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Robert Thomas Jenkins

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According to Wikipedia, Robert Thomas Jenkins CBE was a Welsh historian and academic. Life Jenkins was born on 31 August 1881 in Liverpool. He moved with his family to Bangor, Gwynedd, when his father was appointed clerk to the registrar of the newly established University College of North Wales. However, both of his parents had died by 1888 and he was then brought up by his maternal grandparents in Bala, Gwynedd. He was baptised by Thomas Charles Edwards and studied at Bala Grammar School before winning a scholarship to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, obtaining a first-class degree in English in 1901. He then studied history and English at Trinity College, Cambridge before teaching in Llandysul , in Brecon and at the City of Cardiff High School for Boys . Whilst he was a teacher, his interest in history deepened and he began to start writing articles on historical topics.

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