Dictionary of Welsh Biography

FRANCIS, GWYN JONES (1930 - 2015), forester Meryl Jeremy from Carmarthen with whom he had three children, Richard, Kay and David. After Meryl's death in 1985 he married Audrey Gertrude Gemmel (née Gill) of Toronto, Canada. On the completion of his national service in 1954, he joined the Forestry Commission as a District Officer in Neath, with responsibilities related to the Commission's extensive young forests in the Afan, Neath and Dulais
FRANCIS, JOHN DEFFETT (1815 - 1901), painter and collector Christened in S. Mary's church, Swansea, 2 June 1815, the son of a Swansea coachbuilder, John Francis, and his wife Mary, and a younger brother of George Grant Francis, the antiquary. He devoted himself to painting, particularly portrait-painting, at an early age and eventually went to London where he became acquainted with Dickens, Thackeray, and Ruskin, and became one of the 'founders of the
FRANCIS, JOHN OSWALD (1882 - 1956), dramatist Born 7 September 1882, son of David Francis, Dowlais, Glamorganshire and Dorothy (née Evans) his wife. He was one of the first pupils at Merthyr Tydfil Intermediate School and graduated at Aberystwyth and the Sorbonne, before becoming a school teacher at Ebbw Vale county school and later at Holborn Estate grammar school, London. After military service during World War I he entered the Civil
GAMBOLD family ); and in 1770 he published a Welsh Moravian hymn-book, Ychydig Hymnau allan o Lyfr Hymnau Cynulleidfaoedd y Brodyr (see Cymm., xlv, 112) - three of the hymns were taken from vicar Prichard, the other thirty-four were Gambold's own versions of English Moravian hymns; it must be confessed that they are rather stiff. Two of William Gambold's other sons deserve a word. The third son was GEORGE GAMBOLD
GARRO JONES, GEORGE MORGAN - see TREFGARNE, GEORGE MORGAN
GEOFFREY (1090? - 1155), bishop of St Asaph and chronicler , and provost of the college of secular canons in the church of S. George, Oxford, until 1149. Geoffrey is described as 'magister' in some of these documents. In 1151 he was appointed bishop of S. Asaph; he was ordained priest at Westminster on 11 February 1152 and consecrated bishop at Lambeth on 24 February 1152, but there is no evidence that he ever visited his see. The Welsh chronicles state that
GEORGE, - see LLOYD GEORGE
GEORGE, DAVID LLOYD - see LLOYD GEORGE, DAVID
GEORGE, THOMAS (fl. 1829-1840), miniature painter is said to have been born at Fishguard, although the date of his birth is uncertain as the Fishguard parish registers are incomplete for that period. H. M. Vaughan suggested that he was the Thomas, son of Thomas George, mason, and Ann, his wife, who was christened at Fishguard 28 May 1810, but Basil Long suggests that he was born in 1790. The latter date may be considered more likely as George
GEORGE, THOMAS NEVILLE (1904 - 1980), Professor of Geology Neville (TN) George was born on 13 May 1904 at Morriston, Swansea, son of Thomas Rupert George (originally from Port Eynon, Glamorganshire) and Elizabeth (Lizzie, née Evans, both schoolteachers. He attended Pentrepoeth Infants' School in Morriston, Morriston Boys' Elementary School (1910-14), Swansea Municipal Secondary School, later Dynevor School, (1914-19), and Swansea Grammar School (a fee
GEORGE, WILLIAM (1865 - 1967), solicitor and public figure Born at Highgate, Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire, 23 February 1865, the youngest child of William George, schoolmaster (he died 7 June 1864) and Elisabeth his wife (née Lloyd, 1828 - 1896), and a brother to David Lloyd George (see LLOYD GEORGE, David below), and Mary Elin. His father died before he was born and his uncle, Richard Lloyd, his mother's brother (1834 - 1917) had a profound influence
GIBBON, JAMES MORGAN (1855 - 1932), Independent minister bodies in Wales and Monmouthshire (1910). He refused to sign its report, and at the request of the Free Churches, through F. B. Meyer, published a book explaining his point of view: Weighed in the Balance: The Case for Welsh Disestablishment, with a foreword by D. Lloyd George, 1910. He was chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales (1913-14). He published: The Epistle to the Galatians

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