Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRUFFYDD, ROBERT (1753 - 1820), musician
GRUFFYDD, ROBERT GERAINT (1928 - 2015), Welsh scholar R. Geraint Gruffydd was born on 9 June 1928 in Egryn, an ancient house in Tal-y-bont, Dyffryn Ardudwy. He was the second of the two children of Moses Griffith (1893-1973), researcher in experimental agriculture and later an independent agricultural advisor, and his wife Ceridwen (née Ellis), a teacher of Welsh and Latin. He had an elder sister, Meinir (1926-1992). Egryn had been the home of the
GRUFFYDD, THOMAS (1815 - 1887), one of the best known harpists of his period the Abergavenny eisteddfod of 1836. He became very popular as harpist and penillion singer in Monmouthshire and Glamorgan. In 1843 Gruffydd and his teacher played at Buckingham Palace, being accompanied on their visit by Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc); Gruffydd also gave a number of recitals at Marlborough House. In 1867 he was the guest of the Comte de la Villemarqué in Brittany, and was presented by
GRUFFYDD, WILLIAM JOHN (1881 - 1954), scholar, poet, critic and editor history of Welsh literature. His first book was Llenyddiaeth Cymru o 1450 hyd 1600 (1922), which, in spite of its title, dealt with the strict metre poetry only. Next came Llenyddiaeth Cymru, Rhyddiaith o 1540 hyd 1660 (1926). Though 'a series of volumes on Welsh Literature' was promised, only these two appeared. They were very useful in schools and colleges. In 1929 Gruffydd edited a reprint of Perl
GWENLLIAN (d. 1136) Daughter of Gruffudd ap Cynan, by Angharad, daughter of Owen ap Edwin. She married Gruffydd ap Rhys shortly after 1116, the most famous of her sons being the 'lord' Rhys ap Gruffydd. At the opening of the great Welsh uprising in 1136, she led an attack on the Norman fortress of Kidwelly, in her husband's absence, and was killed fighting outside the town, at a spot still known as Maes Gwenllian.
GWENWYNWYN (d. 1216), lord of Powys Wenwynwyn, an area very broadly speaking co-extensive with the modern county of Montgomery; this was to distinguish it from the later Denbighshire portion of ancient Powys, or Powys Fadog - so-called after Gwenwynwyn's second cousin, Madog ap Gruffydd Maelor I, who came into sole possession of that region at about this time. Apart from having left a permanent stamp on the nomenclature of central Wales
GWILYM ap GRUFFYDD (c. 1370 - 1430) - see GRIFFITH
GWILYM ap SEFNYN, poet no details of his life remain, but it appears that he was of North Wales. Much of his poetry has been preserved in manuscripts, and this includes cywyddau addressed to Gwilym ap Gruffydd of Penrhyn and his son, Wiliam Gruffydd Fychan; one vaticinatory cywydd (NLW MS 6499B (370)); and a number of englynion. Two more personal cywyddau are found, one being a religious confession and the other an
GWILYM DDU O ARFON (fl. c. 1280-1320), poet it is said that he lived in the place called Muriau Gwilym Ddu (Enwogion Sir Gaernarfon). A little of his work remains in manuscript and this includes two poems in praise of Sir Gruffydd Llwyd of Tregarnedd and written while Gruffydd was imprisoned in Rhuddlan castle, and an elegy to Trahaearn Brydydd ap Goronwy, or Trahaearn Brydydd Mawr - Jes. Coll. MS. 1 and 'Llyfr Coch Hergest' (1225, 1229
GWYNFARDD BRYCHEINIOG (fl. c. 1180), poet the former. The awdl to the lord Rhys could have been written any time after 1172, the year when Henry II met Rhys ap Gruffydd and created him justiciar of South Wales and so a ' lord '. The awdl may have been composed in the year 1176, when the 'eisteddfod' took place at Cardigan, but there is no certainty about this; it may have been written at a later date.
GWYNN, HARRI (1913 - 1985), writer and broadcaster Creature) as a soliloquy in which a murderer convicted of killing his girlfriend addresses a beetle in his cell. The mention of the girl's sexual allure and the murderer's attempt to justify his actions proved too much for one adjudicator, the Rev. David Jones from Blaenplwyf, who refused to crown the work. It was criticised more harshly still by W. J. Gruffydd, who maintained that 'the thoughts of a
HALL, AUGUSTA (Lady Llanover), (Gwenynen Gwent; 1802 - 1896), patron of Welsh culture and inventor of the Welsh national costume Cymreigyddion members, among them Lady Llanover, also founded and patronised the Welsh Manuscripts Society in 1836. Lady Llanover was one of the main advocates of the triple harp as a national instrument in nineteenth-century Wales. An accomplished harp player herself, she revived the tradition of the family harpist by employing John Wood Jones (1800-1844) from shortly after 1826, his pupil Thomas Gruffydd

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