Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GROSSMAN, YEHUDIT ANASTASIA (1919 - 2011), Jewish patriot and author Roberts, to find a more suitable home in a council house at Pentrefelin, between Cricieth and Porthmadog (she named it 'Carmel'); Jones joined her in March 1952, recovered from his illness and ready to resume his career as a sculptor. The family remained there until the summer of 1955, when they moved to Plas Afon, a substantial house in the middle of Pentrefelin, which they were able to buy through a
GROVE, Sir WILLIAM ROBERT (1811 - 1896), scientist and lawyer
GRUFFUDD ap CYNAN (c. 1055 - 1137), king of Gwynedd same year Gruffudd crossed over from Ireland intent on regaining his patrimony, and landed at Abermenai. With the help of Robert of Rhuddlan he overcame and killed Cynwrig, who held Llyn under Trahaearn. Trahaearn himself was conquered in a battle fought somewhere in Meirionnydd and compelled to retreat to his own lands of Arwystli. As king of Gwynedd Gruffudd's first act was to attack the Norman
GRUFFUDD HIRAETHOG (d. 1564), bard and herald the 16th century, such as Simwnt Fychan, Wiliam Llŷn, Wiliam Cynwal, Siôn Tudur and Raff ap Robert having been his disciples. Some of these men came into possession of his manuscripts after his death. Gruffudd Hiraethog best exemplifies the interest in heraldry which was characteristic of the bards of his period, and extensive collections of pedigrees made by him still remain such as Peniarth MS 132
GRUFFUDD LEIAF (fl. 15th century), poet those of Robert Leiaf and Syr Siôn Leiaf, two other members of Gruffudd's family, in various other manuscripts. (Jones and Lewis, Mynegai). His son, Ieuan ap Gruffudd Leiaf, is separately noticed.
GRUFFYDD, ELIS (fl. c. 1490-1552), 'the soldier of Calais,' copyist, translator, and chronicler He was born some time between 1490 and 1500 in Gronnant Uchaf, Gwespyr, in the parish of Llanasa, Flintshire, where he inherited twenty-four acres of land from his uncle Siôn ap Dafydd. Nothing is known of his early life in Wales, but in his 'Chronicle' (v. infra) he has much to say about himself in the service of the Wingfield family, in London and France. He was with Sir Robert Wingfield on
GRUFFYDD, ROBERT (1753 - 1820), musician Born at Pen-cefn, Llanbeblig, Caernarfonshire. He came to be known as 'Cantwr Salmau' because he visited churches to teach the congregations to sing. Owen Williams o Fôn in his Gamut, testifies to Robert Gruffydd's musical skill and believed that he had composed several hymntunes for Brenhinol Ganiadau Seion (Owen Williams). He wrote 'Difyrwch gwŷr Caernarfon' and 'Difyrwch gwŷr y Gogledd' - the
GRUFFYDD, ROBERT (Patrobas; 1832 - 1863), poet Born at Pen-y-maes, Nevin, Caernarfonshire, son of Robert and Catrin Gruffydd. He contributed poems to Y Dysgedydd and other journals and, in 1862, published a small volume entitled Byr Ganeuon gan Patrobas (Pwllheli). He died 20 or 21 April 1863 of tuberculosis, leaving a widow and two children, and was buried at Nevin.
GRUFFYDD, ROBERT GERAINT (1928 - 2015), Welsh scholar of the court poets of the princes of medieval Wales is a worthy memorial to his inspiring leadership. He retired in 1993 and was appointed Honorary Senior Fellow that year. A festschrift, Beirdd a Thywysogion: barddoniaeth llys yng Nghymru, Iwerddon a'r Alban (eds Morfydd E. Owen and Brynley F. Roberts), was published in 1996. The subject of his PhD dissertation was a challenging one. It
GRUFFYDD, WILLIAM JOHN (1881 - 1954), scholar, poet, critic and editor eisteddfod of 1909 for his poem on ' Yr Arglwydd Rhys '. Love lyrics by him appeared in the periodical Cymru in 1900, and in the same year he and his friend R. Silyn Roberts published a collection of their poems under the title Telynegion: Caneuon a Cherddi, Gruffydd's own poems, followed in 1906. In 1923 Ynys yr Hud a chaneuon eraill appeared, containing poems written between 1900 and 1922. A selection of
GRYFFYTH, JASPER (d. 1614), cleric, warden of Ruthin hospital, chaplain to archbishop Bancroft, collector of manuscripts proved 28 May, and he was buried in the chancel of Hinckley parish church, 25 May. He names his wife, Mary, his son Bartholomew, and his daughters Elizabeth, Marye, and Anne, with a suggestion that the children were minors. His wife was a daughter of John Roberts of Park, Llanfrothen. In a letter to Sir Robert Cotton, 1613, Jasper Gryffyth lists forty Latin manuscripts in his possession, and other
GWEN ferch ELLIS (c. 1552 - 1594), first victim of execution for witchcraft in Wales Thomas Mostyn. Two of Jane Conway's sons were Puritan clergymen who published anti-witchcraft tracts - Henry Holland, author of A Treatise against Witchcraft (1590), and Robert Holland, author of the Welsh-language dialogue Dau Gymro yn taring yn bell o'u gwlad (c. 1595), the latter quite possibly intended to demonstrate the family's opposition to witchcraft following the trial of Gwen ferch Ellis

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