Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRIFFITH, DAVID (1841 - 1910), schoolmaster, cleric, and diarist took the greatest interest in the local church, its story, and traditions, as proved by his numerous articles in Yr Haul and the Anglican Cymro; a summary of his contributions, especially from 1873 to 1887, will be found in Bangor MSS. 1673 and 1721; very valuable notes on various parishes occur in manuscripts 3001-3005, 4573. As a man, he was ultra-sensitive, prone to morbid imaginings, unforgiving
GRIFFITH, EDMUND (1570 - 1637), bishop Born in 1570, the fourth son of Griffith ap John Griffith of Cefn Amwlch, Llŷn. Educated at Brasenose, Oxford (B.A. 1589; M.A. 1592; B.D. 1599), he became rector of Llandwrog 1596-1637, canon of Bangor 1600, sinecure rector of Llanfor, Meironnydd 1601, rector of Llanbedrog 1604, archdeacon of Bangor 1606, dean of Bangor 1613-33, and bishop of Bangor 1633-7. By his wife Gwen, daughter of Morris ap
GRIFFITH, GEORGE (1601 - 1666), bishop chancellor of the diocese of S. Asaph as well as of Bangor. Griffith went to Westminster school and afterwards to Oxford (Christ Church); M.A. 1626, D.D. 1635. Under John Owen, bishop of St Asaph, father-in-law to his brother William, his promotion was rapid - domestic chaplain, canon, rector of Newtown, by 1633 rector both of Llanymynech and of Llandrinio (having surrendered Newtown). In the convocation
GRIFFITH, GRIFFITH WYNNE (1883 - 1967), minister (Presb.) and author Born 4 February 1883 in Brynteci, Llandyfrydog, Anglesey, son of John and Judith Griffith. He worked on his father's farm until he was 18 years old when he went to the school kept by Cynffig Davies in Menai Bridge, to prepare himself for the ministry. He was accepted as a candidate for the ministry by the Anglesey Presbytery in 1903. He was educated in the University College Bangor (where he
GRIFFITH, GWILYM WYNNE (1914 - 1989), physician and Medical Officer of Health Bangor when he became minister of Tabernacl church there. Gwilym Wynne Griffith was educated in Porthmadog and Friars' School, Bangor where he won the Robert Gee scholarship to Liverpool University medical school in 1932; he graduated in 1938. His primary interests lay in the field of public health and cancer and he became a leading authority on the epidemiology of the disease. He won the Rex Cohen
GRIFFITH, HUW WYNNE (1915 - 1993), minister (Presb) and a prominent ecumenical leader Douglas (1918-1918). Huw Wynne Griffith was educated in Liverpool before the family moved in 1923 to Porthmadog, where he attended the local primary school and Porthmadog County School, then in Friars School, Bangor (when his father became minister of Tabernacl church, Bangor), University College of North Wales, Bangor (where he graduated with a BA in Latin), Westminster College, Cambridge where he
GRIFFITH, JOHN (1863 - 1933), schoolmaster and musician Born at Rhiw, Llŷn, 18 April 1863, the eldest son of Siôn Griffith, shoemaker, of Pen-y-groes, Rhiw, and Martha Griffith, Pen Nebo, Rhiw. He was educated at Botwnnog grammar school, was a pupil teacher at Nebo, Llanllyfni, and a student at Bangor Normal College, 1881-2, and became headmaster of the British Schools at Glanwydden and Machynlleth. He married Dorothy, daughter of Owen Jones, Siop
GRIFFITH, JOHN EDWARDS (1843 - 1933), naturalist and antiquary Born 18 June 1843. With a prosperous pharmacy at Bangor, he was able to take an early interest in archaeology and natural history which in time accounted for his volumes on the Flora of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire, published in 1894, and his Portfolio of Photographs of Cromlechs in the same two counties, published in 1900; at his death he was one of the oldest members of the Cambrian
GRIFFITH, OWEN (Eryr Eryri; 1839 - 1903), musician eisteddfodau, including the national eisteddfudau held at Bangor, 1874, Pwllheli, 1875, and Birkenhead. He wrote some songs, together with an anthem, 'Da was, da a ffyddlon.' He conducted singing festivals and also acted as music adjudicator. He died 4 January 1903 and was buried in Llan-rug churchyard.
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
GRIFFITH, ROBERT ARTHUR (Elphin; 1860 - 1936), author and lawyer Born at Caernarvon, 1860, son of John Owen Griffith (Ioan Arfon) and Ann (formerly Roberts). He was educated at the Liverpool institute and University College, Aberystwyth. For many years he practised as a solicitor at Bangor. He became a barrister of the Middle Temple in 1903, joining the North Wales and Chester circuit. In 1915 he became stipendiary magistrate for Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare, a
GRIFFITH, ROBERT DAVID (1877 - 1958), musician and historian of Welsh congregational singing ., Bangor.

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