John Geraint Jenkins

John Geraint Jenkins (1929 – 15 August 2009) was a native Welsh speaker, maritime historian and historian of rural crafts.

Early life, education and career Jenkins was born in 1929 into a Welsh-speaking "seafaring" family based near Llangrannog in Ceredigion; he attended the village school and Cardigan Grammar School, before completing his university education at the University Colleges of Wales at Swansea and Aberystwyth.

Death and legacy Jenkins died on 15 August 2009, leaving a widow, Nansi, and two sons; another son, had died in 2000. According to his obituary in The Independent, "Geraint Jenkins played a leading role in the preservation and interpretation of the maritime history of Wales. He published more than 50 books, many to do with the seafaring traditions of west Wales, and was an acknowledged authority on the subject. He also made expert studies of other aspects of Welsh folk life, including traditional farm implements, rural crafts, the woollen industry and Cardiff ship-owners."

Selected works The English Farm Wagon (1961) The Welsh Woollen Industry (1969) Crefftwyr Gwlad [Country Craftsmen] (1971) Nets and Coracles (1974) Life and Tradition in Rural Wales (1976) The Inshore Fishermen of Wales (1991) Traddodiad y Môr [The Maritime Tradition] (2004) Welsh Ships and Sailing Men (2005) Ar Lan Hen Afon [On the Bank of an Old River] (2005) Y Cwrwgl [The Coracle] (2006)