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JENKINS, TITUS (1804 - 1834), Baptist minister - gweler JENKINS, JOHN
JENKINS, WALTER (bu farw 1661), early Welsh Quaker Born in the mansion of Pant, Llanfihangel Ystum ('Ystern') Llewern, Monmouthshire, son of Thomas Jenkins, squire and rector of that parish (died 1649). The son met George Fox, so Fox says, in a conference in Leicestershire in 1655. When in 1657 Fox visited South Wales, ' Justice Jenkins ' was with him at a meeting in a church somewhere between Brecon and Pontypool. He suffered for his Quakerism
JENKINS, Sir WILLIAM ALBERT (1878 - 1968), shipbroker and politician Born in Swansea 9 September 1878, son of Daniel and Elizabeth Ann Jenkins. He married, 1906, Beatrice (died 1967), daughter of Frederick and Elizabeth Tyler, Pirbright, Surrey. He was prominent in the Welsh coal industry as principal of William A. Jenkins and Company, Wholesale Coal and Coke Factors, and also as a shipbroker. He won recognition in many European countries for his commercial
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, GRIFFITH (1831 - 1912), missionary , 25 July, at the age of 80, and was buried at Sketty, Swansea. In 1874 he had married Mrs. Jenkins, a missionary's widow, who predeceased him in 1885. He was the author of A voice from China and other books.
JOHN, JAMES MANSEL (1910 - 1975), Baptist minster and college professor Erbury under the supervision of Dr Claude Jenkins when he received a call to pastor Alfred Place English Baptist church in Aberystwyth. He accepted the call and was ordained there in 1937, with Principals Wheeler Robinson and Nathaniel Micklem from Oxford preaching the charges to the new minister and to the church. While a minister in Aberystwyth, Mansel John also lectured in the extra-mural department
JOHNES, ARTHUR JAMES (1809 - 1871), county court judge at one time his district extended from Holyhead to Hay. He devoted himself to his work with great earnestness, but his interests were by no means confined to his professional duties. He was associated with such literary clerics as Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri), and Thomas Richards, and was one of the promoters of the Cambrian Quarterly Magazine (1830-3). In 1831 he won
JONES, EDWARD (1741? - 1806), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter one of the two founders of the C.M. cause there, but better known for his failings than for his virtues. He was from Llansannan, Denbighshire, and D.E. Jenkins concluded that he was the ' Edward, son of John Edwards, Arllwyd ' who was christened there 1 April 1741; this, indeed, would tally with the 'about 60' which is given as his age in the legal proceedings early in 1801. He joined the Life
JONES, ELIZABETH MAY WATKIN (1907 - 1965), teacher and campaigner supporters of the plan to submerge the valley. In spite of the successes, the struggle was at times bitter. Some responses were disappointing: Elizabeth would surely have been angered to hear that Bala Town Council refused to oppose the plan during a meeting in October 1956; or that the scholar R. T. Jenkins, who had been raised in Bala and who wrote to her on 26 April 1956, did not have 'a very strong
JONES, IEUAN SAMUEL (1918 - 2004), minister (Cong.) included several books, but also the letters and notes of different missionaries who had served in different parts of the world. Ieuan was held in high esteem by members of the Council for World Mission (CWM) worldwide. He served on many of the Council's committees and sub-committees, at times as chairperson. He accompanied the Reverend Emlyn Jenkins to the important discussions at Singapore over the New
JONES, JOHN (EMLYN) (Ioan Emlyn; 1818 - 1873), Baptist minister, poet, and man of letters Fawr (by Titus Lewis), published Tiriad y Ffrancodym Mhencaer in 1856 and Gramadeg Cerddorol in 1860, not to speak of other books. He undertook the resumption of Y Parthsyllydd, a large-scale treatise on geography which had been begun by John Jenkins of Hengoed and Thomas Williams (Gwilym Morgannwg), but failed to complete it (it was completed in 1875 by J. Spinther James). Two bardic chairs fell to
JONES, JOHN (1773 - 1853), cleric Tremeirchion, 1797-99, and then in Llanyblodwel near Oswestry. While he was there he met Walter Davies, ' Gwallter Mechain ', John Jenkins, ' Ifor Ceri ' and others of the circle of 'literary parsons' and thereafter he became one of the circle. From Llanyblodwel he went to Wrexham as a curate but in 1811 he was ordained vicar of Llansilin parish. In 1819 he was appointed secretary of the Cambrian Society of

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