Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GORE, WILLIAM GEORGE ARTHUR ORMSBY - see ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM GEORGE ARTHUR
GOUGE, THOMAS (1605? - 1681), Nonconformist divine and philanthropist Born at Stratford le Bow, London, 19 September 1605 (according to D.N.B., 29 September 1609), eldest son of Dr. William Gouge. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, where he was admitted 16 August 1625, graduated, and was elected Fellow, 16 August 1628. He took orders in 1634, and left Cambridge in 1635. During that year, he was appointed rector of Coulsdon, Surrey, and remained
GOUGH, JETHRO (1903 - 1979), Professor of pathology Born 29 December 1903 at Woodland Street, Mountain Ash, Glamorganshire, one of the eleven children of Jabez William Gough, trader and proprietor of a bus company, and his wife Ellen (née Mortimer). Determined to pursue a medical career from an early age and having excelled at Mountain Ash grammar school, Jethro Gough entered the Welsh National School of Medicine (then part of the University
GOUGH, MATHEW (c. 1390 - 1450), soldier to England, and was put in joint command of the Tower of London. He was killed on London bridge, 5 July 1450, defending the city against Jack Cade's rebels, and he was buried in the choir of S. Mary's of the Carmelite Friars in London. His death, according to William of Worcester, caused universal grief in Wales. There could be no greater tribute to his fame than the prominence given to him in
GRAY, THOMAS (1847 - 1924), mining engineer and local historian Born 22 September 1847, at Usworth, co. Durham, son of William and Jane Gray. In 1848 the family came to Tai-bach, Margam, Glamorganshire, where he lived the remainder of his life. After serving as an assistant to his father, who was mineral agent to Messrs. Vivian and Sons, he became a consulting engineer to the same industrialists, an inspector of mines, and the inventor of the 'Gray' safety
GREEN, BEATRICE (1894 - 1927), political activist Beatrice Green was born on 1 October 1894 at Abertillery, Monmouthshire, the seventh of eight children of William and Mary Dykes. Her father was a tin worker who became a miner when she was 5 years old. One of her brothers, John Arthur Dykes, was killed in a roof fall in Rose Heyworth colliery, Abertillery in 1910, aged 19. Beatrice's introduction to public life came through the Ebenezer Baptist
GREEN, CHARLES ALFRED HOWELL (1864 - 1944), second Archbishop of Wales William Thomas Lewis, first Lord Merthyr, who survived him.
GRENFELL, DAVID RHYS (1881 - 1968), Labour politician He was born at Penyrheol, Gorseinon on 27 June 1881, the son of William and Alice/Ann Grenfell. She was the daughter of William Hopkins. His father was a coalminer who originally came from Blaenavon in Monmouthshire. The only formal education which he received early in life was at Penyrheol Elementary School which he left at just twelve years of age to become a coalminer, but he was assiduous in
GRESHAM, COLIN ALASTAIR (1913 - 1989), archaeologist, historian and author when or why they moved there. However, by 1836 Colin and his younger brother, William, had established a small company at 23 Brown Street, Salford. They were described then as 'Engineers, machine makers and millwrights'. In 1852 a partnership was forged between Colin Mather and William Wilkinson Platt, Salford. Indeed, the foundations of the engineering firm which later became known internationally
GREVILLE, CHARLES FRANCIS (1749 - 1809), founder of Milford Haven town, Pembrokeshire Second son of Francis, earl of Warwick, and his wife Elizabeth Hamilton. He became the agent, and subsequently the heir, of his mother's brother, Sir William Hamilton (1730 - 1803), who had succeeded to a considerable estate in south Pembrokeshire through his marriage with Catherine Barlow of Colby (died 1782). In 1790 Hamilton obtained a private act of parliament which enabled him to develop his
GREY family (POWIS, lords of), Grey de Powes chivaler ' between 1482 and 1491. His wife (married after 14 February 1471) was Anne, daughter of William Herbert, earl of Pembroke. He died in the autumn of 1494 and was followed by his son, JOHN GREY (c. 1483 - 1504), 3rd baron. The latter's son, EDWARD GREY, 4th baron, died 2 July 1551 without legitimate issue. His estates passed by will to his illegitimate son, EDWARD GREY, who sold
GREY, THOMAS (1733 - 1810), Independent minister Son of William Grey of Llangyfelach, Glamorganshire, and christened there 26 December 1733. He began life as a collier. It is said that he experienced conversion when a number of his mates were killed in a colliery accident on a day upon which he had been sent on an errand to Neath. This was probably in 1754, for five men were buried at Llangyfelach on 11 October of that year, one bearing the

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