Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRUFFYDD, ROBERT GERAINT (1928 - 2015), Welsh scholar deep personal fund of knowledge on which to draw when he needed to. In 1955 he was appointed lecturer in Welsh at the University College of North Wales Bangor where he remained until 1970 when he was appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Welsh at the University College of Wales Aberystwyth. He seized the opportunity to develop work that had been initiated by his predecessor Thomas Jones
GRUFFYDD, THOMAS (1815 - 1887), one of the best known harpists of his period Born at Llangynidr, Brecknock, grandson of the rector of that parish. The fact that he lost his sight at an early age did not hinder his progress. A pupil of John Wood Jones, family harpist at Glanbran near Llandovery, he subsequently occupied a similar position at Llanover, Monmouth. Most of his life, apparently, was spent in Llanover, where he also kept a smallholding. He won the triple harp in
GRUFFYDD, WILLIAM JOHN (1881 - 1954), scholar, poet, critic and editor englynion, an introduction explaining a theory of John Rhŷs that the englyn was an adaptation in Welsh of the Latin elegiac couplet (a theory refuted by J. Morris-Jones in his Cerdd Dafod). In 1931 Y Flodeugerdd Gymraeg appeared, an anthology of poetry in the free metres of the period between the seventeenth and the twentieth centuries, with an introduction which is interesting for the light it throws on
GUEST, LADY CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH (1812 - 1895), translator, businesswoman and collector by the Rector, Evan Jenkins. Working with the Welsh clerics, notably Reverends Thomas Price ('Carnhuanawc') and John Jones ('Tegid') and drawing upon the research inspired by the Romantic revival and the translation work of William Owen Pughe who had recently died, Lady Charlotte began transcribing and translating into English eleven medieval Welsh tales (from the Llyfr Coch o Hergest / Red Book of
GWILYM DDU O ARFON (fl. c. 1280-1320), poet ). An englyn on the coronation of king Edward II in 1307 is also attributed to him (Enwogion Sir Gaernarfon). It is stated that he was poet to prince Llywelyn ap Gruffydd (Edward Jones, Relicks …) but no examples of his poetry to Llywelyn have yet been found.
GWYN, JOHN (d. 1574), lawyer, placeman, and educational benefactor law, but Griffith Wynn and his co-executor Dr. Henry Jones (see under William Awbrey) agreed to reduce the foundation to two Fellows and three scholars, the former to be chosen in the first instance by Griffith Wynn and afterwards by the college from among Gwyn scholars or from Friars or Ruthin school, the latter by Wynn and his heirs in consultation with the masters of Friars and Ruthin, failing
GWYNN, EIRWEN MEIRIONA (1916 - 2007), scientist, educator and author Bangor to do research on the behaviour of X-rays, and in 1942 she became the first woman to receive a PhD in physics at the College. The foundations of her character - a multi-talented, determined, energetic, principled woman - were in place. She also possessed considerable beauty, and in Bangor found her life partner, Harri Gwynn Jones (1913-1985). In his obituary of Eirwen, Meic Stephens describes
GWYNN, HARRI (1913 - 1985), writer and broadcaster Harri Gwynn was born at 63, Maryland Road, Wood Green, north London, on 14 February 1913, son of Hugh Jones (d. 1916), who worked as a letter-sorter on the mail train between London and Holyhead, and his wife Elizabeth (Beti) (née Williams), both originally from Penrhyndeudraeth. Following his father's death from a heart condition in December 1916, mother and son moved to Garth Celyn
GWYNNE family Llanelwedd, It would seem that the 'Gwyn' family of Llanelwedd began with a younger son of Rhydderch ap Dafydd Goch Gwyn, of the widespread clan of Glanbran, Llandovery (and other seats); there is a very full account of this clan in Old Wales (ed. W. R. Williams), vols. ii and iii (index); and pedigrees, not always consistent, are printed in Theophilus Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, 3rd ed., iii
GWYNNE family Garth, Maes-llech, Llanlleonfel See the pedigrees in Theophilus Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, 3rd ed., ii, 238-40, iv, 269-70. This family, though not originally belonging to the Glanbrân clan (see Gwynne of Llanelwedd), became later connected with it. The surname ' Gwyn ' first appears in the Garth family c. 1545. A REES GWYNNE of Garth was coroner of Brecknock in the 17th century, and had a son MARMADUKE GWYNNE
GWYNNE, SACKVILLE (c. 1751 - 1794) knowledge, a daughter of one of the Glanbrân tenants, and accordingly parts of the estate were left (1774) to his younger brother. His wife died in 1787; he re-married in 1793, but died before the birth of a daughter in August 1794. He was noted as a lover of the harp. Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) affirms that Gwynne was one of the finest players of his day upon the triple harp. He was also a patron of
HALL, AUGUSTA (Lady Llanover), (Gwenynen Gwent; 1802 - 1896), patron of Welsh culture and inventor of the Welsh national costume did not prevent her from favouring Welsh-speakers as servants, insisting on Welsh-language services in Llanover church and having Welsh taught in the two schools in Llanover. In order to further Welsh education she patronised the Welsh Collegiate Institution at Llandovery from its foundation in 1847, she assisted Evan Jones (Ieuan Gwynedd) in establishing the women's journal Y Gymraes, and she

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