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:
- H.E.A.C., i, 49;
- N.L.W. MS. 9261;
- J.T.J., i, 597.
Author:
Rev. John Dyfnallt Owen, M.A., (1873-1956), Aberystwyth
