William Vaughan Jenkins

JENKINS, William Vaughan. b. Bristol, 6 Sept 1868; d. Bitton, near Bristol, 30 June 1920. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School, and became a Chartered Accountant. He was a member of the National Council of Adult School Unions, and Secretary of its Bristol branch. He was an active member of several local churches, including Tyndale Baptist Church and Highbury Congregational Church. At some time he went to live at Bitton, six miles east of Bristol. After his death, a collection of his writings, supplemented by those of his daughter Gladys Vaughan Jenkins (most written when she was a child) and edited by L.A.V.J. [L.A. Vaughan Jenkins], appeared with the title Grave and Gay...

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