Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRIFFITHS, WILLIAM (1898 - 1962), bookseller Born 6 June 1898 at Evanstown, Gilfach-goch, Glamorganshire, son of Joseph Griffiths and his wife Margaret Ann (née Williams). He received his early education at Abercerdin elementary school, Evanstown, 1903-11. He worked for some years as a collier and then went to live in London. He took an interest in music and became a student at the Guildhall School of Music, receiving tuition on the violin
GROSSMAN, YEHUDIT ANASTASIA (1919 - 2011), Jewish patriot and author generous loan from Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis (1883-1978), who took repayments in the form of art works by Jones for the Italianate village of Portmeirion. During 1965-6, Jones and his workers built a home for the family on the site of the old cottage of Tyddyn Heulyn on the banks of the river Dwyryd at Minffordd. Yehudit was attracted by the correspondence between place names in Wales and names
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 had their origin in the humour of bardic festivities. It is said that he was thrice married: (1) to Mabel, daughter of Meredith ap Henry Dwnn, (2) to a daughter of Sir Thomas Perrot, and (3) to Jane, daughter of Jenkin ap Rhys ap Dafydd of Gilfach-wen. Three of his sons have been named, John who disappears early from the records, Owen heir of Bryn y Beirdd, and Lewis Glyn Cothi's companion in hiding
GRUFFUDD, IFAN (c. 1655 - c. 1734), poet Born at Tŵr-gwyn, Tredraur ('Troed-yr-aur'), Cardiganshire, where he died, 'being nearly 80 years of age.' Between 1672 and 1722 he wrote a considerable number of carols of the type known as halsingod and in 1718 published, jointly with Samuel Williams of Llandyfrïog, a selection of them, bearing the title Pedwar o Ganuau. Only one of his cywyddau survives - the ' Cywydd i'r Iesu o gynnildeb
GRUFFYDD, ROBERT (1753 - 1820), musician Born at Pen-cefn, Llanbeblig, Caernarfonshire. He came to be known as 'Cantwr Salmau' because he visited churches to teach the congregations to sing. Owen Williams o Fôn in his Gamut, testifies to Robert Gruffydd's musical skill and believed that he had composed several hymntunes for Brenhinol Ganiadau Seion (Owen Williams). He wrote 'Difyrwch gwŷr Caernarfon' and 'Difyrwch gwŷr y Gogledd' - the
GRUFFYDD, ROBERT GERAINT (1928 - 2015), Welsh scholar class where he was inspired by his teachers, in particular Ifor Williams and Thomas Parry. He was proud to have been a member of Ifor Williams's last group of honours students and he used to enjoy recalling the occasion of the final lecture. A sign of his total commitment to master a subject is the anecdote that he spent the whole of the 1944 summer vacation in the National Library systematically
GRUFFYDD, WILLIAM JOHN (1881 - 1954), scholar, poet, critic and editor Born at Gorffwysfa, Bethel, Caernarfonshire, 14 February 1881, son of John and Jane Elisabeth Griffith. He was educated at Bethel elementary school and Caernarfon County School, where he was one of the first entrants when the school was opened in 1894. He entered Jesus College, Oxford, in 1899, and read English Literature. In 1904 he was appointed Assistant Master at Beaumaris Grammar School, and
GWILYM TEW (fl. c. 1460-1480), one of the bards of Glamorgan , including the 'Donatus,' i.e. the grammar that was studied in the bardic schools. Gwilym Tew is, therefore, a fairly important figure in the history of Welsh literature in the 15th century. His cywyddau and awdlau have been collected by J. M. Williams, Swansea; this collection is now amongst the University of Wales theses in the National Library.
GWYN, JOHN (d. 1574), lawyer, placeman, and educational benefactor Born at Gwydir, Llanrwst, he was the fifth and youngest (or possibly fourth) son of John Wyn ap Meredydd, a direct descendant of Owain Gwynedd. His eldest brother Morys was the father of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir and another, Robert (third son), who built Plas Mawr, Conway, became second husband of Dorothy Williams, grandmother of archbishop John Williams. John Gwyn entered Queens' College
GWYNN, EIRWEN MEIRIONA (1916 - 2007), scientist, educator and author Eirwen Meiriona St. John Williams was born at 99 Shiel Road, Newsham Park, Liverpool, on 1 December 1916. (A family story tells that 12 December was recorded by her father, in order to avoid a fine for late registration of the birth.) Eirwen was the eldest of the two children of William (St.) John Williams (1886-1957) and his wife Annie (née Williams, 1885-1969). Her brother, Gwilym Gareth (Gari
GWYNN, HARRI (1913 - 1985), writer and broadcaster Harri Gwynn was born at 63, Maryland Road, Wood Green, north London, on 14 February 1913, son of Hugh Jones (d. 1916), who worked as a letter-sorter on the mail train between London and Holyhead, and his wife Elizabeth (Beti) (née Williams), both originally from Penrhyndeudraeth. Following his father's death from a heart condition in December 1916, mother and son moved to Garth Celyn
GWYNNE family Llanelwedd, It would seem that the 'Gwyn' family of Llanelwedd began with a younger son of Rhydderch ap Dafydd Goch Gwyn, of the widespread clan of Glanbran, Llandovery (and other seats); there is a very full account of this clan in Old Wales (ed. W. R. Williams), vols. ii and iii (index); and pedigrees, not always consistent, are printed in Theophilus Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, 3rd ed., iii

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