited to deliver a Welsh sermon in St. Paul's cathedral, London, in 1928. His most popular lectures were those on Robert Owen, Twm o'r Nant, Mynyddog, Ceiriog, Y Bardd Cwsg, Owain Glyndŵr and Ann
JAMES, THOMAS EVAN (Thomas ap Ieuan; 1824 - 1870), Baptist minister, and author , Merthyr. He also collected and edited an anthology of verse, Bwrdd y Beirdd, yn cynnwys Detholion Prydyddol o waith Prif Feirdd yr Oes, and edited a booklet on Christmas Evans called Christmasia neu rai o nodweddiadau … Christmas Evans, gan Bleddyn (D. Owen, Brutus).
JAMES, WILLIAM (1848 - 1907), Unitarian minister, schoolmaster, and public worker received a call to take charge of the Old Meeting House at Aberdare during the illness of Rees Jenkin Jones. Six years later he received a call to become minister of the churches at Llwyn-rhyd-owen, Bwlch-y-fadfa, and Llandysul, but owing to ill health, he remained for only eight years. He left the pulpit to enter business, but did not cease to preach. It is only necessary to mention that he kept a
JARMAN, ALFRED OWEN HUGHES (1911 - 1998), Welsh scholar
JARMAN, ELDRA MARY (1917 - 2000), harpist and author months working at Baron Hill, Anglesey, a mansion requisitioned by the government at the beginning of the war. It was around this time that she came to know her husband, Alfred Owen Hughes Jarman (1911-1998), then tutor in the Extramural Department of the University College of North Wales, Bangor. They were introduced by a friend on Jarman's request; he had been captivated when he heard that she
JEFFREYS, JUSTINA (1787 - 1869), gentlewoman of King Charles I was published in Latin in 1649, provoking a response from John Milton. Retired on the income of his wife's estate, Edward Scott followed intellectual pursuits, rejecting Anglican doctrine in favour of Unitarianism and corresponding with James Mill and his son John Stuart Mill, the Welsh lexicographer and antiquary William Owen Pughe (who gave him Welsh lessons) and the satirical
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 ARWYN (1911 - 2012), barrister and historian of Welsh law National Library of Wales were no doubt enlivened by the presence of a member of its staff, Gwyneth Owen, whom he married in 1942. Gwyneth died in 1962. Their son Rhys went on himself to an academic career. It was in this field of academic legal study, which was underwritten by his appointment to a lectureship in Law at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1965 and then to a Personal Chair ten
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, JOHN (1821 - 1896), editor and translator Born in November 1821, at Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, son of Edward Jenkins, flannel manufacturer. He was educated at Shrewsbury and articled to John Owen, solicitor, Newtown. In 1842 he returned to Llanidloes and settled there. He held many legal appointments and numerous appointments in local government and educational affairs. He published a number of legal and other pamphlets including Law

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