Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GIBSON, Sir JOHN (1841 - 1915), journalist
GIBSON-WATT, JAMES DAVID (BARON GIBSON-WATT), (1918 - 2002), Member of Parliament and public figure of 70. He married Diana Hambro, the second daughter of Sir Charles Hambro, Chairman of Hambro's Bank Ltd., on 10 January 1942 and they had three sons and two daughters; their eldest son, Jamie, died on 24 October 1946 at the age of three. Diana Gibson-Watt died in August 2000. Lord Gibson-Watt died at Doldowlod on 7 February 2002. The funeral was a private family occasion and a public memorial
GIFFORD, ISABELLA (c. 1825 - 1891), botanist and algologist Isabella Gifford was born in south Wales (Swansea according to one source, Defynnog, Breconshire, according to other sources) around 1825. She was the daughter of George St John Gifford (died 1869), who served with Sir John Moore in the battle of A Coruña in 1809, and his wife Isabella (died 1891), who were married in 1824. Her mother, Isabella, was the daughter of the industrialist John Christie
GILDAS (fl. 6th cent), monk Columban (Columbanus) in a letter to pope Gregory, c. 600. For his contribution to the second wave of Irish saints see Hugh Williams, Gildas, 416; see also Sir John Lloyd's considered opinion of him generally (A History of Wales, 134-43).
GITTINS, CHARLES EDWARD (1908 - 1970), educationalist Education Committee, the executive committee of the National Foundation for Educational Research, a governor of the National College for the Training of Youth Leaders, chairman of the Statutory Committee on Youth Employment, treasurer of the Standing Conference of Studies in Education, a member of the Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales under the chairmanship of Sir Guildhaume Myrddin-Evans, a
GLYN family Glynllifon, , bankers. Thomas's son, Sir WILLIAM GLYN (knighted in Dublin in 1606 for military services in Ireland) was highly esteemed in the county, and was reckoned a man of high honour and integrity. He married Jane, the daughter of John Griffith of Cefnamwlch, and by her he had six sons and five daughters; he died in 1620. His successor at Glynllifon was THOMAS GLYN (three times M.P. for Caernarvonshire). In the
GLYNNE family This was a branch of the Glynn or Glynne family of Glynllifon, Caernarfonshire, whose ancestry may be traced back to Cilmin Droed-ddu, the founder of the fourth noble tribe of Gwynedd. In 1654 the castle and manor of Hawarden, together with the estate, were purchased by JOHN GLYNNE (1602 - 1666), the second son of Sir William Glynne of Glynllifon. Educated at Westminster, he matriculated at Hart
GOODMAN, GABRIEL (1528 - 1601), dean of Westminster and founder of Christ's Hospital, Ruthin fallen after the dissolution of the collegiate church of S. Peter. In 1595 he added a grammar-school to the foundation. In 1600 he brought to the notice of Sir Robert Cecil a petition from the inhabitants of Ruthin complaining of their burden of taxation; and he was active a few months before his death in an unsuccessful attempt to obtain a new charter for the borough. He died 17 June 1601 and was
GOUGE, THOMAS (1605? - 1681), Nonconformist divine and philanthropist there until 1638 when he received the living of S. Sepulchre's, London. In 1639, he married Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Darcy. In his London parish he regularly catechized the aged and the poor, and once a week distributed money among them, but changed the day in order to encourage constant attendance. In 1662, owing to his disagreement with the Act of Conformity, he was ejected from his living, and
GOULD MORGAN, Sir CHARLES (d. 1806), M.P. - see MORGAN
GOULD, ARTHUR JOSEPH (1864 - 1919), Rugby footballer
GOULD, Sir CHARLES (d. 1806), M.P. - see MORGAN

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