Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GREY family (POWIS, lords of), their lord at Powis castle, he was escorted to London by Sir John Gray. His son, HENRY GRAY (c. 1420 - 1450), count of Tancarville, who married Antigone, illegitimate daughter of Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, had Sir Griffith Vaughan beheaded in the courtyard of Powis castle in 1447 in violation of a safe conduct which he had issued. The elegies written at the time by the Welsh bards reflect the
GRIDLEY, JOHN CRANDON (1904 - 1968), industrialist Europe before World War II, for whom he spent several years in France and Spain. In the 1930s he remained with the Powell Duffryn Group, becoming a director of the parent company and several subsidiaries. In 1933 he married Joan Marion Merrett, daughter of Herbert Henry Merrett. They had two sons, Richard Crandon and Christopher John. The marriage ended in divorce in 1950, and he remarried in 1951. In
GRIFFITH family PENRHYN, Gwilym's hands. In all, Gwilym ap Griffith appears to have succeeded, through his father's marriage, his own, and the effects of the Glyndŵr rebellion, in gaining control of most of the patrimony of the Tudors; not the least important of the probable consequences was the departure of Owain Tudor to seek his fortunes at the court of Henry V. The date of death of Gwilym's first wife is not known. Some time
GRIFFITH family Carreg-lwyd, ), a solicitor, was at one time secretary to Henry earl of Northampton. EDMUND GRIFFITH (1559 - 1617), another son of William Griffith, was born in 1559, he went to S. Edmund Hall, Oxford, 1577 (B.A. 1580), was ordained priest 1583, and became rector of Newborough 1596, and Llanbeulan 1610. He died before 16 May 1617. He is sometimes confused with bishop Edmund Griffith. ROBERT GRIFFITH (died 1630
GRIFFITH, ELIZABETH (1727 - 1793), author Born in Glamorgan on 11 October 1727. Little is known of her before her marriage to Richard Griffith, an Irishman, c. 1752. Thereafter she acted on the Dublin and London stage and in 1757 published A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances, which was at once a novel and a selection in two volumes of correspondence between Richard Griffith and herself before marriage. She wrote many
GRIFFITH, JOHN (Y Gohebydd; 1821 - 1877), newspaper correspondent, campaigner for education, and principal mover in re-establishing the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion college council. He worked for the Liberal candidates in the 1868 election, and later was the driving force in the society set up to defend and support the Cardiganshire tenants who were turned out of their farms after the election. He also supported the efforts of Henry Richard to secure the secret ballot. He was a zealous champion of the eisteddfod and was the principal mover in re-establishing the
GRIFFITH, PIRS (1568 - 1628), squire and adventurer involved Pirs in crippling financial penalties is not clear, but there is no doubt that the years 1600-1612 saw him dissipating his estate by a series of heavy mortgages to London capitalists like the Myddeltons and the Batemans; in September 1614, he mortgaged a large part of his Cororion lands to Henry Rowlands, bishop of Bangor. His affairs went to the court of chancery in 1616; it was reported that
GRIFFITHS, ARCHIBALD REES (1902 - 1971), painter Archie Griffiths was born at Aberdare on 12 January 1902, one of the five children of William Henry and Sarah Jane Griffiths. The family, which was Welsh-speaking, soon moved to Gorseinon, where the father found work as a collier. On leaving school, Archie Griffiths was employed for two years in the tinplate industry and then joined his father at the Mountain Colliery. According to his own
GRIFFITHS, ERNEST HOWARD (1851 - 1932), physicist and educationalist Born at Brecon, 15 June 1851, son of Henry Griffiths. He was educated at Owens College, Manchester, and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (Sc.D., 1902), of which he was elected a Fellow and later an Honorary Fellow. In 1890 he carried out heat measurements of fundamental importance, culminating in 1893 in the determination of the mechanical equivalent of heat by the electrical method. He was
GRIFFITHS, EVAN (Ieuan Ebblig; 1795 - 1873), Independent minister ceased to have charge of a church, he continued preaching regularly on Sundays. Besides his translation of Mathew Henry he published over forty translations and original works, including translations into Welsh of Finney's Lectures (1839) and Sermons (1841), Burder's Eastern Customs (1837), Brook's Mute Christian (1830), J. A. James's Church Member's Guide, and Doddridge's Rise and Progress … He also
GRIFFITHS, HENRY (1812 - 1891), Independent minister and college tutor Son of James Griffiths (1782 - 1858), who was at that time minister at Machynlleth, but Henry was born at his mother's home, Llanferan, near S. Davids (Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru, iii, 27). From Neuaddlwyd (Y Geninen, 1886, 113) he went to University College, London, where he was greatly influenced by Augustus de Morgan, who strengthened his inclination to mathematics and philosophy. After
GRIFFITHS, HENRY (1825 - 1886), minister - see GRIFFITHS, HENRY

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