Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRIFFITHS, ARCHIBALD REES (1902 - 1971), painter Archie Griffiths was born at Aberdare on 12 January 1902, one of the five children of William Henry and Sarah Jane Griffiths. The family, which was Welsh-speaking, soon moved to Gorseinon, where the father found work as a collier. On leaving school, Archie Griffiths was employed for two years in the tinplate industry and then joined his father at the Mountain Colliery. According to his own
GRIFFITHS, ERNEST HOWARD (1851 - 1932), physicist and educationalist Born at Brecon, 15 June 1851, son of Henry Griffiths. He was educated at Owens College, Manchester, and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (Sc.D., 1902), of which he was elected a Fellow and later an Honorary Fellow. In 1890 he carried out heat measurements of fundamental importance, culminating in 1893 in the determination of the mechanical equivalent of heat by the electrical method. He was
GRIFFITHS, EVAN (Ieuan Ebblig; 1795 - 1873), Independent minister ceased to have charge of a church, he continued preaching regularly on Sundays. Besides his translation of Mathew Henry he published over forty translations and original works, including translations into Welsh of Finney's Lectures (1839) and Sermons (1841), Burder's Eastern Customs (1837), Brook's Mute Christian (1830), J. A. James's Church Member's Guide, and Doddridge's Rise and Progress … He also
GRIFFITHS, HENRY (1812 - 1891), Independent minister and college tutor Son of James Griffiths (1782 - 1858), who was at that time minister at Machynlleth, but Henry was born at his mother's home, Llanferan, near S. Davids (Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru, iii, 27). From Neuaddlwyd (Y Geninen, 1886, 113) he went to University College, London, where he was greatly influenced by Augustus de Morgan, who strengthened his inclination to mathematics and philosophy. After
GRIFFITHS, HENRY (1825 - 1886), minister - see GRIFFITHS, HENRY
GRUFFUDD ap CYNAN (c. 1055 - 1137), king of Gwynedd himself lord of Gwynedd uwch Conwy, and for the rest of his life he was left undisturbed to consolidate his kingdom. It is true that Henry I led a formidable army into Gwynedd in 1114, but Gruffudd lost no land, and after this he himself did not fight a single battle. The authority of Gwynedd was however greatly extended by his sons, Owain and Cadwaladr, and before Gruffudd's death Ceredigion
GRUFFUDD ap DAFYDD FYCHAN (fl. 15th century), poet Of Tir Iarll in Glamorganshire He is apparently the person referred to as 'Gruffudd mydrydd a enwir gŵr o Fetws Tir Iarll' whose pedigree is given by G. T. Clark in Limbus Patrum, 510. A number of his cywyddau have been preserved, including an elegy on the death of Henry VI, a number of vaticinatory poems, and three love poems, two poems composed by Llywelyn Goch y Dant and Gruffydd ap Dafydd
GRUFFUDD ap NICOLAS (fl. 1415-1460), esquire and a leading figure in the local administration of the principality of South Wales in the middle of the 15th century Carregcennen was repaired and garrisoned upon his command. On the verge of the Wars of the Roses, he was on good terms with the court of Henry VI, and after the Yorkist victory at S. Albans, 1455, he lost some of his offices. Yet, he appears to have taken offence at the coming of Edmund, earl of Richmond, to Pembroke, in 1456, if he was the 'Gruffith Suoh' (sic.) who, with the earl of Richmond, was reported
GRUFFUDD GRYG (fl. second half of the 14th century), bard ]. Before accepting that view one would like to get further testimony on the two points - the authorship of the cywydd and the year of the death of Rhys. When he was returning from a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella, Spain, Gruffudd's ship was nearly cast ashore 'in the land of Henry,' his enemy. Is this not England, in the time of Henry IV, and therefore some time between 1399 and 1413 ? At what
GRUFFYDD ap GWENWYNWYN (d. 1286), lord of Upper Powys the elder son of Gwenwynwyn by Margaret Corbet of Caus. An infant when his father died, an exile in 1216, he was excluded from his inheritance until after the death of Llywelyn I, meanwhile spending his youth and early manhood in England dependent on royal bounty and his mother's dower. When Dafydd II submitted to Henry III in 1241, the king invested Gruffydd (on strictly feudal terms) with the
GRUFFYDD ap LLYWELYN (d. 1244), prince all his territories and imprisoning him and Owain ap Gruffydd, his eldest son, at Criccieth. This last event occurred in the period just before Llywelyn died (April 1240) or immediately afterwards. On 12 August 1241, Senena, Gruffydd's wife, entered into an agreement with Henry III, arranging for her husband's release and restoration. When, a fortnight later, Dafydd was obliged to submit to the king
GRUFFYDD ap RHYS (c. 1090 - 1137), prince of Deheubarth indisposed to resist the Norman monarchy, including Gruffudd ap Cynan who was prepared to hand his young kinsman over to Henry I when in 1115 he sought sanctuary in Gwynedd. The failure of the resistance movement which reached its climax in the open rebellion of 1116 was inevitable. Gruffydd ap Rhys nevertheless reached an accommodation with Henry and was given land in the commote of Caeo. Apart from a

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