John Jones Jenkins, 1st Baron Glantawe

John Jones Jenkins, 1st Baron Glantawe (10 May 1835 – 27 July 1915) was a Welsh tin-plate manufacturer and Liberal politician. Having commenced working at the Upper Forest Tinplate Works in Morriston, at the age of fifteen, he ended his life as one of the wealthiest men in Glamorgan.[1]

Sir John Jones Jenkins
Lord Glantawe caricatured by WHO for Vanity Fair, 16 November 1910

Background

Jenkins was the son of Jenkin Jenkins of Morriston, Glamorgan, and his wife, Sarah Jones.

Business career

Jenkins was co-founder and manager of the Beaufort Tinplate Works at Morriston in 1859, where he was chief manager and partner until 1869.

Political career

Jenkins was a Justice of the Peace for Swansea and Carmarthenshire and Mayor of Swansea three times, in 1869, 1879 and 1880. He was knighted on 17 May 1882.[2][3] He stood unsuccessfully for parliament at Carmarthen in 1880, but was elected Member of Parliament for the constituency in a by-election in 1882.

Jenkins held the seat until 1886 when he joined the Liberal Unionist party in opposition to Home Rule for Ireland but lost against an official Liberal Party candidate. In 1889, he was High Sheriff of Glamorgan. Jenkins was invited by J. F. Morris to stand as the Liberal Unionist candidate for Carmarthen in 1895 and subsequently held the seat until 1900.[4][5]

On 18 July 1906 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Glantawe, of Swansea in the County of Glamorgan.[6]

Personal life

Lord Glantawe married, firstly, Margaret Rees, daughter of Josiah Rees, on 20 January 1854. She died after 9 years of marriage. He married, secondly, Catherine Prudence Daniel, daughter of Edward Daniel, on 10 May 1864 at Llansamlet, Glamorgan. Jenkins had two daughters by his second wife -- Olga Violet Jenkins, Mrs Daniell (b. 1878) and Alina Kate Elaine Jenkins, Lady Bledisloe (b. 1880) -- but had no male heir. (Alina married Lord Bledisloe in 1928 and died in 1956.)[7][8][9]

Glantawe died, aged 80, at The Grange, West Cross in Swansea, now the site of the Territorial Army base, and was buried at Oystermouth Cemetery. The peerage died with him as he had left no male heir.

References
  1. "Death of Lord Glantawe. Venerable Baron Expires in His Eightieth Year. From the Tinworks to Leadership of Trade". Cambria Daily Leader. 27 July 1915. p. 6. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
  2. "No. 25110". The London Gazette. 23 May 1882. p. 2409.
  3. Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886. Accessed 25 January 2023.
  4. "Leigh Rayment". Archived from the original on 31 October 2018. Retrieved 19 September 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  5. "CARMARTHEN BOROUGHS: THE UNIONIST CANDIDATE". South Wales Daily News. 2 July 1895. Retrieved 5 August 2023 – via National Library of Wales.
  6. "No. 27933". The London Gazette. 20 July 1906. p. 4973.
  7. Marshall, Russell (1998). "Bledisloe, Charles Bathurst". teara.govt.nz. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
  8. Wilson, James. "BLEDISLOE, Charles Bathurst, P.C., G.C.M.G., K.B.E., First Viscount". An encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, 1966. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
  9. "Lady Bledisloe". Birmingham Daily Post. 8 February 1956. p. 18 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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