Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRIFFITHS, EVAN (Ieuan Ebblig; 1795 - 1873), Independent minister school at Newport, Monmouth, kept by Jenkin Lewis. At the end of this period he was recommended by his teacher to lady Diana Barham as a suitable person to take charge of two Independent churches, Pilton Green and Park Mill, in Gower. He commenced his ministry 3 May 1822. He resigned his pastorate, 4 August 1828, and removed to Swansea to work on the translation of Mathew Henry's Commentary into Welsh
GRIFFITHS, JAMES (JEREMIAH) (1890 - 1975), Labour politician and cabinet minister Breconshire. But political life still held centre-stage in his affections. He had joined the Independent Labour Party as early as 1905 and he served as secretary to the Ammanford Trades Council, 1916-19. He served as Labour Party agent in the Llanelli constituency, 1922-25, and was a local miners' agent, 1925-36 to the Anthracite Miners' Association. In a by-election in March 1936 Griffiths succeeded Dr J
GRIFFITHS, JOHN POWELL (1875 - 1944), minister (Baptist) and schoolmaster Pontrhydfendigaid, Ceredigion in 1870, moving to be pastor of Horeb, Skewen, in 1874. He married a Miss Powell from Llanybydder, and it was her surname that was given as a Christian name on the eldest of their three children. Powell Griffiths was born in his grandparents' home in Llanybydder on 25 September 1875 but brought up in Skewen. He received his early education in the National School in Skewen and the
GRIFFITHS, PHILIP JONES (1936 - 2008), photographer education to the public in the art and science of photography, promoting lectures and exhibitions and research opportunities, and providing financial assistance, equipment or books to persons under 25 to assist them to become photographers. His archive currently resides in the National Library of Wales where a major exhibition of his work was held in 2015.
GRIFFITHS, THOMAS (1645 - 1725) Delaware, first minister of the Welsh Tract Baptist church small group of church members who emigrated to America in 1701, settling first at Penepek, Pennsylvania, and in 1703 at Welsh Tract. He died 25 July 1725, aged eighty, and was buried, according to some writers, at Penepek, but according to others (more probably) at Pencader, Delaware. He was the father-in-law of Abel Morgan.
GRIFFITHS, WILLIAM (1859 - 1940), Unitarian minister and Hebrew scholar Born at Cwmllynfell and educated at Gwynfryn school, Carmarthen Presbyterian College (1882-6), and Yale, U.S.A. (1886-91 or 92) where he graduated B.D. and Ph.D. In his early days he was an Independent, but on his return to Wales from the U.S.A. he became a Unitarian, was a missionary in North Wales (1892-3), minister at Pontypridd (1893-1900), and later minister of a number of Unitarian churches
GRUFFUDD ap NICOLAS (fl. 1415-1460), esquire and a leading figure in the local administration of the principality of South Wales in the middle of the 15th century THOMAS escheator for Cardiganshire. In 1442-3, he again came to the notice of the authorities in London, when he and the abbot of Whitland were summoned to the metropolis and the Privy Council ordered the arrest of his son Owen. Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, was his patron, and he received, 24 July 1443, the custody of the lordship of Caron and the commote of Pennarth during the minority of Maud
GRUFFYDD ap IEUAN ap LLYWELYN FYCHAN (c. 1485 - 1553), bard and member of a Welsh landed family Mostyn (family) of Mostyn; see also lord Mostyn and T. Allen Glenn, History of the Family of Mostyn of Mostyn (London, 1925). His will, dated 11 March 1553, was made at Henllan, Denbighshire, and was proved 3 May 1553.
GRUFFYDD ap RHYS (d. 1201), prince of Deheubarth - Maelgwn, his brother, and Gwenwynwyn of Powys, so that to the end his hold on his inheritance was uncertain. His career is in a sense the prelude to those mutually destructive family feuds which brought about the final collapse of the house of Dinefwr. In 1189 he married Matilda, daughter of William de Braose, who, with two young sons, Rhys Ieuanc and Owen, survived his death on 25 July 1201. Both he
GRYFFYTH, JASPER (d. 1614), cleric, warden of Ruthin hospital, chaplain to archbishop Bancroft, collector of manuscripts proved 28 May, and he was buried in the chancel of Hinckley parish church, 25 May. He names his wife, Mary, his son Bartholomew, and his daughters Elizabeth, Marye, and Anne, with a suggestion that the children were minors. His wife was a daughter of John Roberts of Park, Llanfrothen. In a letter to Sir Robert Cotton, 1613, Jasper Gryffyth lists forty Latin manuscripts in his possession, and other
GWENFREWI (fl. early 7th century), saint , Gwytherin, and Shrewsbury spread far afield, and the saint attracted the interest of the native bard and hagiologist. Twice in this later period, her principal festival on 3 November was declared a holy day by archiepiscopal decree.
GWILYM ap IEUAN HEN (fl. c. 1440-1480), poet No details remain of his life, although many of his poems are found in manuscripts. These include a poem in praise of the Virgin Mary (NLW MS 6681B (381)) and another to the 'Four Daughters of the Trinity' (NLW MS 1578B (71)), love poems (Gwysaney MS. 25 (201); NLW MS 5269B (211)); Wynnstay MS. 6 (170)), others addressed to Gruffudd ap Nicolas of Dynevor (NLW MS 6511B (194b)), Dafydd ap Ieuan ab

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