Kathryn Jenkins

JENKINS, Kathryn. b. Tonypandy, Rhondda, 9 June 1961; d. Llangybi, Ceredigion, 3 May 2009. Kathryn Jenkins was nurtured spiritually at Bethania Welsh Presbyterian church, Llwynypia. She went on to study Welsh at Aberystwyth under the prolific author and staunch Calvinist, Professor Bobi Jones, achieving a first-class honours degree in 1982 before embarking on a doctoral dissertation on ‘Yr Emyn a Williams Pantycelyn’ (The Hymn and Williams Pantycelyn), which she submitted in 1987. For part of this period, she held a Sir John Rhŷs scholarship at Jesus College, Oxford. She was appointed to a Fellowship in the Department of Welsh at Aberystwyth and then to the post of Lecturer in Welsh at St...