David James Jenkins (1824 - 26 February 1891)[1] was a Welsh shipowner and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1886.
He served for several years in the merchant navy and in 1854 and 1855 commanded a troop ship in the Baltic.
[2] In 1860, he founded the firm of Jenkins & Co in London which began owning ships in 1861 and sailed mainly to India and the Far East.
[5] He held the seat until the 1886 general election,[1] when he was defeated by the Conservative Party candidate William Cavendish-Bentinck.
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