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JAMES, DAVID EMRYS (Dewi Emrys; 1881 - 1952), minister (Congl.), writer and poet Born 26 May 1881 at Majorca House, New Quay, Cardiganshire, son of Thomas Emrys James, a Congl. minister in Llandudno at the time, and Mary Ellen (née Jones), his wife, the daughter of a master mariner. The mother returned to New Quay to give birth to the child who was named David Edward, but the name Emrys was adopted later. When he was 7 years old his father received a call to be pastor of
JAMES, IVOR (1840? - 1909), first registrar of the University of Wales Born Ivor James, or IVOR BARNOLD ROBERT JAMES, as be called himself, 21 September 1840, at Britannia, in the village of Rock, and the parish of Bedwellte, Monmouth, son of Robert James and Mary (Arnold), his wife. Hence, on the distaff side, he had connections with the Arnold family of Llanthony and The Court, Llanfihangel Crucorney. The family moved to Llansamlet where the father was
JAMES, JAMES (Iago Emlyn; 1800 - 1879), Congregational minister and poet Born in the parish of Bettws Ifan, near Cardigan, in 1800, the son of David and Mary James. By November 1809 the parents had died, and he was cared for by his grandmother at Dinas, near Newcastle Emlyn. For some years he was engaged in business in various places, including Bristol. In 1840 he entered the college at Carmarthen, and subsequently served pastorates at Llanelly, Cardiff, Newport, and
JAMES, JOHN (1872 - 1934), director of education in Glamorganshire He was the son of David James, Baptist minister and his wife Mary, sister of ' Myfyr Emlyn ' (Benjamin Thomas), the poet-preacher. They had four sons and four daughters. His brother was Defynnog. He had a brilliant academic career after having worked for a time in a grocer's shop in the Rhondda valley, Glamorganshire. At 16, as the holder of an open scholarship, he went to University College
JAMES, THOMAS (bu farw 1751), early Methodist exhorter - some of his reports on these are printed in Methodistiaeth Cymru, i, 165, iii, 315, 331. Howel Harris in his diaries often mentions James, and the Trevecka collection (N.L.W.) contains ten letters of James's to Harris, a letter of his to Harris's future wife, and one to Whitefield, together with seventeen letters from Harris to James, and one from Anne Williams (Harris) to him; the correspondence
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
JARMAN, ELDRA MARY (1917 - 2000), harpist and author
JEFFREYS, GEORGE (1st baron Jeffreys of Wem), (1645 - 1689), judge Henry's friend Ambrose Lewis, the Puritan schoolmaster who, after conforming in 1662, had come under fresh suspicion - and that despite the panic arising from Monmouth's recent ovation at Chester. After the death of his first wife he married Anne, widow of Sir John Jones of Fonmon, Glamorganshire (son of the Cromwellian 'lord' Philip Jones, 1616 - 1674). The peerage became extinct with his son John, who
JENKINS, DAVID (1912 - 2002), librarian and scholar David Jenkins was born in Blaenclydach, Rhondda Valley, 29 May 1912, one of the five children of Evan Jenkins and his wife Mary (née James). Like many in the coalmining valleys of Glamorganshire who had emigrated there from rural Wales but retained their connections with their home areas, Evan Jenkins had come to Blaenclydach from Aberaeron, Ceredigion, after spending a few years in London, and
JENKINS, DAVID CYRIL (1885 - 1978), musician Cyril Jenkins was born in Dunvant, Swansea, on 9 October 1885, the son of John Jenkins, a coal miner, and his wife Mary; the family moved to Cilfynydd when Cyril was a child. His first music teacher was David Lloyd of Tonypandy, but he was educated at the Pontypridd County Grammar School and took lessons in music theory with Harry Evans and organ lessons with W. G. Alcock. While still in his
JENKINS, EVAN (1794 - 1849), cleric and schoolmaster . Their sister Mary married a Calvinistic Methodist, Moses Roderick, and the farm remained in her family until the twentieth century. There are no records of contact between the Anglican brothers who left Wales and their Methodist sister. Evan's father died when he was twelve, as indicated by the short will made on 8 December 1806. As the third son, owning no land of his own, farmer Evan had sunk below

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