Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GIBSON, JOHN (1790 - 1866), sculptor Son of William and Jane Gibson of the parish of Gyffin, Caernarfonshire, he was christened at Conway 19 June 1790. His parents moved to Liverpool when he was nine years old. He showed an aptitude for drawing as a child but as his parents were too poor to pay the premium necessary to secure his apprenticeship to a portrait or miniature painter he was apprenticed at fourteen to a firm of cabinet
GILDAS (fl. 6th cent), monk Columban (Columbanus) in a letter to pope Gregory, c. 600. For his contribution to the second wave of Irish saints see Hugh Williams, Gildas, 416; see also Sir John Lloyd's considered opinion of him generally (A History of Wales, 134-43).
GITTINS, CHARLES EDWARD (1908 - 1970), educationalist president of the Debates Union and of the Students' Representative Council. He graduated in 1928 with a well-merited first class in History, and then pursued the secondary school training course in the department of Education leading to the University of Wales Diploma in Education in 1929. From 1929 to 1931 he held the Eyton Williams postgraduate studentship which led to his Master's degree with a
GIVVONS, ALEXANDER (1913 - 2002), rugby player Alexander Givvons was born on 2 November 1913 in Pillgwenlly, Newport, Monmouthshire, the eldest child of Alexander Givvons (b. 1888), a merchant seaman from St Thomas in the West Indies, and his wife Johanna Dunn (1896-1987). He had five siblings, including a half-brother Trevor Williams (b. 1925) from his mother's second marriage. He was known as Alex (pronounced Alec). Alex attended Holy Cross
GLYN family Glynllifon, English kings. The first wife was Ellen Bulkeley of Beaumaris, and by her Robert had six sons and four daughters. Two of these sons were prominent clerics in the early Tudor period - MORUS GLYN, LL.D., died 1525, was archdeacon of Merioneth, and WILLIAM GLYN, LL.D., died 1557, archdeacon of Anglesey. Robert ap Meredydd's second wife was Jane Puleston of Caernarvon, and the issue of their marriage was
GOODWIN, GERAINT (1903 - 1941), author The son of Richard and Mary Jane Goodwin, he was born at Llanllwchaearn, Montgomeryshire, 1 May 1903. He attended Towyn County School, and from 1922 to 1938 lived by journalism and authorship in London. In 1932 he married Rhoda Margaret, daughter of Harold Storey. His first books were Conversations with George Moore (1929) and the semi-autobiographical Call Back Yesterday (1935). He then turned
GRAY, THOMAS (1847 - 1924), mining engineer and local historian Born 22 September 1847, at Usworth, co. Durham, son of William and Jane Gray. In 1848 the family came to Tai-bach, Margam, Glamorganshire, where he lived the remainder of his life. After serving as an assistant to his father, who was mineral agent to Messrs. Vivian and Sons, he became a consulting engineer to the same industrialists, an inspector of mines, and the inventor of the 'Gray' safety
GREEN, CHARLES ALFRED HOWELL (1864 - 1944), second Archbishop of Wales Eldest son of A.J.M. Green, clerk in Holy Orders, and Elizabeth his wife, was born at Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, 19 August 1864. On his mother's side he was a great-great-grandson of Peter Williams (1723 - 1796). He was educated at Charterhouse and Keble College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1887 and M.A. in 1892. He was successively Librarian and President of the Oxford Union Society. He
GREENLY, EDWARD (1861 - 1951), geologist geological survey of Anglesey. He married Annie Barnard in 1891 (she died 1927) and they worked together on the task until its completion in 1910. The geology of Anglesey, two vols., was published in 1919 and the 1 inch map in 1920. The work was later extended to Arfon. He published (with Howel Williams) Methods of geological surveying (1930) and his autobiography, A hand through time, appeared in 1938. He
GRENFELL family, Swansea industrialists ) married, as his 2nd wife, Georgina St. Leger, daughter of the 1st Viscount Doneraile (of the 2nd creation), in 1798. Charles Kingsley, another relation by marriage, first traced the connection. The family were already prosperous merchants and bankers in the eighteenth century. In 1803 Pascoe Grenfell entered into a contract with Owen Williams to trade in copper and developed a business in London
GRENFELL, DAVID RHYS (1881 - 1968), Labour politician of William Morgan. He also became active in the local Labour Party in 1916; and in 1920 he was adopted prospective candidate for the Gower division. He entered parliament as the Labour MP for the Gower constituency at an all-important by-election held on 20 July 1922 held on the death of John Williams MP, subsequently retaining the division until his retirement from the House of Commons in 1959
GREY, THOMAS (1733 - 1810), Independent minister quarter sessions on 30 July 1762. Upon the death of Philip Pugh in 1762 he was called to be pastor of the Independent churches at Llwynpiod and Abermeurig, Cardiganshire. He married Letitia (née Jenkins), widow of Theophilus Jones of Blaenplwyf, Llanfihangel Ystrad, a local squire upon whose death in 1758 William Williams, Pantycelyn, wrote an elegy. They settled at Sychbant, Nantcwnlle, a farm on the

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