Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRIFFITH, GWILYM WYNNE (1914 - 1989), physician and Medical Officer of Health rugby fan. During his time at the Ministry of Health, he could be seen in the Oval on the occasional afternoon. He was a regular supporter of the National Eisteddfod and was admitted to the white robe of the Gorsedd of Bards in 1979. He also turned to writing in his retirement (he had published a short comedy for young actors, Brown y detectif, in 1935) and published The day before yesterday in 1988
GRIFFITH, Sir SAMUEL WALKER (1845 - 1920), judge , as a barrister-at-law of the supreme court of Queensland. In 1872 he entered Parliament, became premier in 1883, and was in the Legislative Assembly for twenty-one years. In 1893 he was appointed chief justice of Queensland. His polemical life centered around two issues, the overthrow of pastoralist oligarchy and the preservation of white Australia, the latter issue being occasioned by the
GRIFFITHS, PHILIP JONES (1936 - 2008), photographer Associate member of Magnum Photo Agency, thanks to the help of Ian Berry, Griffiths arrived in Vietnam in 1966. He travelled the country developing a respect for a people whose manner reminded him of rural Wales. His travels disproved official reports to reveal a military-industrial complex at work desecrating both culture and landscape. Choosing Leica and Nikon F cameras loaded with black and white film
GRIST, IAN (1938 - 2002), Conservative politician listening to music. He was chairman of the South Glamorgan Health Authority from 1992. He married in 1962 Wendy Anne White, and they had two sons. He lived at 18 Tydfil Place, Roath, Cardiff. Ian Grist died, following a seizure, on 2 January 2002.
GRYFFYTH, JASPER (d. 1614), cleric, warden of Ruthin hospital, chaplain to archbishop Bancroft, collector of manuscripts fragments in Latin and Welsh (B.M. MS. Cotton, Jul. C., iii). Some of the most important Welsh manuscripts passed through his hands, e.g. 'The Black Book of Carmarthen,' 'The White Book of Rhydderch,' Peniarth MS 44 and Peniarth MS 53, the 'Dingestow Brut' (NLW MS 5266B), the 'Life of Gruffudd ap Cynan' (Peniarth MS 17), and two manuscripts of the Laws of Howel (Harleian 4353 and Cotton Cleopatra B.V
GWRTHEYRN build a fort that would be strong enough against them. This provides the occasion for the tale to include the story of the little boy without a father, who overcame the king's druids with his great wisdom in explaining the battle between the red dragon and the white dragon and who obtained the fort - Emrys - for himself. He was Emrys Wledig. Gwrtheyrn had perforce to build his fort elsewhere. In the
GWYN, RICHARD (c. 1537 - 1584), Roman Catholic martyr
HARTSHORN, VERNON (1872 - 1931), Labour leader, M.P., and Cabinet Minister facts of the situation. For this purpose he had an uncommon background of knowledge, practical knowledge of the miners ' lot, and the larger knowledge that came from intimate study of live issues of policy, whether it was of the meticulous details of the 'sliding scale,' or of the evidence of Blue Books and White Papers, or of the reports of royal commissions - he knew the reports of the Samuel and
HAYCOCK, BLODWEN MYFANWY (1913 - 1963), artist and author illustrator in black and white, coupled with her early success with a lyric in English at the Port Talbot national eisteddfod of 1932, where W.H. Davies was the adjudicator, prompted her to reject a career as an art teacher and to take up one as a freelance journalist. From 1936 her poems and stories, illustrated with scraper-board drawings, appeared in The Western Mail and other newspapers and journals. On
HODGE, JULIAN STEPHEN ALFRED (1904 - 2004), financier .1953, Robert b.1955 and Jonathan b.1958. The family lived in turn in two of Wales's finest houses, White Lodge in Penylan and Tŷ Gwyn in Lisvane, former home of James Turner, the builder of City Hall and other buildings in Cardiff's Cathays Park. Though by the 1950s a prominent figure in south Wales business circles, Hodge first came to wider attention, as the defender of small shareholders, through
HUGHES GRIFFITHS, ANNIE JANE (1873 - 1942), peace campaigner for the women to travel on to Washington, and to the White House, to meet President Calvin Coolidge. It should be emphasised that the main aim of the journey and the petition was to make a connection between the women of Wales and the women of America. The meeting with the President was an informal one, since the organisers were at pains to stress that this was a non-political and non-partisan event
HUGHES, CLEDWYN (BARON CLEDWYN OF PENRHOS), (1916 - 2001), politician the Commonwealth Relations Office had earned him a place in the Cabinet. Following the election in 1964, Hughes had hoped for a post in the Welsh Office and he was delighted to succeed Griffiths. He held the post of Secretary of State for Wales for two years, from 6 April 1966 to 6 April 1968; his first Minister of State was George Thomas, who was followed in 1967 by Eirene White who spoke warmly of

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