Kathryn Jenkins

Kathryn Jenkins (9 June 1961 – 3 May 2009) was a scholar of Welsh language and culture, especially local hymnology. She was also a hymn writer in Welsh.

Life Kathryn Jenkins was born in Tonypandy, Wales, the only child of Clement Jenkins, engineer, and Marion Jenkins. Although her parents spoke only a little Welsh, they were active members of Bethania, the Presbyterian church in Llwynypia, where Welsh was spoken and where Kathryn first learned about Welsh hymnological tradition, the subject of her life's work.

Education Jenkins was enrolled in the local Tonypandy grammar school in 1972 and left in 1979 having gained A level certificates in music, having become a skilled pianist and organist. At Aberystwyth University, she graduated in 1982 with a first-class degree in Welsh and immediately thereafter, having received a British Academy research scholarship, Jenkins became a research student at the same university, working there from 1982–1985.

Selected publications A list of her publications in Bulletin of the Welsh Hymn Society, IV, 3-4 Jenkins, Kathryn, and Rhidian Griffiths. Cân y Ffydd: Ysgrifau ar Emynyddiaeth. Caernarfon: Cymdeithas Emynau Cymru mewn cydweithrediad â Gwasg y Bwthyn, 2011. Print.