Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GIVVONS, ALEXANDER (1913 - 2002), rugby player later loose forward for Oldham from 1933 to 1949 (with a break between 1944 and 1948 where he played for Huddersfield). He earned six caps for Wales between 1936 and 1939, and was the second Black player to represent Wales in Rugby League (after George Bennett, also from Newport, in 1935), finishing on the winning side in all six games. He also toured France twice with the Great Britain Rugby League
GLYNNE family GLYNNE (1709 - 1730), 5th baronet, who died unmarried, at Aix-la-Chapelle, one month after attaining his majority, and was succeeded by his brother Sir JOHN GLYNNE (1713 - 1777), 6th baronet, who matriculated from Queen's College, Oxford, 13 November 1730, and was made D.C.L., 7 July 1763. He is reputed to have spent £35,000 in his unsuccessful election contest with Sir George Wynne for the borough of
GOODWIN, GERAINT (1903 - 1941), author The son of Richard and Mary Jane Goodwin, he was born at Llanllwchaearn, Montgomeryshire, 1 May 1903. He attended Towyn County School, and from 1922 to 1938 lived by journalism and authorship in London. In 1932 he married Rhoda Margaret, daughter of Harold Storey. His first books were Conversations with George Moore (1929) and the semi-autobiographical Call Back Yesterday (1935). He then turned
GORE, WILLIAM GEORGE ARTHUR ORMSBY - see ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM GEORGE ARTHUR
GRENFELL, DAVID RHYS (1881 - 1968), Labour politician always answered supplementary questions in the House of Commons with great thoroughness and detail. But it was Major Gwilym Lloyd-George who was chosen as the senior minister to head the new Ministry of Fuel and Power formed in the summer of 1942. Nor, to general surprise, was Grenfell appointed to any official position in the post-1945 Attlee administration, and on occasion he was quite capable of
GRESHAM, COLIN ALASTAIR (1913 - 1989), archaeologist, historian and author as Mather & Platt Ltd. were laid then. (The Rt. Hon. Sir William Mather (1838-1920) was a great-uncle of Colin Gresham, not his great-grandfather as W. R. P. George asserts in the Transactions of the Caernarfonshire Historical Society, 50 (1989), 38. He was largely responsible for developing and expanding the firm from about 1870 until the end of the century. He came into prominence as a public and
GREVILLE, CHARLES FRANCIS (1749 - 1809), founder of Milford Haven town, Pembrokeshire Greville in April 1809, the new town entered upon a period of depression. Greville was succeeded by his younger brother ROBERT FULKE GREVILLE (1751 - 1824), sometime equerry to king George III. He took but a tepid interest in his brother's projects. When the Admiralty proposed to purchase the site of the dockyard, for which it had been paying a yearly rent, he refused to accept its valuation. It was
GRIFFITH, SIDNEY (d. 1752), Methodist and associate of Howel Harris become bankrupt and had beaten her and turned her out of the house for refusing to give up to him some of her capital. Harris would have had her stay at Trevecka, but by that time Mrs. George Whitefield had poisoned Mrs. Harris's mind against her, so she had to start northward again; further, some of the Methodist exhorters had begun tattling, notably as she claimed prophetic powers and sought to
GRIFFITH family PENRHYN, , Anglesey, and Llanfairis-gaer, Caernarfonshire; EDMUND, the second son, founded the estate of Carreg-lwyd, Anglesey. See Griffith, Pedigrees, 47, 56, 57, and articles Griffith of Carreg-lwyd and George Griffith, 1601 - 1666. In 1451 he was member of a commission appointed to examine the reasons why the revenues of Merioneth were in arrear (Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1446-52, 480) and between 1457 and 1463 he was
GRIFFITH family Carreg-lwyd, . in 1627. In turn, he became chancellor of the dioceses of Bangor and S. Asaph, master of the rolls (in Wales), and in 1631 was appointed a master in chancery. He married Mary (died 1645), daughter of John Owen, bishop of Bangor, and died of the plague on 17 October 1648. His youngest brother was George Griffith (1601 - 1666), bishop of St Asaph.
GRIFFITH(S), DAVID (1726 - 1816), cleric and schoolmaster death, and the schoolmastership till 23 October 1801, when George Albert Barker succeeded him. He held other incumbencies - the joint curacy of Llandeilo'r Fan and Llanfihangel Nant Bran (1759-1816), the perpetual curacy of Dyffryn Honddu (1765-96), the prebend of Llandegley in the collegiate church of Christ, Brecon (1776-95), and the rectory of Llanbadarn-fawr, Radnorshire (1804-5). These country
GRIFFITH, GEORGE (1601 - 1666), bishop his 'grounded persuasion' that set prayers were the more edifying and more convenient; in fact, they boxed the whole compass of controversy in the realms of polity and worship. Both sides, as usual, claimed victory; Powell's party published its own version, and the learned Anglican no less than three. Notwithstanding his pugnacious defence of the Anglican position, George Griffith was allowed to

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