Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRIFFITHS, GRIFFITH PENNAR (1860 - 1918), Congregational minister kept by Rees Jenkin Jones with the intention of proceeding afterwards to one of the colleges of his denomination, but was unable to carry out his intention. He was ordairned at Merthyr Vale, Glamorganshire, in 1884 and moved to Pentre Esyllt, near Swansea, in 1887, there to spend the remainder of his days. He soon gained a reputation as an eloquent preacher. He had a clear voice and an easy delivery
GRIFFITHS, JOHN POWELL (1875 - 1944), minister (Baptist) and schoolmaster Hebrew. A year after graduating Powell Griffiths was ordained minister of Painscastle and Llandeilo, Radnorshire, both English-language Baptist churches. He moved to become minister in Mount Pleasant English Baptist church, Ponciau, Wrexham, in 1913, remaining there until his death in 1944. Lilian Jones, the wife he married in 1917, died after only two years of marriage. He never remarried but
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, PHILIP JONES (1936 - 2008), photographer Philip Jones Griffiths was born in Rhuddlan on 18 February 1936. His father Joseph Griffiths (1903-1962) managed the local London Midland & Scottish Railways Freight Service, and his mother Catherine, (1905?-1973) from whom the 'Jones' was acquired, was a midwife. He had two younger brothers, Penri Jones Griffiths (born 1938) and Gareth Jones Griffiths (born 1944). Fluent in Welsh, Philip was
GRIFFITHS, SAMUEL (1783 - 1860), Independent minister Parch. Morgan Jones, Trelech, 1836; Gwaedd yng Nghymru, 1853; and a number of catechisms for the Sunday school. He rendered service to a large area as unpaid legal adviser and arbitrator. He died 4 July 1860 at the age of seventy-seven, and was buried at Bwlch-y-groes. William Griffiths (1788 - 1861), Calvinistic Methodist minister of Burry Green, Gower, was his brother.
GRIFFITHS, THOMAS (1645 - 1725) Delaware, first minister of the Welsh Tract Baptist church He was born at Llanfyrnach, Pembrokeshire, in 1645, but is described with Elizabeth, his wife, as 'of Melinau ' in the roll of members of Rhydwilym church in 1689. There is no evidence in the church register either that he was baptized there, as some reports say, in 1677, or that he became one of the ordained assistants of William Jones (died c. 1700), but it is known that it was he who led the
GRIFFITHS, VAVASOR (d. 1741), Independent minister and tutor We possess very few verifiable details of his life. The earliest definite date is 1711, when he was at the academy kept by Samuel Jones (died 1719) at Tewkesbury; a letter by the future archbishop Secker (Gibbons, Memoirs of Isaac Watts, 346), speaks highly of Griffiths's linguistic attainments, adding 'he seems to be not much under 40. Secker may well have over-estimated Griffiths's age; but on
GRIFFITHS, WINIFRED MAIR (1916 - 1996), minister (Cong) and headmistress grandfathers had married a young woman from Dolannog, named Ann Thomas - who came to be known as Ann Griffiths, the hymn writer. Mair's mother was the daughter of the Reverend and Mrs. R. O. Jones, the minister of the Congregational Churches at Moreia, Bedlinog, and Graig. Mair was educated at the Cardiff Secondary School, and the University College of South Wales and Monmouth, where she graduated B.A. with
GRIST, IAN (1938 - 2002), Conservative politician by the Labour candidate. In the general election of 1992, as widely anticipated even by himself, he lost the seat to the Labour candidate Jon Owen Jones - part of the electoral shrivelling of the Conservative Party in Wales. Tall, genial and generally very popular, Ian Grist was a PPS, 1979-81, to Nicholas Edwards, the Secretary of State for Wales, but he resigned after two years in the post. He
GROSSMAN, YEHUDIT ANASTASIA (1919 - 2011), Jewish patriot and author in April 1942 she became a member of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), the female branch of the British armed forces, from which she was released in May 1946. Since February of the same year she had enrolled on a course in English Literature at Mount Carmel College, Haifa, an institution run by the Army Education Corps. Here she met Leonard (Jonah) Jones (1919-2004), a conscientious objector
GRUFFUDD ab ADDA ap DAFYDD (fl. 1340-1370), poet and prose writer He was a contemporary and friend of Dafydd ap Gwilym, who composed a marwnad upon him. From this poem we gather that he was a native of Powys Wenwynwyn and was killed by a friend's sword at Dolgelley, where he lies buried. For his poetry see Jones and Lewis, Mynegai, and Brogyntyn MS. 2 in the National Library of Wales. Rhetorical compositions attributed to him and entitled ' Breuddwyd Gruffudd
GRUFFUDD ap DAFYDD ap HYWEL (fl. 1480-1520), poet His work is preserved in NLW MS 832E, NLW MS 3487E, NLW MS 9166B; Cwrtmawr MS 200B, Cwrtmawr MS 448A; B.M. MS. 14985; Swansea MS. 1. See also Mynegai (Jones and Lewis).

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