Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
GWILYM DDU GLAN HAFREN - see OWEN, WILLIAM
GWILYM DDU O ARFON (fl. c. 1280-1320), poet ). An englyn on the coronation of king Edward II in 1307 is also attributed to him (Enwogion Sir Gaernarfon). It is stated that he was poet to prince Llywelyn ap Gruffydd (Edward Jones, Relicks …) but no examples of his poetry to Llywelyn have yet been found.
GWILYM GLAN LLWCHWR - see OWEN, WILLIAM
GWINNETT, BUTTON (1735 - 1777), merchant, landowner and politician Gwinnett is a form of the regional name Gwynedd. Ann Emes's mother was Ann Prise of Glamorgan. The family of her wealthy cousin Barbara Button held extensive lands in Glamorgan, including the manor of Cottrell, which was inherited by Barbara. Barbara Button was Button Gwinnett's godmother. Button's siblings were Anna Marie, Samuel, Thomas, Robert, John and Emilia. The family's Glamorgan connection is
GWYN, JOHN (d. 1574), lawyer, placeman, and educational benefactor law, but Griffith Wynn and his co-executor Dr. Henry Jones (see under William Awbrey) agreed to reduce the foundation to two Fellows and three scholars, the former to be chosen in the first instance by Griffith Wynn and afterwards by the college from among Gwyn scholars or from Friars or Ruthin school, the latter by Wynn and his heirs in consultation with the masters of Friars and Ruthin, failing
GWYNN, EIRWEN MEIRIONA (1916 - 2007), scientist, educator and author Bangor to do research on the behaviour of X-rays, and in 1942 she became the first woman to receive a PhD in physics at the College. The foundations of her character - a multi-talented, determined, energetic, principled woman - were in place. She also possessed considerable beauty, and in Bangor found her life partner, Harri Gwynn Jones (1913-1985). In his obituary of Eirwen, Meic Stephens describes
GWYNN, HARRI (1913 - 1985), writer and broadcaster Harri Gwynn was born at 63, Maryland Road, Wood Green, north London, on 14 February 1913, son of Hugh Jones (d. 1916), who worked as a letter-sorter on the mail train between London and Holyhead, and his wife Elizabeth (Beti) (née Williams), both originally from Penrhyndeudraeth. Following his father's death from a heart condition in December 1916, mother and son moved to Garth Celyn
GWYNNE family Llanelwedd, It would seem that the 'Gwyn' family of Llanelwedd began with a younger son of Rhydderch ap Dafydd Goch Gwyn, of the widespread clan of Glanbran, Llandovery (and other seats); there is a very full account of this clan in Old Wales (ed. W. R. Williams), vols. ii and iii (index); and pedigrees, not always consistent, are printed in Theophilus Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, 3rd ed., iii
GWYNNE family Kilvey the English political scene.' He published The Army on Itself (1904), and The Will and the Bill (1923), the latter a political satire. He married Edith Douglas, daughter of Thomas Ash Lane, in 1907. There were no children. He died 26 June 1950. Two other sons also became clergymen: RICHARD LLOYD GWYNNE (1859 - 1941) Religion; born Kilvey, February 1859; educated Swansea Grammar School and London
GWYNNE family Garth, Maes-llech, Llanlleonfel See the pedigrees in Theophilus Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, 3rd ed., ii, 238-40, iv, 269-70. This family, though not originally belonging to the Glanbrân clan (see Gwynne of Llanelwedd), became later connected with it. The surname ' Gwyn ' first appears in the Garth family c. 1545. A REES GWYNNE of Garth was coroner of Brecknock in the 17th century, and had a son MARMADUKE GWYNNE
GWYNNE, ROBERT (JOHNS) (fl. 1568-1591), Roman Catholic missioner and writer seminary in 1571 in company with Thomas Crowther, a Welshman from the diocese of Hereford, who graduated about the same time as Gwynne and Robert Owen. He took his B.D. and was ordained priest in 1575, and was sent on the English mission in the following year. He made at once for his native haunts, and was sheltered in the secret chamber at Plas Du by Owen's brother Thomas. Tales soon reached Douai of

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