Ann Trevenen Jenkin

[3][4] She was featured in the BBC Radio 4 programme Last Word on 26 April 2024, when host Matthew Bannister discussed her life with her daughter Loveday Jenkin.

Her father, John Arnold Trevenen, was a Cornish solicitor, and her mother, Dorothy Goldsmith, was from Somerset.

Ann was educated in Redruth and spent some time as a boarder at Truro High School during World War II.

[2] Jenkin was one of the thirteen people present at the founding meeting of Mebyon Kernow (MK), at the Oates Temperance Hotel in Redruth on 6 January 1951.

[6] She was appointed a bard of Gorsedh Kernow in 1957, taking the bardic name Bryallen (meaning primrose in Cornish).

[2] After a career break while her children were young, Jenkin taught at Camborne Girls' Grammar School from the 1970s until she retired in 1987.