Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GERAINT, Baron - see HOWELLS, GERAINT WYN
GOODWIN, GERAINT (1903 - 1941), author
GRIFFITHS, ARCHIBALD REES (1902 - 1971), painter with critical acclaim. Alongside drawings and etchings, Griffiths showed portraits and mining subject pictures, including Miners Returning from Work, which was bought by Coombe Tennant. After his marriage, Griffiths lived in London, where his financial situation rapidly deteriorated, and he drank heavily. He was helped by his friend, the writer Geraint Goodwin, whose portrait he painted and who
GRUFFYDD, R. GERAINT - see GRUFFYDD, ROBERT GERAINT
GRUFFYDD, ROBERT GERAINT (1928 - 2015), Welsh scholar R. Geraint Gruffydd was born on 9 June 1928 in Egryn, an ancient house in Tal-y-bont, Dyffryn Ardudwy. He was the second of the two children of Moses Griffith (1893-1973), researcher in experimental agriculture and later an independent agricultural advisor, and his wife Ceridwen (née Ellis), a teacher of Welsh and Latin. He had an elder sister, Meinir (1926-1992). Egryn had been the home of the
HOWELLS, GERAINT WYN (Baron Geraint), (1925 - 2004), farmer and politician , Howells and Geraint Morgan, the Conservative member for Denbighshire, presented a minority report urging that Welsh language programmes should be increased each year until one channel in Wales was broadcasting entirely in Welsh. The formation of the Social Democratic Party in March 1981 challenged the Liberal Party for the centre of politics. The two parties were brought together in the Alliance, a
HUGHES, HUGH JOHN (1912 - 1978), schoolteacher, author, editor and reviewer to the Meironeth Education Committee for producing Atlas Meirionydd (1974) under the editorship of Geraint Bowen. He was became an 'Honorary Member' of the Gorsedd of Bards (Druidic Order) at the National Eisteddfod, Bala, 1967. He was a member of the Council of the Merioneth Historical and Record Society, from 1967 until his death. He held popular evening classes in Ardudwy on the cynganeddion
JAMES, DAVID (Defynnog; 1865 - 1928), schoolmaster, educationist, organiser of summer schools, and author three daughters. They had one son, David Geraint.
JONES, ELIZABETH MAY WATKIN (1907 - 1965), teacher and campaigner competition at the National Eisteddfod held at Swansea in 1964. She won first prize and the praise of the judge Geraint Dyfnallt Owen (1908-1993), for 'entering directly into the society of a foreign country rather than wandering around the edges'. Even whilst she clearly delighted in 'my dear adopted country', Elizabeth did not forget the destiny of her native region on these journeys: on a visit to
JONES, GWILYM THOMAS (1908 - 1956), solicitor and administrator Assistant Solicitor of Caernarfonshire County Council. In 1942, he was appointed Deputy Clerk of Caernarfonshire County Council, and in 1945 Clerk of the Council. Whilst a student at Bangor, he met Marion Hughes from Llanelli, who was studying in the Department of Welsh. They married in 1940, and made their home at 'Penlan', 2 Llys Meirion, Caernarfon. They had three sons: Geraint (b. 1942), who died of
JONES, ROBERT (Trebor Aled; 1866 - 1917), poet and Baptist minister 1905. He published Fy Lloffyn Cyntaf, sef Casgliad o Gynyrchion Prydyddol, 1894; Cofiant y Diweddar Thomas Jones, Llansannan, 1901; Awdl Geraint ac Enid (Testyn y Gadair, Eisteddfod Frenhinol Genedlaethol Rhyl, 1904, 1905); Pleser a Phoen, sef Cyfrol o Farddoniaeth yn y Llon a'r Lleddf, 1908; Talhaiarn, 1916. He died 7 January 1917.
LLWYD, HUMPHREY (c. 1527 - 1568), antiquary and map-maker had received his B.A. in 1547 and thereafter had been a commoner of Brasenose College where he received his M.A. in 1551. Wood's assertion that Llwyd studied medicine appears to be based on the existence of two translations of medical texts which were ascribed to Llwyd. However, as Professor R. Geraint Gruffydd points out, they are more likely to have been the work of Humphrey Lloyd of Leighton who

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