Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GEORGE, THOMAS (fl. 1829-1840), miniature painter miniature on ivory of Richard Bird at the Victoria and Albert Museum. This carefully painted miniature is signed 'Painted by T. George. London Oct. 1826.' The late Sir Thomas Barry Jones possessed a miniature by George which was probably a self-portrait and which the artist gave shortly before his death to his brother Henry who lived at Fishguard. The National Museum of Wales has one miniature by him and
GLENN, THOMAS ALLEN (1864 - 1948), soldier, historian, genealogist, and archaeologist ); Newmarket notes (Prestatyn Hundred, Flintshire), Parts 1 & 2 (Prestatyn 1911, 1912); Northern Flintshire, historical, genealogical and archaeological, Vol. I, Parts 1-3 (Horncastle, 1913); (with Lord Mostyn), History of the Family of Mostyn of Mostyn (1925); The Family of Griffith of Garn and Plasnewydd in the County of Denbigh (London, 1934).
GLYN family Glynllifon, , bankers. Thomas's son, Sir WILLIAM GLYN (knighted in Dublin in 1606 for military services in Ireland) was highly esteemed in the county, and was reckoned a man of high honour and integrity. He married Jane, the daughter of John Griffith of Cefnamwlch, and by her he had six sons and five daughters; he died in 1620. His successor at Glynllifon was THOMAS GLYN (three times M.P. for Caernarvonshire). In the
GLYNNE, MARY DILYS (1895 - 1991), plant pathologist Mary Dilys Glynne was born at Glyndyl, Menai Avenue, Upper Bangor on 19 February 1895, the youngest daughter of the five surviving children of John Glynne Jones (1849-1947), solicitor, and his wife Dilys Lloyd Glynne Jones (née Davies, 1857-1932). Her father's family home was Tyddyn Isaf (Cymryd) in the parish of Y Gyffin near Conwy. Her mother was one of the London Welsh, daughter of the
GODWIN, JUDITH (d. 1746), one of Howel Harris's correspondents Her maiden name was Weaver, and it is often (but incorrectly) said that she was the daughter of John Weaver (died 1712), Puritan minister at New Radnor and afterwards at Hereford; it is however very probable that she belonged to the same family and was born in Radnorshire. She married (1) Samuel Jones (1680? - 1719), of Tewkesbury, and (2) in 1721, Edward Godwin (1680? - 1764), a prominent
GOLDSWAIN, BRYNLEY VERNON (1922 - 1983), rugby league player Bryn Goldswain was born on 3 August 1922 in Merthyr Tudful, the son of Reginald Stephen Goldswain, a miner and then a policeman who died as a young man, and his wife Catherine (née Jones, 1897-1981). The family moved to Aber-craf in the Swansea Valley when Bryn was four years old. He was educated locally and at Ystalyfera Grammar School. He played rugby union for Aber-craf, before going to work
GOUGH, JETHRO (1903 - 1979), Professor of pathology post-war years, being a particularly regular visitor to Harvard and other universities in North America. His high standing in the profession and, indeed, his forceful personality, soon established Jethro Gough as a leading member of the School of Medicine, in the mid fifties being referred to by Provost Trevor Jones in his diaries as 'a first-class fellow … achieving a reputation and also bringing
GRENFELL family, Swansea industrialists and five daughters: Madelina Georgina (1826 - 1903), Pascoe Du Pre (1828 - 1896), St. Leger Murray (1830 - 1860), Arthur Riversdale (1831 - 1895), Gertrude Fanny (1834 - 1880), Elizabeth Mary (1836 - 1894), Francis Wallace (1841 - 1925), Katherine Charlotte (1843 - 1906), Eleanor Catherine (1845 - 1928). MADELINA married Griffith Llewellvn (1802 - 1888) at Baglan Hall in 1850. Llewellyn became rich
GRENFELL, DAVID RHYS (1881 - 1968), Labour politician taking a highly independent line on some issues. Generally, however, he remained loyal to the Attlee government and his leader. Grenfell also served as the chairman of the Welsh Parliamentary Party from 1935 (succeeding Sir Henry Haydn Jones MP), and he was a member of the Welsh Tourist Board from 1948 until 1951. In 1951 Grenfell was sworn of the Privy Council. He was the Father of the House of
GREY family (POWIS, lords of), Sir JOHN GRAY or GREY, of Heton, Northumberland (c. 1385 - 1421), married Joan, elder daughter and coheiress of Sir Edward Cherleton, lord of Powis (died 1421). In her right, he, for a few months, enjoyed half the lordship of Pool. When Sir John Oldcastell (Oldcastle), otherwise known as lord Cobham, was taken from hiding at Broniarth in 1417 by Ieuan and Griffith Vaughan, and handed over to
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
GRIFFITH family Cefn Amwlch, Penllech, Llŷn to the earl of Leicester's designs on the Forest of Snowdon, the Griffiths played no major part in county administration until 1589, when GRIFFITH AP JOHN GRIFFITH was picked as sheriff in that year. Griffith died and was buried at Oxford in 1599, leaving as heir to the estate, JOHN GRIFFITH I, who was Sheriff of Caernarfon in 1604 and 1618, and M.P. for Caernarvon from 1604 to (?) 1611. He died

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