Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRIFFITHS, HENRY (1825 - 1886), minister - see GRIFFITHS, HENRY
GRIFFITHS, JAMES (JEREMIAH) (1890 - 1975), Labour politician and cabinet minister Trades and Labour Council. He campaigned powerfully against British involvement in World War I. Griffiths studied at the Marxist Central Labour College, 1919-21, at the same time as Aneurin Bevan and Morgan Phillips. He then returned to the coalface, and spent four nights a week giving classes in economics and industrial history. During the inter-war period be quickly rose to prominence within the
GRIFFITHS, JOHN (1820 - 1897), cleric and educationalist with Sir Hugh Owen and others in their efforts to reform the national eisteddfod. He was a convincing preacher and a popular platform speaker, and high tribute is paid to his gifts as a conciliator. He married, first Mary, daughter of Caleb Lewis of Cardigan; she died in 1880, and subsequently, in 1882, Jennet Matilda Morgan of Coed Ffranc, Glamorganshire. He. died 1 September 1897 and was buried at
GRIFFITHS, JOHN POWELL (1875 - 1944), minister (Baptist) and schoolmaster eventually employed a housekeeper to look after his home - and his students. Powell Griffiths, it appears, succeeded J. W. Humphreys in the school that he had established while minister of Mount Pleasant; but such was his enthusiasm for the classics that he also conducted evening classes in Greek and Latin in Rhos and Ponciau. In a biographical note for the Baptist Handbook (1944-1946) Herbert Morgan
GRIFFITHS, RICHARD (1756 - 1826), colliery pioneer The second son and third of nine children of William Griffiths and Elizabeth (Davies), of Gelli-fendigaid, Llanwynno, Glamorganshire, he was christened 13 January 1756. His family connections, by birth and by marriage (see Morgan, cited below), are very interesting; members of his family were among the earliest and strongest supporters of Methodism in Llanwynno and Pontypridd; and his youngest
GRIFFITHS, SAMUEL (1783 - 1860), Independent minister Parch. Morgan Jones, Trelech, 1836; Gwaedd yng Nghymru, 1853; and a number of catechisms for the Sunday school. He rendered service to a large area as unpaid legal adviser and arbitrator. He died 4 July 1860 at the age of seventy-seven, and was buried at Bwlch-y-groes. William Griffiths (1788 - 1861), Calvinistic Methodist minister of Burry Green, Gower, was his brother.
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.
GRUFFUDD ap CYNAN (c. 1055 - 1137), king of Gwynedd himself lord of Gwynedd uwch Conwy, and for the rest of his life he was left undisturbed to consolidate his kingdom. It is true that Henry I led a formidable army into Gwynedd in 1114, but Gruffudd lost no land, and after this he himself did not fight a single battle. The authority of Gwynedd was however greatly extended by his sons, Owain and Cadwaladr, and before Gruffudd's death Ceredigion
GRUFFUDD ap DAFYDD FYCHAN (fl. 15th century), poet Of Tir Iarll in Glamorganshire He is apparently the person referred to as 'Gruffudd mydrydd a enwir gŵr o Fetws Tir Iarll' whose pedigree is given by G. T. Clark in Limbus Patrum, 510. A number of his cywyddau have been preserved, including an elegy on the death of Henry VI, a number of vaticinatory poems, and three love poems, two poems composed by Llywelyn Goch y Dant and Gruffydd ap Dafydd
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 Carregcennen was repaired and garrisoned upon his command. On the verge of the Wars of the Roses, he was on good terms with the court of Henry VI, and after the Yorkist victory at S. Albans, 1455, he lost some of his offices. Yet, he appears to have taken offence at the coming of Edmund, earl of Richmond, to Pembroke, in 1456, if he was the 'Gruffith Suoh' (sic.) who, with the earl of Richmond, was reported
GRUFFUDD GRYG (fl. second half of the 14th century), bard ]. Before accepting that view one would like to get further testimony on the two points - the authorship of the cywydd and the year of the death of Rhys. When he was returning from a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella, Spain, Gruffudd's ship was nearly cast ashore 'in the land of Henry,' his enemy. Is this not England, in the time of Henry IV, and therefore some time between 1399 and 1413 ? At what
GRUFFYDD ap GWENWYNWYN (d. 1286), lord of Upper Powys the elder son of Gwenwynwyn by Margaret Corbet of Caus. An infant when his father died, an exile in 1216, he was excluded from his inheritance until after the death of Llywelyn I, meanwhile spending his youth and early manhood in England dependent on royal bounty and his mother's dower. When Dafydd II submitted to Henry III in 1241, the king invested Gruffydd (on strictly feudal terms) with the

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