Councillor Loveday Jenkin | |
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Councillor for Crowan, Sithney and Wendron | |
Assumed office 2021 | |
Preceded by | Division established |
Councillor for Crowan and Wendron | |
In office 2013–2021 | |
Preceded by | Division established |
Succeeded by | Division abolished |
Councillor for Wendron | |
In office 2011–2013 | |
Preceded by | Mike Clayton |
Succeeded by | Division abolished |
Leader of Mebyon Kernow | |
In office 1990–1997 | |
Preceded by | Loveday Carlyon |
Succeeded by | Dick Cole |
Personal details | |
Nationality | British |
Political party | Mebyon Kernow |
Education | Cardiff University University of Cambridge |
Occupation | Councillor |
Loveday Elizabeth Trevenen Jenkin is a politician,biologist and language campaigner. She has been a member of Cornwall Council since 2011,and currently serves as councillor for Crowan,Sithney and Wendron.
Jenkin is the daughter of Richard Jenkin and Ann Trevenen Jenkin,key figures in Cornish nationalist political party Mebyon Kernow. She attended Helston grammar school,later Helston comprehensive. Jenkin studied botany and biochemistry at Cardiff University. She later gained a doctorate in plant biochemistry from the University of Cambridge. [1] During the late 1980s and early 90s,she worked as education officer for Cornwall Wildlife Trust. [2]
In 1990,she was elected as leader of Mebyon Kernow,then at a low ebb. She served until 1997,focusing on reviving the party's electoral performance. She stood as the party's candidate for Cornwall and West Plymouth at the 1994 European election,taking 1.5% of the vote. Soon after,she was elected to Kerrier District Council,representing the Crowan district until the council was merged into Cornwall Council,a unitary authority. [2]
She subsequently stood,unsuccessfully,for Parliament on a number of occasions. At the 2010 general election,Jenkin stood in Camborne and Redruth,taking 775 votes,coming fifth of seven candidates. [3] At the 2015 general election,Jenkin again stood in Camborne and Redruth,taking 897 votes,giving her the last place of six candidates standing,but increasing her vote total and also her percentage of votes cast (+0.2%).
Jenkin was elected to Cornwall Council in a 2011 by-election,representing the Wendron district, [4] and was subsequently re-elected in 2013 and 2017 (for the Crowan and Wendron division and in 2021 (for the Crowan,Sithney and Wendron division. [5] [6] In 2014,Jenkin was selected by Mebyon Kernow to represent the party at the 2015 General Elections. [7]
Jenkin was a lecturer for the University of Exeter at the Camborne School of Mines, [2] where she undertook studies into Japanese knotweed. [8] She is also a bard of Gorsedh Kernow (with the name Myrgh An Tyr,or 'Daughter of the Country' in English), [2] [9] has served as Cornwall's Great Trees Officer for the National Trust, [10] and chairs the Cornish Language Fellowship. [11]
Jenkin has two children,who were brought up speaking Cornish as their first language. [2] She is a member of Akademi Kernewek,the official body responsible for corpus planning for the Cornish language, [12] serving on the terminology panel and the Cornish language place-names and signage panel. [13]
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Presented below is an alphabetical index of articles related to Cornwall:
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Breage,Germoe and Sithney was an electoral division of Cornwall in the United Kingdom which returned one member to sit on Cornwall Council between 2013 and 2021. It was abolished at the 2021 local elections,being succeeded by Porthleven,Breage and Germoe and Crowan,Sithney and Wendron.
Crowan,Sithney and Wendron is an electoral division of Cornwall in the United Kingdom which returns one member to sit on Cornwall Council. It was created at the 2021 local elections,being formed from the former divisions of Crowan and Wendron and Breage,Germoe and Sithney. The current councillor is Loveday Jenkin,a Mebyon Kernow member.