Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRIFFITHS, JAMES (JEREMIAH) (1890 - 1975), Labour politician and cabinet minister position, being re-elected each year, from 1956-59, when he was succeeded by Bevan, and Griffiths supported George Brown (rather than Harold Wilson) in the strenuously fought 1963 party leadership contest. In 1952 he was appointed a member of the advisory council to the BBC, and he remained a firm advocate of temperance throughout his life. Throughout his political career Griffiths had proved generally
GRIFFITHS, JOHN GWYNEDD (1911 - 2004), scholar, poet and Welsh nationalist and Society in honour of J. Gwyn Griffiths (ed. Alan B. Lloyd), which contains a bibliography of his writings to 1991. A matter of particular joy to him was the opening, in Swansea University in 1998, of the Egypt Centre, a permanent and purpose-built home for the Wellcome Collection of Egyptian Antiquities: he and Käthe Bosse-Griffiths had been instrumental in securing the collection for the
GRUFFUDD GRYG (fl. second half of the 14th century), bard wrote the elegy to Rhys ap Tudur, ' chief of Anglesey,' who was honoured by king Richard and appointed ' keeper of the stags of Snowdonia,' we must believe that the poet lived until the beginning of the next century, because Rhys died in 1412, at Arddreiniog, according to Rowlands (Archæologia Cambrensis, iv, 267) [but according to Panton MS. 23, he was executed at Chester; Lloyd, Owen Glendower, 154
GRUFFYDD ap MADOG (d. 1191) Owain Gwynedd, and had two sons, Madog and Owen. He is called ' Gruffydd Maelor I ' to distinguish him from his grandson ' Gruffydd Maelor II,' who died 1269 (Lloyd, A History of Wales, 769).
GWRTHEYRN '); ' Gweirnyawn ' from ' Gwern '; ' Tygyryawn ' from ' Tengyr,' ' Tyngyr '; ' Lleissyawn ' from ' Lles.' A name ending in '-iawn' can therefore denote the descendants of the family of some chieftain or the district in which they dwell. For the position of Gwerthrynion between the rivers Wye and Ieithon, see Lloyd, A History of Wales, 253-4. For an attempt to explain the name as an example of 'calumpnia iuste
GWYNN, HARRI (fl. c. 1627), poet No details are known of his life. Two examples at least of his work are found in manuscripts, these being elegies to Jenkin Lloyd, heir to the estate of Berth-lwyd, near Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, and to doctor Oliver Lloyd of the same family.
GWYNNE family Llanelwedd, , 199-200, iv, 246-8 (pedigree 21 for Llanelwedd), and in Bradney, Monmouthshire, I, i, 408-9. RODERICK GWYNNE of Llanelwedd was sheriff of Radnorshire in 1633; he was a Cavalier and a commissioner of array. His daughter, SIBIL GWYNNE, married her kinsman GEORGE GWYNNE of Glanbrân (born 1623?), who in 1645 signed the proposals of peace made by the gentry of Carmarthenshire to Rowland Laugharne, and
GWYNNE family Kilvey Junior School roll increased from under 40 to over 600 and the Kilvey Schools were consistently spoken of by the Inspectors as the best in the Swansea area. He was a keen student of geology and history and was for forty years vice-president of the Royal Institution of South Wales. In 1857 he married Charlotte Lloyd (1825 - 1908), at one time the school-mistress of Kilvey. They had five sons and a
GWYNNE, NADOLIG XIMENES (1832 - 1920), soldier and author Cardiff, 1849; died Bournemouth, 1930), the daughter of George William Collins Jackson and Catherine Price Lewis. They had no children. Nadolig Ximenes Gwynne died in Bournemouth on 9 May 1920, aged 87.
HALL, GEORGE HENRY (first Viscount Hall of Cynon Valley), (1881 - 1965), politician Born 31 December 1881 at Penrhiwceiber, Mountain Ash, Glamorganshire, son of George Hall (died 1889), miner, a native of Marshfield, county Gloucester, and Ann Guard, his wife (died 1928) who came from Midsomer Norton, near Radstock, Somerset. He was educated at Penrhiwceiber elementary school, but on attaining his twelfth birthday, he was compelled to leave to take up work in the Penrhiwceiber
HAM, PETER WILLIAM (1947 - 1975), musician and songwriter nomination and two Ivor Novello awards. It remains one of the most covered songs from the 1970s pop canon, and Mariah Carey would return Without You to the top of the UK charts in 1994. Despite mixed contemporary reviews, 1971's Straight Up - produced in part by George Harrison - is now widely considered Badfinger's strongest album. The former Beatle's respect for Pete's musicianship was much noted
HAMER, EDWARD (1840 - 1911), antiquary , uncompleted). He also gave assistance to W. V. Lloyd in compiling his Sheriffs of Montgomeryshire, and to J. Y. W. Lloyd in the preparation of his History of Powys Fadog. He died at Bordesley, Birmingham, 24 November 1911, aged 72.

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