Richard Jenkin

Richard Garfield Jenkin (9 October 1925 – 29 October 2002), was a Cornish politician who was involved with Cornish nationalism projects as one of the founder members of the Cornish political party Mebyon Kernow. He was also a Grand Bard of the Gorseth Kernow.

Jenkin was born on 9 October 1925 in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, where his Cornish father was in training as a clergyman. He was proud of his Cornish identity.

In 1947 Jenkin was made a Bard of the Gorseth Kernow through Cornish language qualification, while serving in the British Army. He chose the Bardic name “Son of Exile” (Map Dyvroeth). He was a Grand Bard of the Gorseth Kernow twice, between 1976 and 1982 and between 1985 and 1988.

In 1951, he was one of the founder members of the Cornish political party Mebyon Kernow. Richard and his wife Ann Jenkin produced a magazine in 1952 called New Cornwall, which publicised Mebyon Kernow news and policies. He was chairman of Mebyon Kernow in 1973 and became its life president in 1998.

Jenkin fought two Westminster parliamentary elections (Falmouth and Camborne in 1970 and St Ives 1983).

In 1979 he stood for the European parliamentary constituency on a platform of a “Cornwall Only” seat rather than one shared with part of Devon and polled 10,205 votes, 5.9% of the total vote.

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