Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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 PENRHYN, Anglesey and Caernarvonshire to his son by the second marriage. (Penrhyn manuscripts, passim; Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society and Field Club, 1951, 34-72; J. R. Jones, ' The development of the Penrhyn estate to 1431 ', University of Wales M.A. thesis, unpublished.) From 1431 to 1531 the son, grandson, and great-grandson of Gwilym ap Griffith (each named Gwilym) held the estate and added
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
GRIFFITH family Carreg-lwyd, This family was descended from Ednyfed Fychan. EDMUND GRIFFITH of Porth yr Aur, Caernarvon, was the third son of William Griffith Fychan of Penrhyn, in the county of Caernarvon. He married Janet, daughter of Maredudd ap Ieuan ap Robert, the great-grandfather of Sir John Wynn the most notable of the house of Gwydir. Their fourth son was WILLIAM GRIFFITH (c. 1516 - 1587), who became rector of
GRIFFITH, SIDNEY (d. 1752), Methodist and associate of Howel Harris far as Builth on her way home. It is clear that Harris was deeply influenced by her on these journeys, but it should be noted that she sided with Rowland and not with Harris in Rowland's opposition to Griffith Jones of Llanddowror and to James Beaumont. When Harris got back from London to Trevecka (23 September), he found ' Madam Griffith ' awaiting him there, with the news that her husband had
GRIFFITH family Garn, Plasnewydd, Particulars of many of the members of this family are given in The Family of Griffith of Garn and Plasnewydd … as registered in the College of Arms from the beginning of the XIth century. Edited … by T. A. Glenn (London, privately printed, 1934), a work based on family and other documents. The descent is traced from Eadwine of Atiscross, the Edwin of Tegeingl of genealogists. At least two members
GRIFFITH, Tanybwlch Maentwrog - see EVANS
GRIFFITH, ALEXANDER (d. 1676), cleric and controversialist Examen et Purgamen). [There is not much doubt that Griffith was present at Blackfriars to hear Powell's denunciation of the Protectorate in December 1653; it is certain that he supplied secretary Thurloe with letters incriminating some of the anti-Protectorate leaders in Wales (dated 1654, mainly).] The evidence of his virulent pamphlets was accepted by most Anglican critics of the Puritan dispensation
GRIFFITH, ALICE (1730 - 1808), Moravian - see GRIFFITH, WILLIAM
GRIFFITH, DAVID (1841 - 1910), schoolmaster, cleric, and diarist
GRIFFITH(S), DAVID (1726 - 1816), cleric and schoolmaster As master of the grammar-school attached to Christ College, Brecon, he taught a group of distinguished men: Thomas Coke, Edward Davies ('Celtic Davies'), John Jones of Llandovery (the Greek lexicographer), Theophilus Jones, David Price (the Orientalist), and John Hughes of Brecon, who are all noticed in the present work. He was the son of Roger and Gwenllian Griffiths of the parish of S. Davids

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