Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
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

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