Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GEOFFREY (1090? - 1155), bishop of St Asaph and chronicler other sources. The work also shows the influence of the various romances and Geoffrey has made use of local traditions. The Historia immediately became widely popular; there are about 200 extant manuscripts, nearly fifty of them written in the 12th century, but all the manuscripts have not yet been fully collated. The Historia brought king Arthur into a new and greater fame, and the 'matter of Britain
GIBBS, REGINALD ARTHUR (1872 - 1938), shipowner (one of four brothers, all prominent in Cardiff shipping circles), and Rugby footballer
GILDAS (fl. 6th cent), monk victory (won by Arthur, according to credible testimony) with the exception of some small battles against the Saxons and some civil strife amongst the Britons themselves. Badon was almost the last big slaughter of the strangers. This shows that some fighting with them continued, but over forty years of peace had been secured. The number of those who could remember the victories of Emrys and Arthur was
GLYNNE family remained until 23 May 1648. He was elected M.P. for Caernarvonshire, 1654-5, and April-December 1660. With keen political foresight he resigned his legal offices, and lost no time in favouring the return of the monarchy. He was knighted 16 November 1660, and soon afterwards made prime serjeant. He married (1) Francis, daughter of Arthur Squib, and (2) Anne, daughter of John Manning. He owned estates at
GORE, WILLIAM GEORGE ARTHUR ORMSBY - see ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM GEORGE ARTHUR
GOULD, ARTHUR JOSEPH (1864 - 1919), Rugby footballer
GREEN, BEATRICE (1894 - 1927), political activist Beatrice Green was born on 1 October 1894 at Abertillery, Monmouthshire, the seventh of eight children of William and Mary Dykes. Her father was a tin worker who became a miner when she was 5 years old. One of her brothers, John Arthur Dykes, was killed in a roof fall in Rose Heyworth colliery, Abertillery in 1910, aged 19. Beatrice's introduction to public life came through the Ebenezer Baptist
GRENFELL family, Swansea industrialists and five daughters: Madelina Georgina (1826 - 1903), Pascoe Du Pre (1828 - 1896), St. Leger Murray (1830 - 1860), Arthur Riversdale (1831 - 1895), Gertrude Fanny (1834 - 1880), Elizabeth Mary (1836 - 1894), Francis Wallace (1841 - 1925), Katherine Charlotte (1843 - 1906), Eleanor Catherine (1845 - 1928). MADELINA married Griffith Llewellvn (1802 - 1888) at Baglan Hall in 1850. Llewellyn became rich
GRIFFITH family PENRHYN, presence of a William Griffith as member of Edward IV's council on 8 August 1482. (Gairdner, op. cit., 338-9.) Under Henry VII he continued to hold the chamberlainship of North Wales until 1490 when he was replaced by Sir Richard Pole (Davies, Conway and Menai Ferries, 48, 68.) He was knighted when Arthur was created prince of Wales in 1489 and he continued to serve on a number of North Wales commissions
GRIFFITH, ROBERT ARTHUR (Elphin; 1860 - 1936), author and lawyer
GRIFFITHS, EZER (1888 - 1962), physicist (1918; 2nd ed., 1925; 3rd ed., 1947); Pyrometers (1926); Refrigeration principles and practice (1951), and many scientific papers in his field. His brothers included Edgar A. Griffiths, a physicist with the South African government, Jenkin Arthur Griffiths, the editor of the Colliery Guardian, and Roosevelt Griffiths, a lecturer in metallurgy at the University College, Swansea.
GWRTHEYRN that of ' Artorius' (Arthur). Gwrtheyrn bears a Celtic name - but his father and grandfather bore Latin names. And so with Cunedda. All this shows the admixture of blood and tradition which characterized the men who became prominent in Wales after the departure of the Romans.

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