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JAMES, ISAAC (1766 - 1840), Calvinistic Methodist preacher Born in Cardiganshire, either in the parish of Lledrod or in that of Llanilar; his father, Richard James (on whom see Methodistiaeth Cymru ii, 56-7), was a shoemaker. Married at 17, the son moved to Pen-y-garn, and there began to preach. His sermons and prayers, full of striking remarks, were greatly appreciated by such men as Ebenezer Richard, Evan Harris, and Richard Jones of Wern; and Henry
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, JAMES (Iago ap Iago; 1818 - 1843), poet brother, Morgan James, wrote a short biography of him and collected his poetical works, in a volume edited by I. Jenkins, and published by Thomas Williams, Crickhowell, in 1844.
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, ROBERT (Jeduthyn; 1825 - 1879), musician Born 7 March 1825 at Aberdare, son of Morgan and Ann James. He was taught music in Rosser Beynon's classes. He had a good voice and, in 1845, was elected precentor of Bethesda chapel, Merthyr Tydfil, where he started a choral society which won many eisteddfod prizes. The society published Organ y Cysegr, a collection of sacred music arranged by Robert James. He was a good composer and many of his
JAMES, THOMAS DAVIES (Iago Erfyl; 1862 - 1927), clergyman, and popular preacher and lecturer , 1892. He was curate of Llanfair Caereinion from December 1891 to October 1896; Northop, Flintshire, 1896-97; and chaplain of the Welsh church of St. Martin, Chester, from 1897 to 1901 when he was appointed by the Lord Chancellor to the living of Llanerfyl, Montgomeryshire (which was in the gift of the Crown), and he spent the rest of his life there. He succeeded ' Penfro ' (William Morgan) as Dean of
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
JEFFREYS, GEORGE (1st baron Jeffreys of Wem), (1645 - 1689), judge brothers, Sir Thomas (knighted 1686) was a British consul in Spain, where he married a Spanish wife and adopted her faith; and William was vicar of Holt, 1668-75. George Jeffreys was educated from 1652-9 at his grandfather's old school, Shrewsbury (with periodic tests of his progress by his mother's friend Philip Henry), then at S. Pauls (1659), Westminster (1661), Trinity College, Cambridge (1662
JEFFREYS, JUSTINA (1787 - 1869), gentlewoman author Thomas Love Peacock. In this milieu Justina grew up. She is believed to be the model for the accomplished and unconventional Anthelia, and Edward Scott for her father Sir Henry Melincourt in Thomas Love Peacock's 1817 novel of that name. This is Peacock's description of Anthelia's education: In this romantic seclusion Anthelia was born. Her mother died giving birth. Her father, Sir Henry
JENKINS, DAVID (1912 - 2002), librarian and scholar he found work as a collier. David Jenkins received his early education in the Rhondda but he suffered from a weak chest (he had a bad attack of pneumonia in 1921) and to safeguard his health he regularly spent time with his grandmother, Mary James, her daughter Elizabeth and her younger son Henry at Brogynin Fawr, Penrhyn-coch, Ceredigion. He went to Penrhyn-coch in the early summer of 1924 to
JENKINS, DAVID ARWYN (1911 - 2012), barrister and historian of Welsh law Welsh in the courts introduced by Henry VIII and secure equality for use of the language in that setting. He moved to Aberystwyth in consequence. The subsequent Welsh Courts Act of 1942 fell short of the latter objective, but remains a significant piece of legislation. Jenkins's politics more generally were on the left of the nationalist spectrum. He was, as a pacifist, a conscientious objector during
JENKINS, DAVID ERWYD (1864 - 1937), Calvinistic Methodist minister and historian failed; the war of 1914 broke out, and Jenkins in 1915 became (and remained till 1930) an assistant master in the Denbigh intermediate school. He died 6 September 1937, at Llwyn-yr-eos, Pont-Henry, while on a visit to his native countryside, and was buried in the Baptist graveyard there; on the preceding Sunday he had preached at Ebenezer, Newport, the scene of his first sermon. Besides the books named

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