Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRIFFITHS, JOHN POWELL (1875 - 1944), minister (Baptist) and schoolmaster insisted that students should concentrate on the content of their sermons. Few denominational honours came to him - indeed he did not seek honours nor offices. He was reluctant to accept the Presidency of the North Wales Baptist Union which came to him twice. He died after a short illness on Sunday, 5 March, 1944 at the age of 69. He was cremated the following Wednesday and according to his wishes, his
GRIFFITHS, MORRIS (1721 - 1769), Independent minister Born in 1721 at Pen-y-bryn, Llangybi, Caernarfonshire, Magdalen, wife of Robert Jones of Rhos-lan (1745-1829), was his brother's daughter. At one time he worked for William Prichard (1702 - 1773) of Glasfryn Fawr, and then began to exhort, meeting with persecution at the outset of his career. He was admitted to Carmarthen Academy in 1750 and ordained minister of Trefgarn and Rhosycaerau
GRIFFITHS, ROBERT (1805 - 1883), engineer and inventor
GRIFFITHS, ROBERT (1824 - 1903), musician
GRIFFITHS, WILLIAM (1788 - 1861), Calvinistic Methodist minister the request of Diana, lady Barham, sent him as a missionary to the English -speaking people of Gower, Glamorganshire. He was ordained at the Association meeting at Llangeitho, 1824. He laboured unceasingly in his field and, although the relations between him and lady Barham were not always happy, succeeded in founding a number of churches. He was the father of Methodism in Gower and it is as the
GROSSMAN, YEHUDIT ANASTASIA (1919 - 2011), Jewish patriot and author from Wardley, Tyne and Wear, who had worked with 224 Parachute Field Ambulance in Palestine following service in Europe during the war. As Yehudit and Jones's relationship flourished, animosity was developing between Britain and the Israelis. In Atgofion Haganah, Yehudit wrote of joining the Palmach, the commando wing of Haganah, at some point during this busy year and of her contribution to the
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 ' The Field of the Cloth of Gold,' near Calais, in 1521, when the emperor Charles V met Henry VIII, and also in the army of the duke of Suffolk (Sir Charles Brandon) during the campaign in France between July and Christmas 1523. From the beginning of 1524 until 1529 he was keeper of Sir Robert Wingfield's palace in London; and it was there that he copied what is now Cardiff Phillipps MS. 10823, a
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.

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