David Jenkins (librarian)
David Jenkins Blaenclydach, Rhondda, Wales | |
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| Died | 6 March 2002 (aged 89) Aberystwyth, Wales |
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David Jenkins
CBE (29 May 1912 – 6 March 2002) was the Librarian of the National Library of Wales from 1969 to 1979 and author of an official history of the library.[1]
Biography
Jenkins was born in
DLitt Wales was conferred on him.[2]
He was employed at the National Library of Wales in 1939 as an assistant in the Department of
Manuscripts. Conscripted into the Army, he served during World War II as a major in north-western Europe, "taking part in the liberation of Paris and the push into Germany and Poland, where he was among the first British soldiers to reach the concentration camps".[1] He resumed his career at the National Library, becoming an Assistant Keeper in the Department of Printed Books from 1949 to 1957. He was later appointed Keeper, 1957–1962, Senior Keeper, 1962–1969, and, finally, Librarian, 1969–1979.[1][3]
He was the editor of the Welsh Books Council from 1974 to 1980.[1]
Jenkins received a
CBE in 1977. His history of the National Library, A Refuge in Peace and War, was written over a 20-year period.[1]
He died, aged 89, in Aberystwyth on 6 March 2002.[1][4]
Personal life
Jenkins married Menna Rhys, the only daughter of the Rev. Owen Evans Williams of Penrhyn-coch, in 1948. They had one son and one daughter.[5]
Bibliography
- A Refuge in Peace and War: The National Library of Wales to 1952 (NLW, 2002)
- Thomas Gwynn Jones (Gwasg Gee, 1973)
- Bro a Bywyd Thomas Gwynn Jones 1871-1949 (Cyngor Y Celfyddydau, 1984)
- Bro Dafydd ap Gwilym (Cymdeithas Lyfrau Ceredigion, 1992)
- O Blas Gogerddan i Horeb (Taith Dwy Ganrif) (Gwasg Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, 1993)
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Stephens, Meic "Obituary: David Jenkins". The Independent. 8 March 2002.[dead link]
- ^ Roberts, Brynley Francis. Jenkins, David (1912-2002) Monograph in online Dictionary of Welsh Biography at National Library of Wales
- ^ "Jenkins, David (1914–2002)". Ceredigion County Council. Archived from the original on 9 June 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2009.
- ^ "Bedd Dr David Jenkins (1912–2002), Horeb, Penrhyn-coch". Llwyngwair.
- ^ Who Was Who? A & C Black London (2003) incorporated in Who Was Who Volume 11 (2001–2005), Bloomsbury Publishing London (2006)
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