Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GAMBOLD family There was a family of this name in Cardigan town in the 17th and 18th century. When Lewis Morris of Anglesey was imprisoned at Cardigan in 1753, and released on bail (Morris Letters, f.n. on i, 223), he stayed at the house of a William Gamold - conceivably, but not very probably, the William Gambold with whom the present notice closes. Further, a Gambold or ' Gambwll' is repeatedly mentioned in
GEOFFREY (1090? - 1155), bishop of St Asaph and chronicler Geoffrey was born between 1090 and 1100; it is probable that his family was Breton and he was brought up in a Norman-Breton environment at Monmouth. His name appears on the charter of Osney Abbey, Oxford, in 1129; between that date and 1151 it appears on six other documents relating to the Oxford neighbourhood. In these he is associated with his friend Walter, archdeacon of Oxford, 1115 - 1151
GEORGE, THOMAS (fl. 1829-1840), miniature painter exhibited a portrait at the Royal Academy as early as 1829, and his work was exhibited there on five occasions between 1829 and 1838. He is said to have been living at Haverfordwest in 1824; it seems certain that he worked for some time in Pembrokeshire as he painted portraits of several members of the Harries of Tre-gwynt family. He was working in London in 1826, according to the evidence supplied by a
GEORGE, WILLIAM (1865 - 1967), solicitor and public figure on the formation of his character and on his attitude towards the world and its events. He was educated at the National School, Llanystumdwy, but his uncle and his mother refused to let him train as a pupil-teacher. The family moved to Cricieth in 1880. William George took articles in 1882 and succeeded in his final examination with honours and was fourth in the first class, a considerable
GIBBON, LEVI (1807? - 1870), ballad-writer and singer there is evidence that he and his family were afforded relief at Carmarthen workhouse in February 1844. He died at Blaen-y-waun in Llanwinio parish, 1 August 1870, at the age of sixty-three; his wife Ann died 30 January 1897, at the age of ninety-two; both are buried in the same grave in the Baptist graveyard at Ramoth, Cwmfelin-mynach.
GIBSON, JOHN (1790 - 1866), sculptor family continued for many years and Roscoe's grand-daughter, Mrs. Henry Sandbach of Hafodunos, near Abergele, remained his close friend and what was probably his only link with Wales in his later years. Gibson moved in 1817 to London where he obtained commissions from Watson Taylor and where he met some of the leading sculptors of the day. In October 1817 he arrived at Rome, where he studied the art of
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 for a time as a land agent for his father-in-law, but the family moved during Isabella's childhood, spending periods in France, Jersey, Melcombe Regis, Dorsetshire, and Falmouth in Cornwall. They were living in Falmouth when Isabella's only brother died in September 1844. Isabella was educated by her mother and, although her mother had no scientific abilities or interests herself, it is possible
GILDAS (fl. 6th cent), monk does not name a single one. The Britons are cowardly people, unskilled in warfare, and yet somehow they did win some great victories; only one successful general is named - and he came of a Roman family - Ambrosius Aurelianus, and Gildas must perforce add that his descendants had greatly deteriorated. Five kings of Britain are named by him and he exposes the corrupt and wicked life of each one of
GILLHAM, MARY ELEANOR (1921 - 2013), naturalist and educator Mary Gillham was born in Ealing on 26 November 1921, the daughter of wood- and metal-work teacher Charles Thomas Gillham (1890-1974) and professional dressmaker Edith Gertrude (née Husband, 1887-1975) and sister to John Charles Gillham (1917-2009). Despite living within London the family were keen campers and would regularly travel out into the countryside on weekends and holidays. This, with
GLENN, THOMAS ALLEN (1864 - 1948), soldier, historian, genealogist, and archaeologist ); Newmarket notes (Prestatyn Hundred, Flintshire), Parts 1 & 2 (Prestatyn 1911, 1912); Northern Flintshire, historical, genealogical and archaeological, Vol. I, Parts 1-3 (Horncastle, 1913); (with Lord Mostyn), History of the Family of Mostyn of Mostyn (1925); The Family of Griffith of Garn and Plasnewydd in the County of Denbigh (London, 1934).
GLYN family Glynllifon, Traditionally the family was derived from Cilmin Droed-ddu, who settled in the place after his flight from his native Cumbria in the 9th century, and historically from Tudur Goch who for war services under Edward III obtained a grant of escheat lands in Nantlle. By his marriage with Morfudd, another descendant of Cilmin, he obtained Glynllifon, which became the chief seat of his descendants

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