Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRENFELL, DAVID RHYS (1881 - 1968), Labour politician his contribution to public service. A bust of him now stands in the Swansea Guildhall. He was made a CBE in 1935 and was awarded the honorary degree of Ll.D. by the University of Wales in 1958 in recognition of his extensive public work. He was also awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1953. Grenfell was a member of Gorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydein. He had a command of the English, Welsh
GRIFFITH family Cefn Amwlch, Penllech, Llŷn Westminster for the fourth time in 1640, now as member for Beaumaris, Griffith appears to have left the House by the Autumn of 1642 to join king Charles at Oxford, and it was there that he died in July 1643, apparently of the plague. His younger brother, EDMUND GRIFFITH II, was a successful cloth merchant in London, and died before 1660 at Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire; while another brother, OWEN GRIFFITH
GRIFFITH family Carreg-lwyd, ), fourth son of William Griffith, married Anne, daughter of Owen Pritchard of Llanfflewyn (now Tŷ Newydd), Anglesey. To them were born two remarkable sons. The one, WILLIAM GRIFFITH (1597 - 1648), was born 28 October 1597. Educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, he graduated in 1618, and was elected a Fellow. Thereupon he pursued a course in law and took the degrees of B.C.L. in 1622, and D.C.L
GRIFFITHS, JAMES (JEREMIAH) (1890 - 1975), Labour politician and cabinet minister a seat in the Labour cabinet, serving until March 1966, although now in his mid-seventies. His successor in the office was Cledwyn Hughes. In 1969 Griffiths published a somewhat guarded volume of reminiscences Pages from Memory. During the late 1960s, although increasingly unwell, he was cajoled by Harold Wilson not to retire from parliament and thus cause yet another risky by-election in a south
GRIFFITHS, JOHN (1837 - 1918), artist Born at Llanfair Caereinion, Montgomeryshire, 29 November 1837, son of Evan Griffiths and his wife Mary Evans of Machynlleth; on his father's death, his mother became housekeeper to Sir James Clarke, physician to queen Victoria. The boy was brought up by his uncle Richard Griffiths, of Neuadd Uchaf farm, Llanfair. Noting his artistic leanings, Sir James had him trained at what is now the Royal
GRIFFITHS, JOHN GWYNEDD (1911 - 2004), scholar, poet and Welsh nationalist having periods as a visiting researcher at the universities of Bonn and Tübingen. He was editor of The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology from 1970 to 1978. For his published works he was awarded the degrees of D.Litt. (Oxon.), 1972, and D.D. (Wales), 1979. In 1979 J. Gwyn Griffiths retired from his university post in Swansea, but he continued researching and writing with the same ardour. He was now
GRIFFITHS, PHILIP JONES (1936 - 2008), photographer published in a double page spread in The Observer. Assignments in Alaska, Russia and throughout Europe soon followed. By 1966 the lure of constant international travel was waning and Griffiths felt the need for something to get passionate about. With 180,000 American military personnel now in Vietnam, it wasn't difficult to determine that there was something very important happening there. Now an
GROSSMAN, YEHUDIT ANASTASIA (1919 - 2011), Jewish patriot and author word that was not Hebrew'. Ben-Yehuda earnestly believed in the power of Hebrew to ensure the renewal of the Jewish race, a people who had lost their language upon being scattered to the four corners of the earth. Now known under the name Judith Maro, Yehudit contributed extensively to the debate about the future of the Welsh language and of the Welsh nation, through essays published in various
GRUFFUDD ap CYNAN (c. 1055 - 1137), king of Gwynedd . During his imprisonment the Normans gained much land in Gwynedd, and built castles at Bangor, Caernarvon and Aberlleiniog (near the later Beaumaris). It cannot now be stated with certainty how long Gruffudd remained a prisoner (the History at one point says twelve years and at another sixteen years), but he was free by 1094 (and perhaps some years earlier) because he was prominent in the general
GRUFFUDD LLWYD ap DAFYDD ab EINION LLYGLIW (fl. c. 1380-1410), a poet with Welsh literature and folklore, he was entertained at some of the famous courts of his period. His work includes poems to Owain Glyndŵr, Sir David Hanmer, Owain ap Maredudd of Neuadd Wen, and Hywel and Meurig Llwyd of Nannau, love and religious poetry, and it is now certain that he is the author of the poem to send the sun to greet Glamorgan, which has also been attributed to Iolo Goch and Dafydd
GRUFFYDD ap GWENWYNWYN (d. 1286), lord of Upper Powys deeply implicated. From the shelter of his third exile at Shrewsbury, Gruffydd (not without some suspicion of royal encouragement) continued to embarrass Llywelyn, providing in this way one of the occasions for the war of 1277. Reinstated in his barony of Powys after Llywelyn's humiliation, he was still without the lands north of the Dovey; these now became the subject of legal controversy between him
GRUFFYDD ap IEUAN ap LLYWELYN FYCHAN (c. 1485 - 1553), bard and member of a Welsh landed family translation by Richard Davies of some of S. Paul's epistles; this latter manuscript found its way from Llannerch, the home of Gruffydd ap Ieuan and afterwards of his Davies (of Llannerch) descendants, to Gwysaney, Flintshire, the home of the Davies-Cooke family, also descendants. It is now at the National Library of Wales. Gruffydd ap Ieuan was twice in. His first wife was Janet (Sioned), daughter of

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