Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRUFFUDD ap NICOLAS (fl. 1415-1460), esquire and a leading figure in the local administration of the principality of South Wales in the middle of the 15th century , heiress of William Clement. He held sessions on behalf of duke Humphrey in the counties of Carmarthen and Cardigan. When the English inhabitants of North Wales towns petitioned Parliament in 1444, against the denization of more Welshmen, he and William Bulkeley were excepted by name. He was placed on a commission to enquire into felonies committed by David ap Meredith in Aberystwyth 2 July 1445. The
GRUFFUDD ap TUDUR ap HYWEL (fl. 1500-1540), poet There are references to his work in the Mynegai (Jones and Lewis). See also NLW MS 644B, NLW MS 5273D and NLW MS 6499B; Glyn Davies MS. 2; Wynnstay MS. 1; Cwrtmawr MS 242B; B.M. MSS. 14902, 14966, and 14985.
GRUFFUDD HIRAETHOG (d. 1564), bard and herald it. His zeal in this respect is exactly that of the humanists. The collection of proverbs was copied by William Salesbury and published under the title Oll Synnwyr Pen Kembro y gyd (in 1546 or 1547). In 1552 Salesbury translated into Welsh a work on rhetoric, and prefixed the translation with a letter to Gruffudd Hiraethog in which he says: 'You are so anxious [ Salesbury uses the Welsh word
GRUFFUDD, RHISIART (fl. c. 1569), poet seeking the reconciliation of Sir Richard Bulkeley with William Lewis, also of Anglesey (NLW MS 3047C (508)). It is not certain whether he is the Rhisiart Gruffudd ap Huw whose poetry is found in Llanstephan MS 49 (93); NLW MS 5283B (51, 122), and NLW MS 9166B (251).
GRUFFYDD ap IEUAN ap LLYWELYN FYCHAN (c. 1485 - 1553), bard and member of a Welsh landed family sat with three commissioners, viz. Richard ap Howel ap Ieuan Fychan of Mostyn (father-in-law of Gruffydd ap Ieuan), Sir William Gruffydd, (father-in-law of Thomas Mostyn, son of Richard ap Howel), and Sir Roger Salusbury of Llewenni. A second reason for his importance is the fact that his nephew, or 'great-nephew,' bishop Richard Davies (1501? - 1581), says that he remembers seeing in the possession
GRUFFYDD ap RHYS (d. 1201), prince of Deheubarth - Maelgwn, his brother, and Gwenwynwyn of Powys, so that to the end his hold on his inheritance was uncertain. His career is in a sense the prelude to those mutually destructive family feuds which brought about the final collapse of the house of Dinefwr. In 1189 he married Matilda, daughter of William de Braose, who, with two young sons, Rhys Ieuanc and Owen, survived his death on 25 July 1201. Both he
GRUFFYDD, SION (d. 1586?), poet and chaplain to William ap Sir Rhys Thomas, a commander who served under the earl of Leicester in the Low Countries and who was killed at Zutphen in 1586. It is surmised that the poet died at the same time. At least two of his poems have been preserved, one a religious carol and the other a better known carol of longing for Caernarvon, composed when the poet was in Flanders.
GRUFFYDD, OWEN (c. 1643 - 1730), poet and antiquary written down by his friends from his dictation. He was buried at Llanystumdwy 6 December 1730. William Elias composed an elegy upon him.
GRUFFYDD, ROBERT GERAINT (1928 - 2015), Welsh scholar parents of the wayward eighteenth-century lexicographer and grammarian, William Owen Pughe. There was a fundamental difference in scholarly attitudes between Geraint and Pughe but nevertheless, in an inexplicable way, Geraint felt the call of scholarship and research in Egryn and he took pleasure in believing that his journey began there. After a few years the family moved to Pwllpeiran, Cwm Ystwyth, a
GRUFFYDD, WILLIAM JOHN (1881 - 1954), scholar, poet, critic and editor
GUEST family, iron-masters, coal owners, etc. his position as a partner in the company - holding one-sixteenth at his father's death, he obtained eight-sixteenths more on the death of his uncle William Taitt in 1815. By 1849 he had become sole proprietor, and the welfare of the large population of over 12,000 people depended entirely upon the use he made of the power thus entrusted to him; in this he was ably assisted by his wife, lady
GUEST, LADY CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH (1812 - 1895), translator, businesswoman and collector by the Rector, Evan Jenkins. Working with the Welsh clerics, notably Reverends Thomas Price ('Carnhuanawc') and John Jones ('Tegid') and drawing upon the research inspired by the Romantic revival and the translation work of William Owen Pughe who had recently died, Lady Charlotte began transcribing and translating into English eleven medieval Welsh tales (from the Llyfr Coch o Hergest / Red Book of

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