Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GAMBOLD family history of Pembrokeshire have been preserved in the Moravian archives at Haverfordwest (Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, iv, nos. 1 and 2). It is just possible, though unlikely, that he was the William Gambold named at the beginning of the present notice; but by 1770, at latest, he was farming near Llawhaden. He was still alive in 1794.
GEORGE, THOMAS NEVILLE (1904 - 1980), Professor of Geology palaeontology to technical journals. He married during summer 1932, Sarah Hannah Davies, MA, PhD, a university lecturer; they had no children. He died at 1 Princess Terrace, Glasgow, on 8 June 1980.
GIFFORD, ISABELLA (c. 1825 - 1891), botanist and algologist visitor recorded his visit to her parents at Minehead; the botanist and archaeologist Charles Cardale Babington (1808-1895) called to have tea with Captain and Mrs Gifford on the evening of 2 July 1849. When he returned there again the following summer, he also noted the name of 'Miss Gifford' in his diary. Isabella was clearly beginning to attract the attention of experts in the field which most
GILBERTSON, LEWIS (1814 - 1896), cleric, vice-principal of Jesus College, Oxford -principal, 1855-72. He was made vicar of the new parish of Elerch, April 1869, but, as patron, he appointed his successor, November 1870. In that year he was made rector of Braunston, near Rugby [a College living], which he held until his retirement in 1893. He retired to Aberystwyth and died 2 April 1896.
GILLHAM, MARY ELEANOR (1921 - 2013), naturalist and educator before. With her new-found time she expanded her travel, and began turning 30 years' worth of notes into books. After nearly 50 years of working to protect and rehabilitate nature she was awarded an MBE for services to nature conservation in 2009. Mary Gillham died in the Royal Glamorgan hospital, Cardiff on 23 March 2013, aged 91 and was cremated at Thornhill Crematorium on 8 April. After her death
GIVVONS, ALEXANDER (1913 - 2002), rugby player Alexander Givvons was born on 2 November 1913 in Pillgwenlly, Newport, Monmouthshire, the eldest child of Alexander Givvons (b. 1888), a merchant seaman from St Thomas in the West Indies, and his wife Johanna Dunn (1896-1987). He had five siblings, including a half-brother Trevor Williams (b. 1925) from his mother's second marriage. He was known as Alex (pronounced Alec). Alex attended Holy Cross
GLENN, THOMAS ALLEN (1864 - 1948), soldier, historian, genealogist, and archaeologist Born 8 January 1864 in Pennsylvania, the son of Edward and Sarah Catherine Glenn, British subjects. Glenn had a distinguished military career both in America and in Britain. By 1903 he was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the American army, but he resigned from the U.S.A. services in 1905 and came to reside in Wales. He served as an officer in World War I and held a commission in the Home Guard in World
GLYNNE family successfully sought the favour in turn of Cromwell and of king Charles II. During the Commonwealth he held the various offices of serjeant at law, judge of assize, and Lord Chief Justice of the Upper Bench. Adhering to the Presbyterian party from 1645, he incurred the ill-favour of the army, and on a charge of treason he was expelled from the House and committed to the Tower, 8 September 1647, where he
GODWIN, JUDITH (d. 1746), one of Howel Harris's correspondents Her maiden name was Weaver, and it is often (but incorrectly) said that she was the daughter of John Weaver (died 1712), Puritan minister at New Radnor and afterwards at Hereford; it is however very probable that she belonged to the same family and was born in Radnorshire. She married (1) Samuel Jones (1680? - 1719), of Tewkesbury, and (2) in 1721, Edward Godwin (1680? - 1764), a prominent
GOLDSWAIN, BRYNLEY VERNON (1922 - 1983), rugby league player Community Home, Newton-le-Willows, a residential school for young offenders on the outskirts of Liverpool. He married Margaret Magdalen Muriel Vaughan (1921-2000) at St. Michael's Church, Aberystwyth on July 24, 1942. In the church register Goldswain's address is given as 15 Morgans Street, Abercrave, and his spouse was a daughter of Roderick Charles Vaughan, a postman, of 8 Gogerddan Cottages
GOODEN, JAMES (1670 - 1730), Jesuit Born in Denbighshire, 1670. He was educated at S. Omer College and was admitted a member of the society of Jesus, 2 February 1706-7. For some years he was professor of mathematics and philosophy at Liége and, from 1721-2 to 1728 was warden of S. Omer College. He is known to have written two books: Anathemata Poetica Serenissimo Walliae Principi Jacobi regis, … etc. (S. Omer, 1688), and
GOULD, ARTHUR JOSEPH (1864 - 1919), Rugby footballer famous. Between 1885 and 1897 he represented Wales on twenty-seven occasions. Gould was gifted with tremendous speed and was always a prolific scorer and, for some time, held the record with forty-four tries in one season against the principal Welsh clubs. He played for Newport during the greatest part of his career, but he had also played for Richmond (1886-7) and Middlesex (1887-8). In his day Gould

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