JARDINE
,
DAVID
(
1732
-
1766
),
Independent minister and head of an academy
;
b. at
Denbigh
, son of
James
Jardine
(q.v.)
. He was a student at the
Carmarthen Academy
,
1752-4
, and was ordained at
Abergavenny
,
1754
, where he also
started a school
. Because of a controversy over the question of doctrine taught at the
Carmarthen Academy
the
Congregational Board
(
London
) refused to give that institution a financial grant;
Jardine
was recommended as
tutor
of the
Board's Academy
in
Wales
,
27 Feb. 1757
, and was appointed
head of the new Academy
at
Abergavenny
,
7 March 1757
, with
Benjamin
Davies
(
1739?
-
1817
) (q.v.)
as his
assistant
.
Jardine
continued to
minister
to the church at
Abergavenny
and to be
head of the Academy
until he d.
1 Oct. 1766
. He m. the daughter of
Lewis
Jones
,
Bridgend, Glam.
(
1702?
-
1772
) (q.v.)
.
David
Jardine
was an excellent
teacher
and many of his students became prominent amongst
Congregationalists
.
Bibliography:
-
Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru
, i, 49;
-
National Library of Wales Manuscript
9261;
-
Geiriadur Bywgraffyddol o Enwogion
Cymru
, i, 597.
Author:
Rev. John Dyfnallt Owen, M.A., (1873-1956), Aberystwyth
