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John Jones Jenkins, 1st Baron Glantawe

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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
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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.
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On the dexter a dragon and on the sinister a goat both Or, suspended round the neck on each on a riband Sable a shield per pale of the last and Gules, thereon a fleur de lys Argent.
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Per pale Sable and Gules, on a chevron between two fleurs de lys in chief and a lion's gamb in base Argent, a fleur de lys Sable between two pellets..
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Jenkins was co-founder and manager of the Beaufort Tinplate Works at Morriston in 1859, where he was chief manager and partner until 1869.
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Violet Jenkins, Mrs Daniell (b. 1878) and Alina Kate Elaine Jenkins, Lady Bledisloe (b. 1880) -- but had no male heir. (Alina married
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A lion's gamb erect and erased Argent holding a pellet charged with a fleur de lys, all between two fleurs de lys Argent.
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to stand as the Liberal Unionist candidate for Carmarthen in 1895 and subsequently held the seat until 1900.
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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Carmarthenshire constituencies
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politician. Having commenced working at the Upper Forest Tinplate Works in
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but lost against an official Liberal Party candidate. In 1889, he was
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and Mayor of Swansea three times, in 1869, 1879 and 1880. He was
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on 17 May 1882. He stood unsuccessfully for parliament at
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Jenkins held the seat until 1886 when he joined the
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Liberal Unionist Party MPs for Welsh constituencies
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Sir John Jones Jenkins


Vanity Fair
Liberal
Morriston
Glamorgan
Morriston
Glamorgan
Justice of the Peace
Swansea
Carmarthenshire
knighted
Carmarthen
Member of Parliament
by-election in 1882
Liberal Unionist
Home Rule
Ireland
High Sheriff of Glamorgan
J. F. Morris
Lord Bledisloe

"Death of Lord Glantawe. Venerable Baron Expires in His Eightieth Year. From the Tinworks to Leadership of Trade"
"No. 25110"
The London Gazette
Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886
"Leigh Rayment"
cite web
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