Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GREY, THOMAS (1733 - 1810), Independent minister name of John Grey. He became a member of the Congregational church at Tir Dwncyn or Mynydd-bach, Llangyfelach, and was encouraged to prepare for the ministry. On 3 October 1757 he entered the Academy kept by David Jardine at Abergavenny. Grants were made to him from the Congregational fund in January 1758 and 1759. He was granted a licence as a nonconformist preacher by the Cardiganshire court of
GRIFFITH, SIDNEY (d. 1752), Methodist and associate of Howel Harris become bankrupt and had beaten her and turned her out of the house for refusing to give up to him some of her capital. Harris would have had her stay at Trevecka, but by that time Mrs. George Whitefield had poisoned Mrs. Harris's mind against her, so she had to start northward again; further, some of the Methodist exhorters had begun tattling, notably as she claimed prophetic powers and sought to
GRIFFITH family PENRHYN, marriage of Isabel de Pilkington whose daughter by Thomas de Lathom, her first husband, brought Lathom and Knowsley to the Stanleys. (Dwnn, Visitations, ii, 155; Penrhyn MSS. 1-4, 7-9, 13; G.E.C., Complete Peerage, iv, 205 n. c.; D.N.B., liv., 75.) He married (2) Gwenllian, daughter of Iorwerth ap David; ROBERT, his eldest son by this marriage, was the ancestor of the family of Griffith of Plasnewydd
GRIFFITH family Carreg-lwyd, . in 1627. In turn, he became chancellor of the dioceses of Bangor and S. Asaph, master of the rolls (in Wales), and in 1631 was appointed a master in chancery. He married Mary (died 1645), daughter of John Owen, bishop of Bangor, and died of the plague on 17 October 1648. His youngest brother was George Griffith (1601 - 1666), bishop of St Asaph.
GRIFFITH(S), DAVID (1726 - 1816), cleric and schoolmaster As master of the grammar-school attached to Christ College, Brecon, he taught a group of distinguished men: Thomas Coke, Edward Davies ('Celtic Davies'), John Jones of Llandovery (the Greek lexicographer), Theophilus Jones, David Price (the Orientalist), and John Hughes of Brecon, who are all noticed in the present work. He was the son of Roger and Gwenllian Griffiths of the parish of S. Davids
GRIFFITH, DAVID (Clwydfardd; 1800 - 1894), eisteddfodic bard and arch-druid
GRIFFITH, DAVID (1841 - 1910), schoolmaster, cleric, and diarist
GRIFFITH, DAVID (1792 or 1794 - 1873), Independent minister Born at Rhiwfelen, Abergwili, Carmarthenshire. The family moved to Llanegwad and the son was brought up in Panteg chapel where he began to preach at the age of sixteen. After spending two years at David Peter's school at Carmarthen, he became minister of Bethel, Llanddeiniolen, Caernarfonshire, an offshoot of Pendref, Caernarvon, founded about 1810; there he was ordained in 1815. He married the
GRIFFITH, DAVID (1823 - 1913), Independent minister - see GRIFFITH, DAVID
GRIFFITH, DAVID - see GRIFFITHS, DAVID
GRIFFITH, EDWARD (1832 - 1918), antiquary Born at Barmouth 2 January 1832, son of David and Lowrie Griffith. His parents soon moved to Dolgelley to keep first the 'Crown' and then the 'Angel' inns. He had very little schooling, but learnt much in the two or three years he attended the British School, Dolgelley, where the headmaster was Daniel Evans, who had been promoted to the post when the school opened in 1840. At Dolgelley he
GRIFFITH, GEORGE (1601 - 1666), bishop his 'grounded persuasion' that set prayers were the more edifying and more convenient; in fact, they boxed the whole compass of controversy in the realms of polity and worship. Both sides, as usual, claimed victory; Powell's party published its own version, and the learned Anglican no less than three. Notwithstanding his pugnacious defence of the Anglican position, George Griffith was allowed to

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