Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GEORGE, THOMAS NEVILLE (1904 - 1980), Professor of Geology palaeontology to technical journals. He married during summer 1932, Sarah Hannah Davies, MA, PhD, a university lecturer; they had no children. He died at 1 Princess Terrace, Glasgow, on 8 June 1980.
GIBBINS, FREDERICK WILLIAM (1861 - 1937), Quaker industrialist Born at Neath, 1 April 1861, eldest son of Frederick Joseph Gibbins and Caroline Gibbins, prominent members of the Society of Friends. He was educated at the Quaker School, Scarborough. He married 1898, Sarah Jennette Rhys, Sgubor-fawr, Penderyn, and had two sons. F. W. Gibbins was an outstanding figure in the commercial life of South Wales, particularly in the tinplate industry. He entered the
GIBBON, LEVI (1807? - 1870), ballad-writer and singer there is evidence that he and his family were afforded relief at Carmarthen workhouse in February 1844. He died at Blaen-y-waun in Llanwinio parish, 1 August 1870, at the age of sixty-three; his wife Ann died 30 January 1897, at the age of ninety-two; both are buried in the same grave in the Baptist graveyard at Ramoth, Cwmfelin-mynach.
GIBSON-WATT, JAMES DAVID (BARON GIBSON-WATT), (1918 - 2002), Member of Parliament and public figure argued for a 'no' vote in the devolution referendum on 1 March 1979. In the Queen's Birthday Honours List on 26 June 1979, he was made a life peer and took the title of Baron Gibson-Watt, of the Wye in the District of Radnor. His maiden speech in the House of Lords, as in the House of Commons almost thirty years earlier, was on the subject of forestry. Lord Hailsham, the Lord Chancellor, appointed
GLASCOTT, CRADOCK (1743 - 1831), Evangelical cleric who also became a minister in lady Huntingdon's connexion. He was the son of Thomas Glascott of Cardiff; and Charles Wesley (and perhaps John Wesley and Whitefield) had stayed at his home - 'I lodged at Mr. Glascott's' (Charles Wesley, Journal, i, 255, 6 November 1740). In the Calvinistic controversy (1740-1) the Cardiff Society sided with Wesley. Cradock went to Jesus College, Oxford (Foster
GLENN, THOMAS ALLEN (1864 - 1948), soldier, historian, genealogist, and archaeologist ); Newmarket notes (Prestatyn Hundred, Flintshire), Parts 1 & 2 (Prestatyn 1911, 1912); Northern Flintshire, historical, genealogical and archaeological, Vol. I, Parts 1-3 (Horncastle, 1913); (with Lord Mostyn), History of the Family of Mostyn of Mostyn (1925); The Family of Griffith of Garn and Plasnewydd in the County of Denbigh (London, 1934).
GLYNNE family remained until 23 May 1648. He was elected M.P. for Caernarvonshire, 1654-5, and April-December 1660. With keen political foresight he resigned his legal offices, and lost no time in favouring the return of the monarchy. He was knighted 16 November 1660, and soon afterwards made prime serjeant. He married (1) Francis, daughter of Arthur Squib, and (2) Anne, daughter of John Manning. He owned estates at
GODWIN, JUDITH (d. 1746), one of Howel Harris's correspondents Her maiden name was Weaver, and it is often (but incorrectly) said that she was the daughter of John Weaver (died 1712), Puritan minister at New Radnor and afterwards at Hereford; it is however very probable that she belonged to the same family and was born in Radnorshire. She married (1) Samuel Jones (1680? - 1719), of Tewkesbury, and (2) in 1721, Edward Godwin (1680? - 1764), a prominent
GOODMAN, GABRIEL (1528 - 1601), dean of Westminster and founder of Christ's Hospital, Ruthin Wales and the Court. He assisted in the production of bishop William Morgan's Bible (1588) and he was responsible for the translation of 1 Corinthians in the Bishops' Bible of 1568. In 1590 he founded Christ's Hospital, Ruthin (president, warden, and twelve poor inmates) and endowed it with the tithes of Ruthin and Llan-rhydd which he purchased from the lay impropriators into whose hands they had
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
GOWER, HENRY (1278? - 1347), bishop . Davids itself. He died there in 1347 (on 1 May, says Yardley), and was buried on the south side of the choir. It is as a generous and splendid builder that he is justly famous - in this respect, says E. A. Freeman, he left his mark on the place to an extent unequalled by any other builder. He enlarged the lady chapel and added a chantry to it; the fine stone rood-screen is his; he added to the height
GREEN, BEATRICE (1894 - 1927), political activist Beatrice Green was born on 1 October 1894 at Abertillery, Monmouthshire, the seventh of eight children of William and Mary Dykes. Her father was a tin worker who became a miner when she was 5 years old. One of her brothers, John Arthur Dykes, was killed in a roof fall in Rose Heyworth colliery, Abertillery in 1910, aged 19. Beatrice's introduction to public life came through the Ebenezer Baptist

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