Education
Born in Pant-y-beiliau, Llanelli, he was educated at Rugby School and Wadham College, Oxford.
Born in Pant-y-beiliau, Llanelli, he was educated at Rugby School and Wadham College, Oxford.
He took his Bachelor of Arts in 1868 and Master of Arts in 1870. He was a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford between 1868 and 1873. From 1879 to 1886, Jayne was Principal of Street David"s College, a university institution in the small Welsh town of Lampeter.
During his time there, he steered the institution through the difficult years following the 1880 Aberdare report on intermediate and higher education in Wales.
The report recommended that the Colleges at Aberystwyth and Lampeter be united to form one institution, but Jayne fought the plan and retained Saint David"s College"s independence. A devoutly religious man, Jayne left Lampeter to become an Anglican vicar in Leeds.
He became Bishop of Chester in 1889, a position he held until 1919. He died at Oswestry, and was buried at Bowdon, Cheshire.