Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRIFFITH family PENRHYN, held by his father) in a grant to him by Edward IV of an annuity of £18 5s.; the annuity was renewed by Richard III in March 1484 (Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1476-85, 18, 418). At Michaelmas 1483 he was appointed chamberlain of North Wales by Richard III; the appointment was confirmed by Henry VII within a month of Bosworth (Davies, Conway and Menai Ferries, 48; Owen, Manuscripts rel. to Wales in the Brit. Mus
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
GRIFFITH family Garn, Plasnewydd, conclusions reached by the editor of Detholiad o Waith Gruffudd ab Ieuan ap Llewelyn Vychan (Bangor, 1910), was able to throw additional light on the career of the bard. Gruffydd ap Ieuan's first wife was Janet, daughter of Richard ap Howel (see Mostyn of Mostyn); his successor in the Griffith line was THOMAS AP GRIFFITH AP IEUAN, his son by his second wife, Alice, daughter of John Owen, Tre Bwll
GRIFFITH, DAVID (Clwydfardd; 1800 - 1894), eisteddfodic bard and arch-druid Nantglyn (Robert Davies, 1769 - 1835) on many occasions and was awarded a silver medal as early as 1827 for a translation of Goldsmith's 'Deserted Village,' and composed the englynion which appear on the tombstone of Owen Williams of Waun-fawr (1790 - 1874). In 1890 the government made him an award of £200. He died 30 October 1894.
GRIFFITH, GEORGE (1601 - 1666), bishop chancellor of the diocese of S. Asaph as well as of Bangor. Griffith went to Westminster school and afterwards to Oxford (Christ Church); M.A. 1626, D.D. 1635. Under John Owen, bishop of St Asaph, father-in-law to his brother William, his promotion was rapid - domestic chaplain, canon, rector of Newtown, by 1633 rector both of Llanymynech and of Llandrinio (having surrendered Newtown). In the convocation
GRIFFITH, GEORGE WILLIAM (1584 - 1655?), landowner, attorney, magistrate, and antiquary of Penybenglog, Pembrokeshire; born 21 April 1584, eldest son of William Griffith. He married 22 November 1605, Maud Bowen of Llwyn-gwair, by whom he had seven children. He was appointed public clerk in Pembrokeshire by the council of the Marches, was sometime Seneschal of Cemais, he assisted George Owen of Henllys with historical researches, and compiled many genealogical manuscripts. Bards from
GRIFFITH, JAMES MILO (1843 - 1897), sculptor placed in Margam castle by C. M. Talbot. On one occasion the Royal Academy accepted as many as eight of his works - the highest number admissible. He exhibited regularly at the National Eisteddfod and in 1883 delivered a notable lecture on 'The relationship between the eisteddfod and art.' His best known works are his statue of John Batchelor at Cardiff (1884) and that of Sir Hugh Owen at Caernarvon
GRIFFITH, JOHN (1863 - 1933), schoolmaster and musician Born at Rhiw, Llŷn, 18 April 1863, the eldest son of Siôn Griffith, shoemaker, of Pen-y-groes, Rhiw, and Martha Griffith, Pen Nebo, Rhiw. He was educated at Botwnnog grammar school, was a pupil teacher at Nebo, Llanllyfni, and a student at Bangor Normal College, 1881-2, and became headmaster of the British Schools at Glanwydden and Machynlleth. He married Dorothy, daughter of Owen Jones, Siop
GRIFFITH, JOHN (Y Gohebydd; 1821 - 1877), newspaper correspondent, campaigner for education, and principal mover in re-establishing the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion Born 16 December 1821 at Bodgwilym near Barmouth, son of Griffith and Maria Griffith - his mother being the eldest daughter of John Roberts (1767 - 1834) of Llanbryn-mair. After having had an elementary education at Barmouth he was, about 1836, apprenticed to William Owen, ' Grocer, Draper, and Druggist ' at Barmouth, with whom he remained until 1840. After that he was a shop assistant in
GRIFFITH, JOHN OWEN (Ioan Arfon; 1828 - 1881), poet and critic Born at Fronllwyd, Waun-fawr, Caernarfonshire, son of Owen Griffith Owen, a quarryman. He learned to read at the Moriah Independent chapel Sunday school, Waun Fawr, and, after attending the local day school for two years, went to work at the Dinorwic quarry. He was then 12 years of age. Huw Tegai and Caledfryn encouraged him to study Welsh literature and in 1865 he won the chair at the Bethesda
GRIFFITH, OWEN (Ywain Meirion, Owen Gospiol; 1803 - 1868), ballad-writer and strolling ballad-singer If we could be quite certain that he was the man who under the pseudonym Owen Meirion wrote the article on the history of Bala, in Y Brython, 1860, 264-5, we could say that he was born at Bala. He sang in fairs all over Wales - he is heard of, e.g. at Machynlleth, Holywell, Llanfyllin, Llanrwst, and the Caernarvonshire fairs, and he was very well known in South Wales. He always wore a top-hat

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