Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin

Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin

Alfred Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin (29 October 1900 – 20 August 1980) was best known as a historian with a particular interest in Cornish mining, publishing The Cornish Miner, now a classic, in 1927.

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