Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GREEN, BEATRICE (1894 - 1927), political activist Beatrice Green was born on 1 October 1894 at Abertillery, Monmouthshire, the seventh of eight children of William and Mary Dykes. Her father was a tin worker who became a miner when she was 5 years old. One of her brothers, John Arthur Dykes, was killed in a roof fall in Rose Heyworth colliery, Abertillery in 1910, aged 19. Beatrice's introduction to public life came through the Ebenezer Baptist
GREEN, CHARLES ALFRED HOWELL (1864 - 1944), second Archbishop of Wales office he held till a month before his death on May 7, 1944. He was buried at Llandaff. He held the degrees of B.D. (1907), D.D. (1911), and D.C.L. (1938), of the University of Oxford and was an Honorary Fellow of Keble College. He was the author of Notes on Churches in the Diocese of Llandaff (1907) and The Constitution of the Church in Wales (1937). He married in 1899 Katherine Mary, daughter of
GRENFELL family, Swansea industrialists They originated from St. Just in Cornwall. They were related, through intermarriage with the St. Leger family, to Sir Richard Grenville of the Revenge and Richard de Granville, the founder of Neath Abbey. Sir Richard, a direct descendant of Richard de Granville (Visitations of the County of Cornwall, ed. J.L. Vivian), married Mary, daughter of Sir John St. Leger. PASCOE GRENFELL (1761 - 1838
GREY family (POWIS, lords of), Grey de Powes chivaler ' between 1482 and 1491. His wife (married after 14 February 1471) was Anne, daughter of William Herbert, earl of Pembroke. He died in the autumn of 1494 and was followed by his son, JOHN GREY (c. 1483 - 1504), 3rd baron. The latter's son, EDWARD GREY, 4th baron, died 2 July 1551 without legitimate issue. His estates passed by will to his illegitimate son, EDWARD GREY, who sold
GRIDLEY, JOHN CRANDON (1904 - 1968), industrialist John Gridley was born on 28 May 1904 in Cardiff, the only son of William Joseph Gridley and his wife Mary Ellen (née Michell). He was educated at Cardiff and at Queen's College Taunton, Somerset. He played rugby for Glamorgan Wanderers. His early commercial training was in a Cardiff coal and shipping office that became a subsidiary of Powell Duffryn, the largest coal producers and distributors in
GRIFFITH family PENRHYN, this marriage there were two sons, Piers and William (Griffith, Pedigrees, 185 is inaccurate on these marriages; for the second marriage, see Penrhyn MSS. 58-61.) He was knighted at the coronation of Edward VI (1547) and on the accession of Mary was recommended by Nicholas Heath, archbishop of York and president of Wales, as a suitable member of parliament for Caernarvonshire. He was not elected, but
GRIFFITH family Carreg-lwyd, ), fourth son of William Griffith, married Anne, daughter of Owen Pritchard of Llanfflewyn (now Tŷ Newydd), Anglesey. To them were born two remarkable sons. The one, WILLIAM GRIFFITH (1597 - 1648), was born 28 October 1597. Educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, he graduated in 1618, and was elected a Fellow. Thereupon he pursued a course in law and took the degrees of B.C.L. in 1622, and D.C.L
GRIFFITH, JOHN OWEN (Ioan Arfon; 1828 - 1881), poet and critic eisteddfod for an awdl on 'Adam.' His cywyddau to 'Night,' 'Hope,' and 'Home' are his best poems. He also wrote an elegy upon Glasynys (Owen Wynne Jones). His wife, Anne (Roberts), came from a small farm in Waun-fawr called Ala-bawl. They had six children, the eldest being R. A. Griffith (Elphin). After his marriage he went to school for six months. He then opened a grocer's shop at 23, High Street
GRIFFITH, RICHARD (Carneddog; 1861 - 1947), poet, writer, and journalist Born 26 October 1861, son of Morris and Mary Griffith in Carneddi, a small mountain farm in the parish of Nantmor, Caernarfonshire, and not far from Beddgelert. ' Carneddog ' spent the whole of his life up to 1945 (when he and his wife went to live with their son in Hinckley, Leicestershire) in Carneddi, where his ancestors had lived for several generations. He was educated in local schools at
GRIFFITH, Sir SAMUEL WALKER (1845 - 1920), judge Born at Merthyr Tydfil 21 June 1845, the son of Edward Griffith, minister of the English Independent church there (1842-5), and Mary, daughter of Peter Walker of Swansea. Sailing to Australia (1854) with his family, Edward Griffith later became pastor of the Congregational church in Ipswich, near Brisbane. After a brilliant career at the university of Sydney, Samuel Griffith was admitted, in 1867
GRIFFITH, WILLIAM (1801 - 1881), Independent minister and hymn-writer Bristol Moravian chapel, and the bride's aunt, Mary Griffith, a Moravian 'labouress,' came to live with the married pair at Holyhead, where she died in 1847. Mrs. Griffith died 21 March 1865. Their son, Sir John Purser Griffith, is separately noticed.
GRIFFITH-JONES, EBENEZER (1860 - 1942), Congregational minister and college principal Born 5 February 1860 at Merthyr Tydfil, son of the Rev. E. Aeron Jones and Mary Ann, daughter of David Griffiths (1792 - 1863), missionary to Madagascar. Although he received the best education that was possible at the time he attributed his culture and scholarship mainly to the influence of his father. He went to Carmarthen Presbyterian College, 1875-78, and was an assistant teacher at Swansea

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