Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRUFFYDD, WILLIAM JOHN (1881 - 1954), scholar, poet, critic and editor dishonesty, which accounts to some extent for the deep respect and affection in which he was held by his friends, and indeed by all who knew him. He married Gwenda, daughter of John Evans, minister, of Abercarn, in 1909. They had separated several years before his death. They had one son. Gruffydd died 29 September 1954.
GWYN, FRANCIS (1648? - 1734), politician 1727 he sat in fifteen parliaments representing several constituencies, including Cardiff, 1685-7. A Tory and an intimate friend of Rochester, he held important offices and was secretary at war, 1713-14. He was appointed chamberlain of Brecon, 15 October 1681. By his marriage with Margaret, third daughter of Edmund Prideaux, he acquired the Ford Abbey estates in Devon. He died at Ford Abbey 2 June
GWYNFARDD BRYCHEINIOG (fl. c. 1180), poet complete independence from Canterbury; such, too, in all probability had been the desire which had moved Rhygyfarch to write his ' Buchedd Ddewi ' (c. 1090, according to Wade-Evans); probably Gwynfardd Brycheiniog was similarly moved to write his poem to Saint David. Certain incidents occur both in the 'Life' and in the poem, but some material is found in the latter which is not, apparently, included in
GWYNN, EIRWEN MEIRIONA (1916 - 2007), scientist, educator and author language issues for over 75 years. In 1999 she appeared for the last time, with her friend and fellow-campaigner Dr Meredydd Evans, before the Aberystwyth Magistrates for refusing to pay her television license in protest against the low standard of broadcasting in the Welsh language. She also promoted Welsh culture as a member of the Court of the National Library, the Central Advisory Council for
GWYNN, HARRI (1913 - 1985), writer and broadcaster , Penrhyndeudraeth in 1917. After time at the village school, Harri won a scholarship to Barmouth County School in 1924, where he was introduced to fine art and the work of the English Georgian poets by his headteacher, Edmund D. Jones, an admirer of John Ruskin, and attended evening classes on poetry in Penrhyndeudraeth under the tutelage of Robert Williams Parry. In 1930, a year early, he sat the examination
GWYNNE family Garth, Maes-llech, Llanlleonfel in 1711, was sheriff ofRadnorshire in 1718, and married Sarah, daughter of Daniel Evans of Peterwell (Meyrick, Cardiganshire, 2nd ed., 222). According to Jackson, Life of Charles Wesley, i, 514, she was one of six sisters, each of whom had £30,000. She and her husband certainly lived in great state at Garth, keeping a chaplain and twenty servants, and seldom having fewer than ten to fifteen guests
HALL, AUGUSTA (Lady Llanover), (Gwenynen Gwent; 1802 - 1896), patron of Welsh culture and inventor of the Welsh national costume financially supported Daniel Silvan Evans when he was preparing his multi-volume dictionary. Combining ardent Protestantism with a love of Welsh, she endowed two Calvinist Methodist churches, Capel Rhyd-y-meirch and Aber-carn, where services were to be conducted in Welsh, but with a liturgy based upon the Book of Common Prayer. Her belief in temperance led her to convert inns and pubs in the area into
HALL, BENJAMIN (1802 - 1867) with Maria Jane Williams, Aber-pergwm and Brinley Richards in a collection of Welsh airs. She gave financial assistance to D. Silvan Evans in connection with his dictionary. Her other main interests were temperance work and a militant protestantism. She endowed two Calvinistic Methodist churches, Capel Rhyd-y-meirch and Aber-carn, where services were to be conducted in Welsh, but with a liturgy based
HAM, PETER WILLIAM (1947 - 1975), musician and songwriter manager Bill Collins, who in 1966 moved them into his house in North London. Two years of gigging, songwriting and recording demos in penurious conditions (and a personnel change, with Liverpudlian Tom Evans replacing Jenkins) paid off when The Iveys were signed by the Beatles' record label, Apple, in July 1968. Pete's early compositions, which had caught the ear of Paul McCartney, were a factor in
HANMER family Hanmer, Bettisfield, Fens, Halton, Pentre-pant, surname Hanmer. One of these, MEREDITH HANMER (1543 - 1604), vicar of Hanmer (1574-84), with subsequent English and Irish preferments, acquired some fame as an ecclesiastical historian and a controversialist who entered the lists with the Jesuit Edmund Campion (1540 - 1581) - his life is given in D.N.B. Bishop Hanmer was born at Pentre-pant and christened at Selattyn (1 February 1575), inherited the
HARLEY family (earls of Oxford and Mortimer), Brampton Bryan, Wigmore , for the Mortimers were from very early times in possession of Maelienydd and Elfael, the main components of that shire. In 1399, we find BRIAN DE HARLEY, Sir Robert's son (who had fought at Créci) acting as ' custos ' of Dinas and Blaenllyfni in Brecknock, during the minority and absence of Edmund de Mortimer (1391 - 1425). The temporary forfeiture of the Mortimer lands, and still more their
HARRIES, ISAAC HARDING (d. c. 1868), Independent minister, and editor of periodicals The date and place of his birth are uncertain, but he began preaching at Beaufort in Brecknock, went to the Neuadd-lwyd Academy, and was minister at Tal-y-sarn, Caernarfonshire, 1831-5. At this period he delivered eloquent addresses on behalf of the Bible Society; one of these was published, together with Sylwedd Pregeth under the same cover, at Caernarvon (72 pp. printed by Peter Evans). Early

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