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{{Short description|Welsh historian and academic}}
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'''Robert Thomas Jenkins''' [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (31 August 1881 – 11 November 1969) 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]] (1904), in [[Brecon]] (1904 to 1917) and at the [[Cardiff High School|City of Cardiff High School for Boys]] (1917 to 1930). Whilst he was a teacher, his interest in history deepened and he began to start writing articles on historical topics.

In 1928, he published a history of Wales in the 18th century, with further books following in 1930, the year that he was appointed a lecturer at the University of Wales Bangor. He was assistant editor, then joint editor, of ''{{lang|cy|Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig}}'' and its English-language counterpart, ''[[Dictionary of Welsh Biography|The Dictionary of Welsh Biography]]'', writing over 600 entries. He was appointed to a professorship at Bangor in 1945 and retired from the university in 1948, although he continued to work.

He co-wrote a history of the [[Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion]] in 1951, the year of its 200th anniversary.<ref>{{cite book |first1=R.T. |last1=Jenkins |first2=Helen M. |last2=Ramage |title=A History of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion and of the Gwyneddigion and Cymreigyddion Societies (1751-1951) |place=London |publisher=Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion |series=Y Cymmrodor |volume=50 |year=1951 }}</ref> He was awarded the [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire|CBE]] in 1956. He died on 11 November 1969.<ref>{{cite DWB|id=s2-JENK-THO-1881|title=Jenkins, Robert Thomas (1881–1969), historian, man of letters, editor of Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig and the ''Dictionary of Welsh Biography''|last=Williams|first=John Gwynn|year=2001|accessdate=19 February 2009}}</ref>

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