Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRIFFITHS, THOMAS (JEREMY) (Tau Gimel; 1797? - 1871), Unitarian minister and schoolmaster
GRIFFITHS, VAVASOR (d. 1741), Independent minister and tutor We possess very few verifiable details of his life. The earliest definite date is 1711, when he was at the academy kept by Samuel Jones (died 1719) at Tewkesbury; a letter by the future archbishop Secker (Gibbons, Memoirs of Isaac Watts, 346), speaks highly of Griffiths's linguistic attainments, adding 'he seems to be not much under 40. Secker may well have over-estimated Griffiths's age; but on
GRIFFITHS, WILLIAM (1788 - 1861), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 21 December 1788 at Blaenbrwynen, Clydau, Pembrokeshire, son of Thomas and Mary Griffiths. In 1807 he was compelled to enlist in the militia; in the course of his military service he came under the influence of the Methodists, whom he joined. On his release from the army he kept a school in his native parish for a time. In 1814 he began to preach at Bwlch-y-groes. In 1817 the Association, at
GRIFFITHS, WINIFRED MAIR (1916 - 1996), minister (Cong) and headmistress grandfathers had married a young woman from Dolannog, named Ann Thomas - who came to be known as Ann Griffiths, the hymn writer. Mair's mother was the daughter of the Reverend and Mrs. R. O. Jones, the minister of the Congregational Churches at Moreia, Bedlinog, and Graig. Mair was educated at the Cardiff Secondary School, and the University College of South Wales and Monmouth, where she graduated B.A. with
GRIST, IAN (1938 - 2002), Conservative politician by the Labour candidate. In the general election of 1992, as widely anticipated even by himself, he lost the seat to the Labour candidate Jon Owen Jones - part of the electoral shrivelling of the Conservative Party in Wales. Tall, genial and generally very popular, Ian Grist was a PPS, 1979-81, to Nicholas Edwards, the Secretary of State for Wales, but he resigned after two years in the post. He
GRONOW, DANIEL (d. 1796), Presbyterian minister even then an orthodox Calvinist. In 1769, he was called to the newly-founded Independent church at Bala (Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru, i, 406-7), where he worked hard, founding a new church at Tyn-y-bont and holding services at Llandderfel. He succeeded Thomas Evans (1714? - 1779) in 1780 at Mixenden, Yorkshire; during his short stay there, he was a Unitarian (Miall, Congregationalism in Yorkshire
GROSSMAN, YEHUDIT ANASTASIA (1919 - 2011), Jewish patriot and author in April 1942 she became a member of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), the female branch of the British armed forces, from which she was released in May 1946. Since February of the same year she had enrolled on a course in English Literature at Mount Carmel College, Haifa, an institution run by the Army Education Corps. Here she met Leonard (Jonah) Jones (1919-2004), a conscientious objector
GRUFFUDD ab ADDA ap DAFYDD (fl. 1340-1370), poet and prose writer He was a contemporary and friend of Dafydd ap Gwilym, who composed a marwnad upon him. From this poem we gather that he was a native of Powys Wenwynwyn and was killed by a friend's sword at Dolgelley, where he lies buried. For his poetry see Jones and Lewis, Mynegai, and Brogyntyn MS. 2 in the National Library of Wales. Rhetorical compositions attributed to him and entitled ' Breuddwyd Gruffudd
GRUFFUDD ap DAFYDD ap HYWEL (fl. 1480-1520), poet His work is preserved in NLW MS 832E, NLW MS 3487E, NLW MS 9166B; Cwrtmawr MS 200B, Cwrtmawr MS 448A; B.M. MS. 14985; Swansea MS. 1. See also Mynegai (Jones and Lewis).
GRUFFUDD ap MAREDUDD ap DAFYDD (fl. 1352-1382), poet 1382), and Syr Hywel y Fwyall (died c. 1381), and he could be most aptly called the household or family bard of the house of Penmynydd (see under Ednyfed Fychan). It is not improbable that he composed the exceptional ode inviting Owain Lawgoch (Owain ap Thomas ap Rhodri) to recover his patrimony. He excels in his love poems. In one instance he makes for his beloved's home at Tref Lywarch on a
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 THOMAS escheator for Cardiganshire. In 1442-3, he again came to the notice of the authorities in London, when he and the abbot of Whitland were summoned to the metropolis and the Privy Council ordered the arrest of his son Owen. Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, was his patron, and he received, 24 July 1443, the custody of the lordship of Caron and the commote of Pennarth during the minority of Maud
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.

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