David Jenkins

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.

Biography Jenkins was born in Blaenclydach, Rhondda the son of an Aberaeron-born collier but, as a consequence of illness, spent most of his childhood with an aunt and uncle in Penrhyn-coch, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion.

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".

He was the editor of the Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society from 1964 to 1979, and editor of the National Library of Wales Journal from 1968 to 1979. He served as the General Commissioner of Income Tax 1968–1987 and the chairman of the Welsh Books Council from 1974 to 1980.

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.