Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin

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Alfred Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin (29 October 1900-(20 August 1980) was best known as a historian with a particular interest in Cornish mining, publishing The Cornish Miner, now a classic, in 1927.

He was born in Redruth in 29 October 1900. He attended University College, Oxford, where in 1919 he became a friend of the famous author, C.S. Lewis. Both were members of the Martlets Literary Society.

Jenkin was a founder bard of the Gorseth Kernow in 1928, taking the bardic name Lef Stenoryon ('Voice of the Tinners'). In 1959 he was elected President of the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies, a position he also held in 1960 and in 1962 he became its first life President.

Dr. Hamilton Jenkin was elected President of the Royal Institution of Cornwall for the years 1958, 1959 and was vice President in 1977. In 1954 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and was awarded his honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of Exeter in 1978.

He died 20 August 1980 at Trewirgie House, Redruth.

[edit] Some works

• Cornwall and Its People. 1945. J M Dent & Sons. ISBN 0-7153-4702-0
• The Cornish Miner: An account of his Life Above and Underground from Early Times. 1927. ISBN 0-7153-5486-8
• Cornish Seafarers: The Smuggling, Wrecking and Fishing Life of Cornwall. 1932. ISBN unknown
• Mines and Miners of Cornwall: Around St. Ives Pt. 1 ISBN 0-904662-04-7
• Mines and Miners of Cornwall: St.Agnes, Perranporth Pt. 2 ISBN 0-904662-05-5
• Mines and Miners of Cornwall: Around Redruth Pt. 3 ISBN 0-904662-06-3
• Mines and Miners of Cornwall: Penzance-Mount's Bay Pt. 4 ISBN 0-904662-08-X
• Mines and Miners of Cornwall: Gwinear and Gwithian Pt. 5 ISBN 0-904662-10-1
• Mines and Miners of Cornwall: Pt. 6 ISBN 0-904662-11-X
• Mines and Miners of Cornwall: Pt. 15 ISBN 0-902660-00-4
• Mines of Devon. ISBN 0-7153-6784-6

[edit] Links and references

• The Cumberland River Lamp Post (C.S. Lewis appreciation website) accessed 26 March 2008.
• Old Cornwall. Vol IX, No 4, Sping, 1981. OBIT
• ODNB Article by Justin Brooke, ‘Jenkin, (Alfred) Kenneth Hamilton (1900–1980)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [1], accessed 26 March 2008.