Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GIBBS, SION (fl. 1643), poet In NLW MS 719B: Barddoniaeth, 42, there is an englyn by him to Dr. John Davies, Mallwyd, written at Ludlow 30 January 1642-3, with John Davies's answer to him on the same page. See also B.M. MS. 14886, 61.
GIBSON, JOHN (1790 - 1866), sculptor . The N.L.W. has three manuscript volumes containing a large number of his autograph letters and about a hundred original sketches by him. Editorial note 2021: John Gibson's partner in Rome was the artist Penry Williams. Editorial note 2023: A plaque on Tŷ Capel Fforddlas, Glan Conwy, notes that John Gibson was born there. BENJAMIN GIBSON (1811 - 1851), classical scholar Scholarship and Languages John
GIBSON, Sir JOHN (1841 - 1915), journalist
GIFFORD, ISABELLA (c. 1825 - 1891), botanist and algologist Isabella Gifford was born in south Wales (Swansea according to one source, Defynnog, Breconshire, according to other sources) around 1825. She was the daughter of George St John Gifford (died 1869), who served with Sir John Moore in the battle of A Coruña in 1809, and his wife Isabella (died 1891), who were married in 1824. Her mother, Isabella, was the daughter of the industrialist John Christie
GILDAS (fl. 6th cent), monk Columban (Columbanus) in a letter to pope Gregory, c. 600. For his contribution to the second wave of Irish saints see Hugh Williams, Gildas, 416; see also Sir John Lloyd's considered opinion of him generally (A History of Wales, 134-43).
GILLHAM, MARY ELEANOR (1921 - 2013), naturalist and educator Mary Gillham was born in Ealing on 26 November 1921, the daughter of wood- and metal-work teacher Charles Thomas Gillham (1890-1974) and professional dressmaker Edith Gertrude (née Husband, 1887-1975) and sister to John Charles Gillham (1917-2009). Despite living within London the family were keen campers and would regularly travel out into the countryside on weekends and holidays. This, with
GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS (1146? - 1223), archdeacon of Brecon and mediaeval Latin writer king's service, and he acted as mediator between the court and the lord Rhys ap Gruffydd. In 1185, because of his relationship to the conquerors of Ireland - his mother's brothers and half-brothers and his own brothers - he was appointed to accompany prince John to Ireland, and he turned this task to good account by collecting materials for his Expugnatio Hibernica and Topographia Hibernica. In 1188 he
GITTINS, CHARLES EDWARD (1908 - 1970), educationalist ' and that 'Society owes it equally to all its members'. He was made C.B.E. in 1968. He married on 28 December 1934, Margaret Anne, daughter of John Lloyd Davies and Eliza Mary (née Wheale), in Llanfaredd church, Radnorshire, and they had a son and daughter. He died as the result of an accident during a fishing trip at Oxwich Bay on 6 August 1970, and was cremated following a funeral service at St
GLASCOTT, CRADOCK (1743 - 1831), Evangelical cleric who also became a minister in lady Huntingdon's connexion. He was the son of Thomas Glascott of Cardiff; and Charles Wesley (and perhaps John Wesley and Whitefield) had stayed at his home - 'I lodged at Mr. Glascott's' (Charles Wesley, Journal, i, 255, 6 November 1740). In the Calvinistic controversy (1740-1) the Cardiff Society sided with Wesley. Cradock went to Jesus College, Oxford (Foster
GLYN family Glynllifon, , bankers. Thomas's son, Sir WILLIAM GLYN (knighted in Dublin in 1606 for military services in Ireland) was highly esteemed in the county, and was reckoned a man of high honour and integrity. He married Jane, the daughter of John Griffith of Cefnamwlch, and by her he had six sons and five daughters; he died in 1620. His successor at Glynllifon was THOMAS GLYN (three times M.P. for Caernarvonshire). In the
GLYN, JOHN, dean of Bangor - see GLYN, WILLIAM
GLYN, WILLIAM (1504 - 1558), bishop Born in 1504, son of John Glyn of Heneglwys, Anglesey, Glyn was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge (B.A. 1527, M.A. 1530, B.D. 1538, D.D. 1554); he became Fellow of Queens ', 1530; was one of original Fellows of Trinity, 1546; and was vice-master of Trinity, 1546-51. Like his friend and contemporary, Thomas Thirlby (see D.N.B.), he seems to have accepted the religious changes of Henry VIII's

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