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JACOB, WILLIAM (1777 - 1845), musician Born near Carmarthen; it was, however, from Manchester that he came to Holywell (c. 1818) where he became an excellent singer and acted for many years as precentor of the Wesleyan chapel. In 1844 he produced Eos Cymru, a collection of hymn-tunes, chants, and anthems. The collection includes four hymn-tunes and a short anthem of his own composition, and some of Handel's choruses. Newton's tune
JAMES, DAVID (1863 - 1929), Rugby football players
JAMES, EDWARD (1569? - 1610?), cleric and translator another by Nicander (Morris Williams) in 1847. As there are no extant Llandaff diocesan records of this period, the date of James's death is not known; J. C. Morrice gives it as 1610, but no successor was appointed until 1620 (D. R. Phillips, Hist. of the Vale of Neath, 76).
JAMES, IVOR (1840? - 1909), first registrar of the University of Wales schoolmaster. Ivor James was a journalist in London for a while and he was also interested in reading documents at the British Museum before going to Queens' College, Cambridge; he also tried the law and started preparing for holy orders. He married, c. 1870, Margaret Elborough Pruen, daughter of Dr. Henry Pruen, rector of Ashchurch, Gloucestershire. He was settled near Swansea at the time when the movement
JAMES, PHILIP (1664 - 1748), early Baptist minister Born near Pontardulais, and educated (so it is said) in the school kept by Robert Morgan (1621 - 1711). His parents resented his Dissent, and c. 1685 he went to Liverpool, in service to a Baptist medical man named Ebenezer Fabius (died 1691); he then practised medicine, and also preached, near Lichfield. According to David Jones (Hanes y Bedyddwyr yn Neheubarth Cymru, 524), he was for a while
JAMES, WILLIAM (1833 - 1905), Calvinistic Methodist minister the ministry; he went in 1853 to a school at Chester, and in 1855 to the college at Bala; he matriculated in London University in 1859, and graduated in 1862. He was pastor at Garn for some months, and at Aberdovey and Towyn, Meironnydd, from October 1863 till January 1866; he then removed to take charge of Moss Side C M. church, Manchester, and was there till he died, 19 October 1905. James became
JAMES, Sir WILLIAM MILBOURNE (1807 - 1881), Lord Justice Born 1807 at Merthyr Tydfil, son of Christopher James, a prosperous provision merchant, uncle of C. H. James. He was educated at the school kept by John James of Gellionnen (1779 - 1864), and at Glasgow University, and was called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn in 1831. He practised for some years on the South Wales circuit but later confined his activities to his extensive Chancery practic e. In
JANNER, BARNETT (BARON JANNER), (1892 - 1982), politician 'Barney' Janner was born in Lucknick, Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire, on 20 June 1892, the second child of Joseph Vitum-Janner (c.1864-1932) and Gertrude Zwick (c.1864-1902). Within nine months of his birth, his father took the family to Barry, Glamorganshire, where Joseph Janner became a furniture dealer, first at 31 Holton Road and later in the High Street. Besides their eldest
JEFFREYS, JOHN (1718? - 1798), musician Born at Llanynys, Denbighshire, c. 1718. A contemporary of John Williams (Ioan Rhagfyr), he was a good musician. His hymn-tune ' Hero ' appeared in Haleliwia Drachefn (G. Harries) and a ' Traethdon ' (chant) in Y Cerddor Cymreig, August 1867; he is better known, however, for the hymn-tune called ' Dyfrdwy.' He died in 1798.
JEFFREYS, THOMAS TWYNOG (1844 - 1911), poet to another of the Fothergill concerns, at Pen-y-darren (Merthyr Tydfil), Jeffreys accompanied him; but in 1875 he removed to Rhymney and opened a boot-shop. At Rhymney he was the pivot of cultural activities. His health broke down c. 1892 - he was arthritic, and though he took to commercial-travelling in the hope that an outdoor life would benefit him, the hope proved vain, and he was confined to
JENKIN, THOMAS JAMES (1885 - 1965), plant breeder and Professor of Agricultural Botany scientific dedication using a mere fraction of the apparatus and resources which became available to the plant breeder in the second half of the 20th c. After retiring in 1950 he published much of the fruit of his research into the genetics of grasses. He published several articles in this field in the Jnl. of Genetics and other scientific journals, as well as in the bulletins of the Plant Breeding Station
JENKINS, HENRY HORATIO (1903 - 1985), violinist and conductor Rae Jenkins was born at 13 Hall St, Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, on 19 April 1903, the son of Henry Jenkins, a colliery labourer, and his wife Ann; the parents were also caretakers of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Ammanford. According to the 1911 census there was one other male child, Rees, who was born c.1900. A girl, May, was also mentioned in Rae Jenkins's appearance on Desert Island Discs. The name

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