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JAMES, THOMAS EVAN (Thomas ap Ieuan; 1824 - 1870), Baptist minister, and author Born 17 March 1824 at Pencraig, Llangoedmor, Cardiganshire, the son of Evan and Mary James. The family moved to Cardigan when he was about 13 years of age. He worked for a while as a farm labourer at Heol-cwm, Verwick, Cardiganshire. He joined the Baptist denomination, and served the chapel of Groes-goch, Pembrokeshire, as unordained minister, 1851-2. He was ordained, and became minister of
JAMES, WILLIAM (1833 - 1905), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 15 March 1833 to Thomas and Anne James, Tyn-rhos, Llanfihangel-genau'r-glyn, Cardiganshire. He was at the local grammar school, but left at 15 to be a shepherd-boy on his father's farm. The father intended him to become a tanner (at Aberayron) but the leaders of Garn C.M. church, impressed by his diligence in Sunday-school work and with congregational singing, urged that he should train for
JAMES, WILLIAM (1761 - 1845), minister (Congl.) Born on Palm Sunday [15 March] 1761 at Abersŵn, Llanllwni, Carmarthenshire. He became a member of Rhyd-y-bont church and began preaching when he was young. He kept school at Glyn Tawe, and then (1785-89) went to 'Carmarthen' academy, which was at the time located in Swansea. He was ordained minister of the churches of Watford and of Trinity, Cardiff, and lived at Ysguborwen farm. About 1826 he
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
JARDINE, DAVID (1732 - 1766), Independent minister and head of an academy Wales, 27 February 1757, and was appointed head of the new Academy at Abergavenny, 7 March 1757, with Benjamin Davies (1739? - 1817) as his assistant. Jardine continued to minister to the church at Abergavenny and to be head of the Academy until he died 1 October 1766. He married the daughter of Lewis Jones, Bridgend, Glamorganshire (1702? - 1772). David Jardine was an excellent teacher and many of
JEFFREYS, GEORGE (1st baron Jeffreys of Wem), (1645 - 1689), judge point of making him viscount Wrexham and earl of Flint (October 1685). On 26 March 1688 he had the distasteful duty of conveying to his old rival Williams (now solicitor general) royal orders to suggest names of local Dissenters suitable to serve as magistrates - a preliminary step towards the issue of the Declaration of Indulgence nine days later. He finally surrendered the Great Seal (which James
JENKINS, ALBERT EDWARD (1895 - 1953), rugby player Born 11 March 1895 at Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, he became the town's idol. His talent on the rugby field flowered when he played as full back for the 38th Division during World War I, but it was as a centre for Llanelli club that he came into prominence. Llanelli was the most successful club for a period during the 1920s, with men like Dai John, Ernie Finch and Ifor Jones in its ranks, but it
JENKINS, DAVID (1912 - 2002), librarian and scholar research papers are in the National Library of Wales. David Jenkins died in Aberystwyth 6 March 2002 aged 89, and he was buried in Horeb cemetery, Penrhyn-coch 9 March.
JENKINS, DAVID ARWYN (1911 - 2012), barrister and historian of Welsh law Dafydd Jenkins was born in London on St David's Day, 1 March 1911, the son of William Jenkins, a bank clerk who had been born in Bermondsey but who had, and retained, Welsh roots (he was of Cardiganshire stock and was Secretary of the Welsh Jewin Chapel in London) and Elizabeth Jenkins who was born in Aberystwyth. He was christened David, but later adopted the Welsh form Dafydd. His sister, Edith
JENKINS, DAVID CYRIL (1885 - 1978), musician music, delivered in a lecture in Manchester on 30 September 1921 and reported in both the English and Welsh editions of the Manchester Guardian (1 Oct 1921), that tainted his reputation with the Welsh music establishment. His feelings on the subject were apparent as early as 1913 in an article in the journal Wales (3 March 1913: 163-4), but the 1921 lecture was more focused and strident. He denounced
JENKINS, HENRY HORATIO (1903 - 1985), violinist and conductor Hill, London until retirement, when they moved to Grantown-on-Spey, Morayshire, Scotland where Rae indulged his passion for fishing. He died on 29 March 1985. His funeral was held at the local St Columba's Church.
JENKINS, HERBERT (1721 - 1772), early Methodist exhorter, afterwards Independent minister Humphreys's pamphlet in defence of Methodism (Atteb i bob dyn a ofynno rheswm am y gobaith sydd ynom), in 1745, he was in effect lost to Wales from 1743 on. His work lay rather in England, and his colleagues were John Cennick and the English Methodists; he was elected member of the English Conference in March 1744 (Tabernacle conference book in N.L.W. - extracts printed in Y Drysorfa, 1936, 159-62), and he

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