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JAMES, THOMAS (bu farw 1751), early Methodist exhorter sometimes called 'Thomas James of Builth,' but mostly 'Thomas James of Crickadarn,' i.e. Erwood, Brecknock - and in 1744 Richard Tibbott refers to 'Thomas James's house at Erwood.' Nothing is known of him before he began exhorting, in 1741. At the Watford Association (January 1743) he was set apart as an itinerant, and in April (again at Watford) was made overseer of Societies in the Wye Valley
JAMES, THOMAS (1827 - 1899), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 18 July 1827 at Llansawel, Carmarthenshire, son of Thomas and Sarah James. In 1842 he moved with his father to Dowlais, became a member of Hermon chapel, and started to preach. He was educated at Ffrwd-fâl school, Trevecka, and Glasgow University - where he graduated M.A. In 1861 he was ordained at the Newcastle Emlyn Association and settled at Llanelly, where, for a time, he kept a school
JAMES, THOMAS (Llallawg; 1817 - 1879), clergyman, antiquary, and eisteddfodwr Born 21 August 1817 at Manordivy, north Pembrokeshire. Ordained deacon in 1840 (and priest, 1841), his first curacies were in Much Wenlock and Derby. Persuaded by Lewis Jones (Almondbury) he went to Yorkshire in 1846 and was vicar of All Saints, Netherthong, for a period of thirty-three years. He remained single until 1870 when he married Jane, daughter of William Hammett, Appledore Court, Devon
JAMES, THOMAS DAVIES (Iago Erfyl; 1862 - 1927), clergyman, and popular preacher and lecturer Son of Thomas James and his wife; born at Manafon, Montgomeryshire, 13 August 1862. Soon afterwards the family moved to Wyddi-goed, Llanfechain, but his parents died when he was young and he was brought up by his grandparents at Garth Isaf, Rhosybrithdir, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant. He began preaching with the Methodists at Rhosybrithdir, went to Didsbury College, Manchester, and after passing his
JAMES, THOMAS EVAN (Thomas ap Ieuan; 1824 - 1870), Baptist minister, and author Pontestyll, near Brecon, 1853-6. He also served pastorates at Cwm-bach, Aberdare, 1856-8; Neath, 1858-61; and Glyn-neath, 1861-70. He died 21 June 1870. Amongst his works are Marwnad Joel Jones; Coffadwriaeth y Cyfiawn neu sylwedd pregeth … ar farw Dafydd Jones o Gaerdydd a Stephen Edwards o Rymni; Cofiant … James Davies, gweinidog y Bedyddwyr yn yn Cincinatti, Ohio; Deigryn ar ol Cyfaill … John Jones
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 (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
JAMES, WILLIAM (1848 - 1907), Unitarian minister, schoolmaster, and public worker Born at Camnant-fach, Pontshân, Llandysul, 13 April 1848. He was educated at Pontshân school under Thomas Thomas and went to Carmarthen Presbyterian College at the age of 15 - Carmarthen (1863-6), Manchester New College, London (1866-9), Edinburgh (1869-70); he graduated B.A. London in 1871. He was an assistant master under T. Thomas (1870-1), and under G. Heaviside at Coventry, 1872. In 1873 he
JANNER, BARNETT (BARON JANNER), (1892 - 1982), politician unsympathetic to her stepson. Barnett Janner was educated at Holton Road School and then he spent a year in Cardiff with the family of Israel Cohen while studying for his Barmitzvah. He entered Barry County School as a scholarship boy at the age of thirteen; Major Edgar Jones, the headmaster, became a great influence on the young Janner. Throughout his life, Janner kept a photograph of Edgar Jones on his desk
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
JARDINE, JAMES (bu farw 1737), Independent minister Born at Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire, son of a successful farmer. He became a member at Henllan or Rhydyceisiaid, Carmarthenshire. In 1720 he was a minister at Denbigh. He married the daughter of his predecessor Thomas Baddy. He died in 1737 and was buried at Whitchurch, Denbigh. David Jardine was his son.
JARMAN, ALFRED OWEN HUGHES (1911 - 1998), Welsh scholar Alfred (Fred) Jarman was born in Bangor 8 October 1911, the eldest of the three children of Thomas Jarman, a shop keeper from Newtown, Montgomeryshire, and his wife Flora. He was educated at Cae Top primary school and Friars' Grammar School Bangor, and then at the University College of North Wales, Bangor where he graduated with first-class honours in Welsh in 1932 and in English the following

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