Rev. John Jenkins, also known as Gwili.

John Jenkins, poet and theologian, was born in 1872 at Hendy, Carmarthenshire. He received his education at the Baptist College in Bangor, the University College Cardiff and Jesus College, Oxford.

As well as being a lecturer at Bangor Theological School, he also served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod between 1932 and 1936 and was the Crowned Bard of the 1901 National Eisteddfod.

He is the author of Hanfod Duw a Pherson Crist (1931), a history of theology in Wales and also of Caniadau (1934) and Poems (1920) - two collections of poetry, one in Welsh, the other in English.

Rev. John Jenkins died in 1936.

For further biographical information consult Gwili : Cofiant a Phregethau by E. Cefni Jones (1937)

From the guide to the Gwili Letters, 1904 December 31 - 1936 March 17, (Bangor University)