Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GEE, THOMAS (1815 - 1898), Calvinistic Methodist minister, journalist, and politician the Traethodydd, a quarterly edited by Lewis Edwards of Bala. In 1854 he started another great venture - the publication of Y Gwyddoniadur, an encyclopaedia completed in ten volumes by 1878 at a cost of about £20,000. A second edition of this work was published in 1896. On 4 March 1857 the first number of Baner Cymru, a weekly paper, appeared and in October 1859 this was amalgamated with Yr Amserau
GIBBON, JAMES MORGAN (1855 - 1932), Independent minister -9); and Stamford Hill, London (1889-1932). He died 14 March 1932. He was exceptionally popular as a preacher and under his ministry the membership at Stamford Hill increased from 355 to 1,055. He was a prominent member of Caleb Morris's club in London and remained a warm-hearted Welshman all his life. He was elected a member of the royal commission on the Church of England and other religious
GIBSON-WATT, JAMES DAVID (BARON GIBSON-WATT), (1918 - 2002), Member of Parliament and public figure argued for a 'no' vote in the devolution referendum on 1 March 1979. In the Queen's Birthday Honours List on 26 June 1979, he was made a life peer and took the title of Baron Gibson-Watt, of the Wye in the District of Radnor. His maiden speech in the House of Lords, as in the House of Commons almost thirty years earlier, was on the subject of forestry. Lord Hailsham, the Lord Chancellor, appointed
GILLHAM, MARY ELEANOR (1921 - 2013), naturalist and educator before. With her new-found time she expanded her travel, and began turning 30 years' worth of notes into books. After nearly 50 years of working to protect and rehabilitate nature she was awarded an MBE for services to nature conservation in 2009. Mary Gillham died in the Royal Glamorgan hospital, Cardiff on 23 March 2013, aged 91 and was cremated at Thornhill Crematorium on 8 April. After her death
GITTINS, EDWARD (Iorwerth Pentyrch; 1843 - 1884), local historian for an essay in Welsh on the history of Llanfair. His work had considerable merit and was translated into English by T. W. Hancock and published in Collections, historical & archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire, xvi and xvii. The author died early in March 1884 at the age of forty-one, and was buried on 6 March.
GLYNNE family succeeded by his son Sir WILLIAM GLYNNE (died 1689), who, on 21 May 1666, at the general distribution of honours after the Restoration, was made a baronet. Educated at Jesus College, Oxford, he took his degree on 25 March 1656. In January 1658 he was elected to represent Caernarvon in Richard Cromwell's Parliament. He was sheriff of Flintshire in 1673, and inherited the Hawarden estate on his father's
GORE, HUGH (1613 - 1691), bishop, founder of Swansea grammar school Bussy Mansell are still preserved in Swansea Guildhall. Gore retired to Swansea to live in 1689 and was buried in S. Mary's church there on 27 March 1691.
GREENLY, EDWARD (1861 - 1951), geologist was awarded the Lyell Medal of the Geological Soc. in 1920, the Medal of the Liverpool Geol. Soc. in 1933. He was made D.Sc. hon. causa Un. of Wales in 1920. He died at Bangor 4 March 1951.
GRESHAM, COLIN ALASTAIR (1913 - 1989), archaeologist, historian and author at Bangor on 3 March following a public service at St Catherine's church, Cricieth. His ashes, in accordance with his wishes, were scattered on Penystumllyn land from where there is a panoramic view of Cricieth town and castle. A commemorative plaque to him was unveiled in Cricieth library on 23 October 1992. Gresham could have said of the commote of Eifionydd what the historian A. L. Rowse said of
GRIFFITH family PENRHYN, held by his father) in a grant to him by Edward IV of an annuity of £18 5s.; the annuity was renewed by Richard III in March 1484 (Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1476-85, 18, 418). At Michaelmas 1483 he was appointed chamberlain of North Wales by Richard III; the appointment was confirmed by Henry VII within a month of Bosworth (Davies, Conway and Menai Ferries, 48; Owen, Manuscripts rel. to Wales in the Brit. Mus
GRIFFITH family Cefn Amwlch, Penllech, Llŷn before March 1628. Another son, Edmund Griffith I, became dean of Bangor in 1613 and was promoted to the bishopric in 1633. It was during the lifetime of JOHN GRIFFITH I and particularly of his son, JOHN GRIFFITH II, that the star of Cefn Amwlch rose to the ascendant with the successful challenging of the supremacy of the Wynn family of Gwydir and their allies in Caernarvonshire. A graduate (1609) of
GRIFFITH(S), DAVID (1726 - 1816), cleric and schoolmaster of Glascwm. Sometime before 1757 he married Frances (born 1731), daughter of Hugh Morgan of Betws Diserth (H.S. Rads., 1724). She was buried at S. John the Evangelist, Brecon, 12 March 1792 (Griffith had been assistant curate there for some years before 1758). In that year, 10 March, he became vicar of Merthyr Cynog, and 14 August master of Brecon grammar-school. He held the vicariate till his

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