Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRIFFITHS, SAMUEL (1783 - 1860), Independent minister Parch. Morgan Jones, Trelech, 1836; Gwaedd yng Nghymru, 1853; and a number of catechisms for the Sunday school. He rendered service to a large area as unpaid legal adviser and arbitrator. He died 4 July 1860 at the age of seventy-seven, and was buried at Bwlch-y-groes. William Griffiths (1788 - 1861), Calvinistic Methodist minister of Burry Green, Gower, was his brother.
GRIFFITHS, THOMAS (1645 - 1725) Delaware, first minister of the Welsh Tract Baptist church He was born at Llanfyrnach, Pembrokeshire, in 1645, but is described with Elizabeth, his wife, as 'of Melinau ' in the roll of members of Rhydwilym church in 1689. There is no evidence in the church register either that he was baptized there, as some reports say, in 1677, or that he became one of the ordained assistants of William Jones (died c. 1700), but it is known that it was he who led the
GRIFFITHS, WILLIAM (1788 - 1861), Calvinistic Methodist minister
GRIFFITHS, WILLIAM (1777 - 1825), Independent minister and teacher
GRIFFITHS, WILLIAM (1898 - 1962), bookseller
GRIFFITHS, WILLIAM (Ifander; 1830 - 1910), choral conductor and adjudicator
GRIFFITHS, WILLIAM (1859 - 1940), Unitarian minister and Hebrew scholar
GRIFFITHS, WILLIAM ALONZO (1842 - 1893), Independent minister, hymn-writer and hymnologist
GRIFFITHS, WINIFRED MAIR (1916 - 1996), minister (Cong) and headmistress Mair Griffiths was born in Cardiff 6 June 1916, one of two daughters born to Griffith William and Alice Maud Griffiths. Griffith William Griffiths had come as a young man to work in Cardiff from Montgomeryshire, where his parents were farming at the Forge Farm, near Pontrobert, on the road to Meifod. It is interesting to note, in this connection, that the brother of one of her father's great
GRIST, IAN (1938 - 2002), Conservative politician He was born at Southampton on 5 December 1938, the son of Basil William Grist, MBE, a land agent and garage owner, and Leila Helen Grist. He was educated at Hildersham House preparatory school in Broadstairs, at Repton School and he then won an open scholarship in history to Jesus College, Oxford. While a student he was secretary of the Jesus College Conservative Association. He had joined the
GRONOW, REES HOWELL (1794 - 1865), writer of memoirs Born 7 May 1794, he was the eldest son of William Gronow (died 1830) of Swansea. From Eton he went into the army, was ensign in 1812, served in Spain 1812-14, was at Waterloo, and was afterwards made captain; but he left the army in 1821, and being a man of means lived the life of a man-about-town. His knowledge of war and society gives value to his four books: Reminiscences of Captain Gronow
GROVE, Sir WILLIAM ROBERT (1811 - 1896), scientist and lawyer

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