Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRUFFYDD ap LLYWELYN (d. 1244), prince at Gwern Eigron, the first part only of the agreement was fulfilled, for Gruffydd was now made a prisoner in the Tower of London where for over three years he spent an easy confinement in the company of his wife and some of their children, a pawn in the game of Anglo-Welsh politics. His attempt to escape on 1 March 1244 had a fatal ending. He had four sons - Owain Goch, Llywelyn, Dafydd and Rhodri
GRUFFYDD, ELIS (fl. c. 1490-1552), 'the soldier of Calais,' copyist, translator, and chronicler ' The Field of the Cloth of Gold,' near Calais, in 1521, when the emperor Charles V met Henry VIII, and also in the army of the duke of Suffolk (Sir Charles Brandon) during the campaign in France between July and Christmas 1523. From the beginning of 1524 until 1529 he was keeper of Sir Robert Wingfield's palace in London; and it was there that he copied what is now Cardiff Phillipps MS. 10823, a
GUEST, LADY CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH (1812 - 1895), translator, businesswoman and collector woman to receive the freedom of the Worshipful Company of Fanmakers. Lady Charlotte died at Canford Manor, Dorset on 15 January 1895 and is buried in Canford church. In 1950 and 1952 her grandson, the Earl of Bessborough, published edited highlights from her voluminous journals. The originals are now housed in the National Library of Wales.
GUTUN OWAIN (fl. c. 1460- c. 1498), poet, transcriber of manuscripts, and genealogist manuscripts (Llanstephan MS 28 at N.L.W.) must now be rejected - true, the dates are in his own hand, but they are not evidence of the date of the manuscript itself, being merely reproduced (as was usual with transcribers) from the archetype which he was copying, and therefore evidence merely of the date of that archetype. It may indeed be stated with fair certainty that not one of his eight manuscripts is
GWILYM TEW (fl. c. 1460-1480), one of the bards of Glamorgan , including the 'Donatus,' i.e. the grammar that was studied in the bardic schools. Gwilym Tew is, therefore, a fairly important figure in the history of Welsh literature in the 15th century. His cywyddau and awdlau have been collected by J. M. Williams, Swansea; this collection is now amongst the University of Wales theses in the National Library.
GWRTHEYRN thrown on the manner in which Gwrtheyrn became king of the Britons or on his relationship to the sons of Cunedda in Wales. As Gildas also extols the bravery of Emrys, one might conclude that what is now England was his battle-ground, and that what is now Wales was left to the sons of Cunedda. Gildas's praise of Emrys shows that the latter was a Roman; his name, Ambrosius Aurelianus, was Latin, as was
GWYNFARDD BRYCHEINIOG (fl. c. 1180), poet Nothing of his work now remains except two poems: ' Canu y Dewi ' ('a poem to Saint David ') and ' Awdyl yr Arglwydd Rys ' ('an awdl to the lord Rhys '); see Hendregadredd MS. 197-207. His name suggests that he was a native of Brecknock; in his ' Canu y Dewi ' he refers to the 'parish of llanddewi where I worship' and it may be that he is referring to one of the places of that name in that county
GWYNN, HARRI (1913 - 1985), writer and broadcaster Cymru. By 1938 Harri Gwynn, as he now called himself (although he would not formally and legally drop the 'Jones' until 1944), had completed his MA on the Dolobran Quaker, John Kelsall, and was a lecturer with the Workers' Education Association. In 1936 Harri, 'one of the most talented and debonair Bohemians of his generation', according to Meic Stephens, met the science student who would become his
GWYNNE, SACKVILLE (c. 1751 - 1794) A member of the great clan of Gwynne of Glanbrân, near Llandovery, whose mansion, destroyed by fire, now lies in ruin - for the family, see under Gwynne family of Llanelwedd. According to W. R. Williams (Old Wales, iii, 286-8), he was born c. 1751 - if so, the references to him (in Welsh books) as 'an old gentleman' are rather misleading. He married, in 1772 at Dublin and without his father's
HAINES, WILLIAM (1853 - 1922), local historian and bibliographer now preserved in the National Library of Wales in ten manuscript volumes (NLW MS 7541E, NLW MS 7542E, NLW MS 7543E, NLW MS 7544E, NLW MS 7545E, NLW MS 7546E, NLW MS 7547E, NLW MS 7548E, NLW MS 7549E, NLW MS 7550E) the gift of his widow. With this material are preserved six other Haines manuscripts (NLW MS 7551B, NLW MS 7552B, NLW MS 7553-7554B, NLW MS 7555B, NLW MS 7556B), containing letters
HALL, BENJAMIN (1802 - 1867) spoke but little Welsh she organized her household on what were considered Welsh lines and gave Welsh titles to her servants. She was a patron of the Welsh Manuscripts Society and of the Welsh Collegiate Institution at Llandovery. She acquired the manuscripts of Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) now in the National Library of Wales, by purchase from Taliesin Williams (Taliesin ab Iolo). She collaborated
HALL, GEORGE HENRY (first Viscount Hall of Cynon Valley), (1881 - 1965), politician retained his seat with large majorities (twice unopposed) until he was elevated to the peerage in 1946. In the 1929 Labour Government he was given office as Civil Lord of the Admiralty. During the years 1931-35 he matured greatly as a parliamentarian. Hitherto he had concentrated mainly on the affairs of the coalmining industry of which he had an expert knowledge, but now, owing to the depleted ranks of

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