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JAMES, CARWYN REES (1929 - 1983), teacher, rugby player and coach . One went to work underground at the age of 14 but pneumoconiosis forced him to retire at 30, having become a 'hundred percenter'. The other went to war but Haydn was killed in 1941 aboard HMS Hood, the Royal Navy's biggest vessel, which sank in 3 minutes. In this mining community he enjoyed a traditional chapel upbringing. Yet he and his brother were different from the other boys. Because their
JAMES, CHARLES HERBERT (1817 - 1890), M.P. and in 1880 joined him in the representation of the Merthyr Boroughs. In 1888 he retired in favour of D. A. Thomas, lord Rhondda. He died at Merthyr, 3 October 1890. In 1892 were published three slight volumes by him entitled Seven Lectures on Various Subjects; Letters … giving a Description of the Customs and Rules of the House of Commons; and What I remember about myself and old Merthyr.
JAMES, Sir DAVID JOHN (1887 - 1967), businessman and philanthropist rest of his life there and in Barcombe, Sussex. He married Grace Lily Stevens on 24 April 1924. Although he maintained a business interest in the dairy industry and in buying and selling wheat he is more particularly remembered as the owner of thirteen London cinemas. He built and opened the first London super-cinema in 1920, namely the Palladium, Palmer's Green. In the 1930s he sold them all apart
JAMES, HERBERT ARMITAGE (1844 - 1931), cleric and headmaster Born at Kirkdale, Liverpool, 3 August 1844, second son of David James (Dewi o Ddyfed). He was educated at Abergavenny grammar school and went to Jesus College, Oxford, in 1863. He was at Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1864 (scholar 1864-7), and obtained first classes in classical honour moderations in 1865 and 'Litterae Humaniores' in 1867. He took his B.A. in 1867, M.A. in 1870, B.D. in 1874, and
JAMES, JAMES (1760 - 1831), Calvinistic Methodist and afterwards Independent minister Born 24 November 1760 of well-to-do parents, at Pen-blaen, Aberedw, Radnorshire. In spite of the opposition of his parents he joined the Methodists when he was still quite young and began to preach in 1782. He received his education at Trevecka, where he continued to live for seven years after having been ordained. He was one of those who were set apart at the first Methodist ordination at
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.
JAMES, JOHN (1815 - 1869), poet and hymnwriter Born at Colwinston, Glamorganshire. When only a child of 3 he was blinded for life. Though deprived of the advantages of early education, he became the author of numerous hymns and poems. Many of his compositions were published - Seren Bethlehem (Bridgend, 1849; 2nd ed. Aberdare, 1865); Casgliad o Emynau Gwreiddiol (Aberdare, n.d.; the translation was by Isaac Jenkins); Twyni Tregolwyn (Aberdare
JAMES, LEMUEL JOHN HOPKIN (Hopcyn; 1874 - 1937), cleric and antiquary ), Maindee (Newport, Monmouth, 1901), and Llangattock, Barry (1906). Subsequently, he was vicar of Ystrad Mynach (1906-17), rector of Cowbridge and its associated churches (1917-24), vicar of S. Martins, Cardiff (1924-34), and vicar of Llanynys with Llanychan in the Vale of Clwyd (1934-5). He was canon of Llandaff in 1926, and chancellor from 1930 till his death, 11 April 1937. He was a most diligent
JAMES, THOMAS (Llallawg; 1817 - 1879), clergyman, antiquary, and eisteddfodwr to Yr Haul and Bye-Gones; he was also a frequent visitor to the eisteddfod in Wales where he often acted as adjudicator. He was brother to David James (Dewi o Ddyfed). He died 3 August 1879 and was buried at Netherthong.
JAMES, THOMAS DAVIES (Iago Erfyl; 1862 - 1927), clergyman, and popular preacher and lecturer changed his political views and became a socialist. He was taken ill while preaching in Liverpool cathedral, and although he endeavoured to conduct services two Sundays after that, he had to yield. He died at his daughter's home at Addiscombe, Surrey, 30 July 1927, and was buried in Llanerfyl churchyard, 3 August He was as highly esteemed by the Nonconformists as by churchmen, and the following Sunday
JAMES, WILLIAM (1836 - 1908), Calvinistic Methodist minister 1902-3, and of the General Assembly in 1895, and delivered the ' Davies Lecture ' (Christianity the Goal of Nature) in 1902. Besides this, he published a number of articles in periodicals, and collaborated in a handbook on the Gospels, 1888-90, and (with John Morgan Jones, 1838 - 1921) in a biography of his predecessor at Bethania, David Saunders (1831 - 1892), published in 1894. He was an eminent
JANNER, BARNETT (BARON JANNER), (1892 - 1982), politician editor of the university magazine. Janner's chosen career was the law and he was articled to Sidney, Jenkins and Howell, a Cardiff firm of solicitors, in 1914. He joined the Royal Garrison Artillery as a private on 2 March 1916, but he was not called up until 7 August 1917 and left for France on 24 November. A few months before the end of the war, Janner was a victim of mustard-gas shells and his life

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