Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GIFFORD, ISABELLA (c. 1825 - 1891), botanist and algologist enlarged and containing colour illustrations of marine plants (by William Dickes (1815-1892), as in the case of the previous edition), Isabella noted in the preface how gratified she felt that 'credit has been awarded me "of having first led attention in a simple, popular, as well as strictly scientific manner, to an interesting branch of botany previously little studied"'. An important part of this
GILBERTSON, LEWIS (1814 - 1896), cleric, vice-principal of Jesus College, Oxford Born at Dôlclettwr, Tre'r-ddôl on Tre'r-ddôl ar 27 November 1814, the fourth son of William Cobb Gilbertson (1768-1864), a lawyer originally from Middlesex, and his third wife, Elizabeth, and baptized in Llancynfelyn Church on 3 December. He spent his youth at Elerch, Cardiganshire. Educated at Jesus College, Oxford, he graduated B.A., 1836, M.A. 1839, B.D. 1847, and was a Fellow of Jesus College
GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS (1146? - 1223), archdeacon of Brecon and mediaeval Latin writer Born some time between 1145 and 1147 at Manorbier, Pembrokeshire, the youngest son of William de Barri and Angharad, daughter of Gerald de Windsor and Nest, daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr. He received his early education from his uncle David FitzGerald bishop of S. Davids, and at the abbey of S. Peter, Gloucester. Subsequently he was a student at the University of Paris, and after his return thence
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
GLYN, GEOFFREY (d. 1557), founder of Friars School, Bangor - see GLYN, WILLIAM
GLYN, JOHN, dean of Bangor - see GLYN, WILLIAM
GLYN, WILLIAM (1504 - 1558), bishop Born in 1504, son of John Glyn of Heneglwys, Anglesey, Glyn was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge (B.A. 1527, M.A. 1530, B.D. 1538, D.D. 1554); he became Fellow of Queens ', 1530; was one of original Fellows of Trinity, 1546; and was vice-master of Trinity, 1546-51. Like his friend and contemporary, Thomas Thirlby (see D.N.B.), he seems to have accepted the religious changes of Henry VIII's
GLYNLLIFON, WILLIAM Glynllifon (d. 1594) - see GLYN
GLYNNE family This was a branch of the Glynn or Glynne family of Glynllifon, Caernarfonshire, whose ancestry may be traced back to Cilmin Droed-ddu, the founder of the fourth noble tribe of Gwynedd. In 1654 the castle and manor of Hawarden, together with the estate, were purchased by JOHN GLYNNE (1602 - 1666), the second son of Sir William Glynne of Glynllifon. Educated at Westminster, he matriculated at Hart
GLYNNE, MARY DILYS (1895 - 1991), plant pathologist sculptor and musician William Davies (Mynorydd) and sister to the singer Mary Davies. Mary attended Bangor County School for Girls, which her mother had played a prominent role in establishing in 1897 and served for a long period as one of its governors. Her father was a councillor on Bangor City Council and registrar of the County Court. Her sister Eryl became a doctor and botanist, and her brother Ioan
GODWIN, JUDITH (d. 1746), one of Howel Harris's correspondents Independent minister in London. Of the second marriage there were two sons: Edward (1722 - 1748/9), a Whitefieldian exhorter, and John (1723 - 1772), an Independent minister in East Anglia who became father of the writer William Godwin and grandfather of the novelist Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Judith Godwin moved in the quasi-Methodist Nonconformist circle of her day in Wales, and was friendly with
GOODMAN, GABRIEL (1528 - 1601), dean of Westminster and founder of Christ's Hospital, Ruthin Born 1528, second son of Edward Goodman (died 1560) of Ruthin. He was educated at Cambridge (B.A. 1550, M.A. 1553, D.D. 1564); was Fellow of Christ's College, 1552-4, and of Jesus College, c. 1554-5. About 1555 he entered the service of William Cecil, later lord Burghley, as chaplain. A sympathizer with the religious settlement of Edward VI, he compromised under Mary and fully accepted the

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