Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GWINNETT, BUTTON (1735 - 1777), merchant, landowner and politician Gwinnett is a form of the regional name Gwynedd. Ann Emes's mother was Ann Prise of Glamorgan. The family of her wealthy cousin Barbara Button held extensive lands in Glamorgan, including the manor of Cottrell, which was inherited by Barbara. Barbara Button was Button Gwinnett's godmother. Button's siblings were Anna Marie, Samuel, Thomas, Robert, John and Emilia. The family's Glamorgan connection is
GWRTHEYRN '); ' Gweirnyawn ' from ' Gwern '; ' Tygyryawn ' from ' Tengyr,' ' Tyngyr '; ' Lleissyawn ' from ' Lles.' A name ending in '-iawn' can therefore denote the descendants of the family of some chieftain or the district in which they dwell. For the position of Gwerthrynion between the rivers Wye and Ieithon, see Lloyd, A History of Wales, 253-4. For an attempt to explain the name as an example of 'calumpnia iuste
GWYN, FRANCIS (1648? - 1734), politician 1734. He was succeeded by a son, FRANCIS GWYN, who died childless, and on his decease the Llansannor property passed to ANTHONY GWYN, a cousin. After him the family of Gwyn, a branch of the Herberts, became extinct.
GWYN, JOHN (d. 1574), lawyer, placeman, and educational benefactor family) that in this capacity he was responsible for the arrest of John Dudley, duke of Northumberland, on the failure of his attempt to enthrone lady Jane Grey, cannot be accepted, since the arrest at Cambridge took place two years earlier and under different proctors. In 1550, while still only a B.A., he acquired (apparently by lease from the chapter) the prebendal stall of Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd in
GWYNN, EIRWEN MEIRIONA (1916 - 2007), scientist, educator and author Eirwen Meiriona St. John Williams was born at 99 Shiel Road, Newsham Park, Liverpool, on 1 December 1916. (A family story tells that 12 December was recorded by her father, in order to avoid a fine for late registration of the birth.) Eirwen was the eldest of the two children of William (St.) John Williams (1886-1957) and his wife Annie (née Williams, 1885-1969). Her brother, Gwilym Gareth (Gari
GWYNN, HARRI (fl. c. 1627), poet No details are known of his life. Two examples at least of his work are found in manuscripts, these being elegies to Jenkin Lloyd, heir to the estate of Berth-lwyd, near Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, and to doctor Oliver Lloyd of the same family.
GWYNN, HARRI (1913 - 1985), writer and broadcaster studios in Manchester, several times a week in the early days. The family settled in Bangor in 1962, at Isgaer, Upper Garth Road, where he became a neighbour of Dyfnallt Morgan and others. Another move followed in 1970 - to Tyddyn Rhuddallt, Llanrug - where Harri continued to work for the BBC until 1979. Eirwen described Harri Gwynn's final years as 'a deep chasm'. Parkinson's Disease made it impossible
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 Kilvey
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, ROBERT (JOHNS) (fl. 1568-1591), Roman Catholic missioner and writer He probably came of the Bodvel family and may have been a son of John Wyn ap Hugh (since he subscribes one of his writings ' Robert Johns gwyn '). He entered Corpus Christi College, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1568. About three years later he was persuaded by his neighbour Robert Owen of Plas Du, Caernarfonshire, to absent himself from Anglican worship and to flee overseas. He entered Douai
GWYNNE, SACKVILLE (c. 1751 - 1794) A member of the great clan of Gwynne of Glanbrân, near Llandovery, whose mansion, destroyed by fire, now lies in ruin - for the family, see under Gwynne family of Llanelwedd. According to W. R. Williams (Old Wales, iii, 286-8), he was born c. 1751 - if so, the references to him (in Welsh books) as 'an old gentleman' are rather misleading. He married, in 1772 at Dublin and without his father's

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