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JAMES, WILLIAM (1848 - 1907), Unitarian minister, schoolmaster, and public worker school from 1873 to 1883, and was a J.P. and a public worker, to show what a full life he led. Following in the footsteps of Gwilym Marles (William Thomas, 1834 - 1879), he brought the influence of Martineau to bear on his denomination and his district. He was cultured and great-hearted. He was secretary and president of the Unitarian Association and published his address from the chair, Crefydd Cymru
JAMES, Sir WILLIAM MILBOURNE (1807 - 1881), Lord Justice 1846 he married Maria, daughter of William Otter, bishop of Chichester. He was knighted in 1869 and appointed Lord Justice of Appeal in 1870. An enthusiastic Liberal in politics, he was considered for the Merthyr Tydfil nomination when his cousin Charles Herbert James was elected in 1880, but he had lost touch with Welsh affairs and was little interested in Welsh national movements. He died 7 June
JARVICE, WILLIAM (bu farw 1743), Independent minister Very little has been recorded about him. At first the 'congregational churches' or the dissenting congregations of Montgomeryshire, known as the Church of Montgomery, comprised Independents, Baptists, and Quakers, all under the charge of one minister who had a number of assistants. It seems likely that William Jarvice was originally one of these assistants; we first come across his name (in 1703
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 of King Charles I was published in Latin in 1649, provoking a response from John Milton. Retired on the income of his wife's estate, Edward Scott followed intellectual pursuits, rejecting Anglican doctrine in favour of Unitarianism and corresponding with James Mill and his son John Stuart Mill, the Welsh lexicographer and antiquary William Owen Pughe (who gave him Welsh lessons) and the satirical
JENKINS, DANIEL (1856 - 1946), schoolmaster and devotee of Welsh literature and music , Elizabeth, daughter of William and Ann Williams of Llanfair Clydogau. He died at Pentrefelin, the farmhouse where he was born, 18 November 1946.
JENKINS, DAVID (1912 - 2002), librarian and scholar Celtic Studies (vol. 8, 1925-37, 140-5) on the personal and place-names in the poems of Dafydd ap Gwilym. The subject had been suggested to him by his teacher, T. Gwynn Jones, as one who knew the topography and place-names of the area and the result was a study that places the poet and his associations firmly in the commote of Genau'r Glyn, an important step in reclaiming the historical poet. David
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 ERWYD (1864 - 1937), Calvinistic Methodist minister and historian by Thomas James (1834 - 1915) at Llandysul, and thence to University College, Aberystwyth. In 1893 he became pastor at Llanbadarn-fawr, and in 1895 at Tremadoc (English); there, in 1899, he published Bedd Gelert, Facts and Fancies [see Jones, William (1829? - 1903) ]; he also published several Welsh translations of religious handbooks. He was called in 1901 to the pastorate of the C.M. English
JENKINS, DAVID LLOYD (1896 - 1966), writer, poet and schoolmaster Born at Foelallt, Llanddewibrefi, Cardiganshire, on 20 November 1896, the son of William Jenkins, school attendance officer, and Betha Lloyd, his wife. He was educated at the village primary school before he entered Tregaron County school in September 1909. He entered the University College, Aberystwyth in 1915 and obtained second-class honours in Welsh, with philosophy as an additional subject
JENKINS, EVAN (1794 - 1849), cleric and schoolmaster probable that Evan went at once to Brussels to pay off his student debts by private teaching. But he was offered a more permanent teaching job there by John Jay, fell in love with the headmaster's Scottish/English/French-Huguenot-descended daughter Eliza (1797-1864) and was offered a title for orders at the King's Church (which the Dutch king William I attended). In 1825, Evan was ordained deacon then
JENKINS, EVAN (1781 - 1863), hymnist services. One hymn by him (beginning ' Duwioldeb yn ei grym …') has retained popular favour, and appears in modern hymnaries. He died 4 April 1863, aged 82, and was buried in front of Cwm chapel. His elder brother, WILLIAM JENKINS, born 18 April 1779, was a collier, and also caretaker of Philadelphia C.M. chapel at Morriston. He wrote elegies and hymns (notably an elegy upon John Evans of Llwynffortun

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