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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
JENKINS, JENKIN (bu farw 1780), tutor of Carmarthen Academy interested in them, but on the other hand he stubbornly refused to accept a colleague. Further, he was very hard of hearing, and according to Thomas Morgan (1720 - 1799) he suffered from ' an entire want of pulpit oratory '; nor was he a good disciplinarian. From 1775 onwards, there were continual squabbles between him and the Presbyterian Fund Board (there are many echoes of these in Thomas Morgan's
JERMAN, HUGH (1836 - 1895), artist and musician . One son, Richard Henry Jerman, 1866 - 1951, was also a gifted artist. His brother-in-law, Edward Salter, born 1831, was a schoolmaster and artist and father of E.H. Langford Salter, 1870 - 1949, who established a music business in Neath and manufactured organs. He died May 8, 1895 and was buried in the parish cemetery at Llanidloes.
JOAN (bu farw 1237), princess and diplomat benefited. Joan assumed the role of political diplomat and counsellor, acting as one of Llywelyn's principal arbitrators with the English Crown during the reigns of both King John and Henry III, her half-brother. The Welsh chronicles record Joan's first official act as political emissary in August 1211 after a successful royal campaign was launched against the prince of Gwynedd, who was forced into
JOHN ap JOHN (1625? - 1697), the apostle of the Quakers in Wales Called Siôn ap Siôn by Ellis Pugh in his Annerch i'r Cymru (1721); born at Pen-y-cefn in the township of Coed Cristionydd, Ruabon. He joined the Puritans in the days of the Commonwealth and became a member of the congregation at Wrexham which was under the care of Morgan Llwyd. On 21 July 1653 he and another man journeyed on Morgan Llwyd's behalf to Swarthmore, Lancashire, to meet George Fox, the
JOHN, AUGUSTUS EDWIN (1878 - 1961), artist Born 4 January 1878, third child of Edwin William John and his wife Augusta (née Smith); younger brother of Gwendolen Mary John. The family moved to Tenby from Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, after the death of their mother in 1884. After being educated locally and at Clifton, Augustus John went to London in 1894, where he studied art at the Slade School for four years under Henry Tonks and
JOHN, BRYNMOR THOMAS (1934 - 1988), Labour politician He was born on 18 April 1934, the son of William Henry John, a painter and decorator, and Sarah Jane John. He received his education at Wood Road elementary school, Treforest, Pontypridd Boys' Grammar School and University College, London. He graduated Ll. B. (Hons.) in 1954. He was an articled clerk, 1954-57 and he became a solicitor in 1957. He was on National Service, 1958-60, serving as an
JOHN, DAVID (1782? - 1853), Unitarian minister, a Chartist, and, by trade, a smith , where on Sundays and the evenings of week-days, subjects to help workmen in their occupations were taught. His sons, DAVID JOHN and MATTHEW JOHN, were also prominent Chartists; the former, a fiery soul, published, with Morgan Williams, the Welsh Chartist paper Udgorn Cymru, 1840-2, and the English Advocate and Merthyr Free Press, 1840, of which only five numbers appeared. He represented the Chartists
JOHN, GEORGE (1918 - 1994), minister (Bapt) and college principal minister in 1945 and for the next twenty six years pastored Baptist churches: Cwmduad and Ffynnon-Henri (1945-48), Tabernacl, Llwynhendy (1948-59), and Bethel, Dre-fach (1959-71), with Rehoboth and Clawdd-coch being placed under his care in 1968. In 1951, while minister of Tabernacl, Llwynhendy, he married Elsie Margaret, the daughter of David Henry and Elisabeth Ann Jenkins, Llwynhendy. Two daughters
JOHN, HENRY (1664 - 1754), hymnist
JOHN, JAMES MANSEL (1910 - 1975), Baptist minster and college professor was baptised by the minister, the Reverend Cynog Williams. He was educated in Aberdare Primary School before moving to the Boys' Grammar School in the town, from where he was accepted in 1929 to read History in the South Wales and Monmouthshire University College, Cardiff. He graduated in 1933 and was awarded the Charles Morgan University Prize in Welsh History. In 1934, with the help of the James
JOHN, MARY HANNAH (1874 - 1962), singer and revivalist May John was born at 4 Canning Street, Ton Pentre in the Rhondda on 26 January 1874, the sixth of the seven children of Morgan John (1841-1909), manager of a shoeshop, and his wife Mary (née James, 1840-1930). The Johns were a devout Calvinistic Methodist family, Morgan John being a deacon at Jerusalem Chapel in Ton Pentre. The family was a very musical one, and May began to sing when still very

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