Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GREEN, FRANCIS (1854 - 1942), antiquary Peniarth Deeds remains unpublished. He contributed important papers on the history of Pembrokeshire in Y Cymmrodor and the Trans. Cymmr. Many of his manuscripts are preserved in the county library at Haverfordwest and there are copies in the National Library. He died 6 August 1942, at St. David's.
GRENFELL, DAVID RHYS (1881 - 1968), Labour politician serve on the National Council of Labour in 1939. Grenfell was the Secretary of State for the Mines during the Second World War from May 1940 until June 1942, a most critical period. Here he made the argument for the nationalization of the coal industry, a case which he again pressed after the war, notably in his volume Coal (1947). He soon became renowned as an extremely conscientious minister who
GRESHAM, COLIN ALASTAIR (1913 - 1989), archaeologist, historian and author jointly important studies on Parc (1942), Rhiwlas (1955) and Lasynys (1957), Merionethshire. He acknowledged in the preface to his second volume his indebtedness to Hemp in the following words: '[he] introduced me to the North Wales School [of ancient sculpture], and trained my eyes to see and my mind to appreciate the details of its monuments'. He dedicated this volume in memory of his friend. For half
GRIFFITH, GRIFFITH WYNNE (1883 - 1967), minister (Presb.) and author Assembly (1959). He delivered the Davies Lecture in 1942, which was published in 1946 under the title Datblygiad a Datguddiad. He was chief editor of Y Cyfarwyddwr (1929-30), and an assistant editor of the same journal 1931-44. He was also editor of Y Goleuad (1949-57). He was secretary of the committee which prepared the Welsh ' short confession of faith ', and the book of services, Llyfr gwasanaeth
GRIFFITH-JONES, EBENEZER (1860 - 1942), Congregational minister and college principal public questions. He married Carita (died 1936) daughter of T.F. Stoner, Elstree, and his wife, and they had 2 children. He died 22 March 1942.
GRIFFITHS, JAMES (JEREMIAH) (1890 - 1975), Labour politician and cabinet minister in the House of Commons, and in 1939 was elected to the NEC of the Labour Party-a remarkably rapid progression. In the general election of 1945 his majority exceeded 34,000 votes, the second highest in the whole of Britain. He served continuously as a member for his party's NEC for twenty years. In 1942 he was appointed secretary to the Welsh Parliamentary Party. From his first election he spoke
GRIFFITHS, WINIFRED MAIR (1916 - 1996), minister (Cong) and headmistress Honours in German and French in 1940. She served as a teacher, between 1940 and 1942, at the Greeford County School (and was a member at that time at the Welsh Congregational Church at Tabernacl, King's Cross, London). Between 1942 and 1945 she taught at the Swansea High School. From 1945 to 1947, she served as the Wales' Organizer of the Student Christian Movement. During that period, she lived at home
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
GRUFFYDD, WILLIAM JOHN (1881 - 1954), scholar, poet, critic and editor the principles of literary criticism adopted by the editor. Two lectures were published in pamphlet form - Ceiriog (1939) and Islwyn (1942). Gruffydd was better known to his fellow-countrymen as a poet than as a scholar. He competed unsuccessfully for the crown at the national eisteddfod at Bangor in 1902 with a poem on the subject ' Trystan ac Esyllt ', but was awarded the prize at the London
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 Gwynn's application to the Royal Army Medical Corps was rejected on medical grounds (his pneumonia as a student had entailed major surgery), and he spent 1940 and 1941 as a history teacher at schools in Flint and Bangor. On New Year's Day 1942, as he was about to take up a post with the Ministry of Supply (on a salary that his future father-in-law considered acceptable), at the registry office in Bangor
HALL, GEORGE HENRY (first Viscount Hall of Cynon Valley), (1881 - 1965), politician May 1940 he took office in the wartime coalition as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Colonial Office. He was made a P.C. in 1942 and became successively Financial Secretary of the Admiralty, 1942-43 and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs under Anthony Eden, 1943-45. On the formation of the Labour Government in July 1945 he became Secretary of State for the

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