Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRUFFYDD, ROBERT GERAINT (1928 - 2015), Welsh scholar was at Bethel church and he was buried in Cefn-llan cemetery, Llanbadarn Fawr, 1 April.
GUEST family, iron-masters, coal owners, etc. he became an Associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers. In 1837 Guest presided at a meeting of the inhabitants of Merthyr called to consider the propriety of obtaining an act of Parliament for the incorporation of Merthyr. The town had, however, to wait nearly seventy years to see this ambition realized, its first mayor being elected in 1906. Guest was elected, 1 April 1837, as the first
GWILYM ap IEUAN HEN (fl. c. 1440-1480), poet Owain of Caereinion (Brogyntyn MS. 1 (128)), and Dafydd Llwyd ap Dafydd ab Einion of Newtown (NLW MS 16B (206)), and other members of the ruling classes of his period. Brogyntyn MS. 2 (437b, 439b, 440b); Cwrtmawr MS 129B (158), Cwrtmawr MS 243B (141); NLW MS 16B (215).
GWILYM DDU O ARFON (fl. c. 1280-1320), poet it is said that he lived in the place called Muriau Gwilym Ddu (Enwogion Sir Gaernarfon). A little of his work remains in manuscript and this includes two poems in praise of Sir Gruffydd Llwyd of Tregarnedd and written while Gruffydd was imprisoned in Rhuddlan castle, and an elegy to Trahaearn Brydydd ap Goronwy, or Trahaearn Brydydd Mawr - Jes. Coll. MS. 1 and 'Llyfr Coch Hergest' (1225, 1229
GWRTHEYRN ; he relates that the king received them in a kind manner and gave them the island which in their tongue is called ' Tanet.' Bede assigns this occurrence to the year 347 after the Passion of Christ - 'when Gratianus and Equitius were the rulers' (Mommsen, 171-2). This is much too early; as Stenton says (Anglo-Saxon England, 1), when S. Germanus visited Britain in 447 the Britons had not yet been
GWYN, FRANCIS (1648? - 1734), politician son and heir of Edward Gwyn of Llansannor, Glamorganshire, and Eleanor, youngest daughter of Sir Francis Popham of Littlecott, Wiltshire, he was born at Combe Florey, Somerset, in 1648 or 1649. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, 1 June 1666, aged seventeen, and became a student of the Middle Temple in 1667. He was called to the Bar but later forsook law for politics and between 1673 and
GWYN, JOHN (d. 1574), lawyer, placeman, and educational benefactor describes him as 'learned and a Wise man and a bountifull housekeeper.' He died, unmarried, in 1574, having 'gathered a great Estate' which he left to his brother and executor GRIFFITH, with provision in his will (1 June 1574, quoted Cal. of Wynn Papers, 54; Baker, Hist. of S. John's, i, 421-2; Barber and Lewis, Hist. of Friars School, 170-1) for £40 a year out of the Maenan estate to maintain three
GWYNN, EIRWEN MEIRIONA (1916 - 2007), scientist, educator and author Eirwen Meiriona St. John Williams was born at 99 Shiel Road, Newsham Park, Liverpool, on 1 December 1916. (A family story tells that 12 December was recorded by her father, in order to avoid a fine for late registration of the birth.) Eirwen was the eldest of the two children of William (St.) John Williams (1886-1957) and his wife Annie (née Williams, 1885-1969). Her brother, Gwilym Gareth (Gari
GWYNNE family Llanelwedd, 1689-90, 1698, 1700-1, and at other times for an English borough - twenty-three years in all. Though knighted (1680) by Charles II, he was a stout Whig, and is eulogized in Macaulay's History; he initiated the 'association oath' and was a strong defender of lord chancellor Somers. He held a household office under William and Mary, but fell out of favour in Anne's reign, and died 24 January 1725/6
HAINES, WILLIAM (1853 - 1922), local historian and bibliographer Born 24 May 1853, at Bryn, Penpergwm, Monmouthshire, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Haines. Educated at the grammar school, Abergavenny, he became a solicitor's clerk. He married (1) 1876, Clara Ann Rutherford (died 1880), of Rockhampton, Gloucestershire, and (2) Mary Nicholas (died 1944) of Llangibby, Monmouth, who shared her husband's literary interests. Haines collected an extensive library of
HALL, GEORGE HENRY (first Viscount Hall of Cynon Valley), (1881 - 1965), politician on coal. He was awarded honorary LL.D. degrees by the University of Birmingham in 1945 (of which Anthony Eden was chancellor) and the University of Wales in 1946. Always a faithful member of the Church in Wales he was elected a member of its Representative Body. Lord Hall was twice married: (1) to Margaret, died of William Jones of Ynysybwl, 12 October 1910. She died 24 July 1941. There were two
HAM, PETER WILLIAM (1947 - 1975), musician and songwriter early hours of April 24, 1975, Pete Ham hanged himself in his garage; a suicide note was found nearby, condemning Stan Polley. His ashes were scattered at Swansea Crematorium on 1 May 1975. Pete and Anne's daughter, Petera, was born on 31 May. Dogged by ongoing disputes and litigation, and haunted by his bandmate's death, Tom Evans took his own life on 19 November 1983. For many years, the suicide of

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