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Ann Trevenen Jenkin (born April 1930) is a Cornish bard, activist, author and a founding member of Mebyon Kernow. She was the first female Grand Bard of the Gorsedh Kernow, serving between 1997 and 2000, and took the bardic name Bryallen, meaning 'primrose'.

Biography
Trevenen Jenkin was born in April 1930 in London before her family moved back to Cornwall in 1933. In 1938, the family moved to Redruth. Trevenen Jenkin said she remembered hearing Falmouth Docks being bombed during the Second World War.

Trevenen Jenkin listed Robert Morton Nance as an important influence, as well as Henry Jenner. She and Helena Charles had Cornish lessons with Morton Nance in Carbis Bay.

After encouragement from Morton Nance, Trevenen Jenkin

She was also the archivist of Gorsedh Kernow. The Ann Trevenen Jenkin Cup, awarded by Gorsedh Kernow to books produced for children and young adults, is named after her.https://stivestowncouncil-cornwall.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/News-Views-X-13.08.2020.pdf

In 1996, Trevenen Jenkin wrote the obituaries of Margaret Pollard and Peter Pool, both fellow Cornish activists and bards, for The Independent.

Personal life
Trevenen Jenkin married Richard Jenkin in. They had four children, Morwenna, Loveday, Gawen and Conran, and five grandchildren, Trystan, Riwana, Mark, Talwyn and Trifina. Richard was also a founding member of Mebyon Kernow and was Gorsedh Kernow's Grand Bard between 1976 and 1982 and again between 1985 and 1988. He died in 2002; at the time, Ann commented that while "his contribution to the Cornish language and culture was huge, ... his family are mourning him as a husband, father and grandfather".

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