Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRIFFITH, SIDNEY (d. 1752), Methodist and associate of Howel Harris Griffith ' herself failed in June to reconcile Harris with Rowland and Howell Davies. By September she was becoming a financial burden upon Harris; her husband gave her no maintenance, and Harris had to support her, pay for her son's education, and stand surety for her. By the beginning of 1752, Mrs. Griffith's health had gravely deteriorated; Harris took her up to London and handed her over to her
GRIFFITH family Garn, Plasnewydd, of this family were poets, viz. Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan (died 1532), and his son Gruffydd ap Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan (c. 1485 - 1553); the father lived at Llannerch, in the township of Llewenni, Denbighshire, a house afterwards associated with the Davies family, of Llannerch and Gwysaney. A ' Cowydd i'r Crud ' by him is in NLW MS 3048D. T. A. Glenn, who could not (in 1934) accept some of the
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 Nantglyn (Robert Davies, 1769 - 1835) on many occasions and was awarded a silver medal as early as 1827 for a translation of Goldsmith's 'Deserted Village,' and composed the englynion which appear on the tombstone of Owen Williams of Waun-fawr (1790 - 1874). In 1890 the government made him an award of £200. He died 30 October 1894.
GRIFFITH, GRIFFITH WYNNE (1883 - 1967), minister (Presb.) and author Born 4 February 1883 in Brynteci, Llandyfrydog, Anglesey, son of John and Judith Griffith. He worked on his father's farm until he was 18 years old when he went to the school kept by Cynffig Davies in Menai Bridge, to prepare himself for the ministry. He was accepted as a candidate for the ministry by the Anglesey Presbytery in 1903. He was educated in the University College Bangor (where he
GRIFFITH, HUW WYNNE (1915 - 1993), minister (Presb) and a prominent ecumenical leader Barn where he often wrote on controversial subjects. He wrote with sensitivity and respect, preparing his articles carefully. He prepared a commentary for Sunday schools on the Gospel of Mark in 1953, a book of stories for children, Gyda'r Iesu (1961), and his Davies Lecture to the General Assembly of the Connexion, on 'C F Andrews, Friend of Mahatma Gandhi and a Pioneer of missionary work' was
GRIFFITH, RICHARD (Carneddog; 1861 - 1947), poet, writer, and journalist Born 26 October 1861, son of Morris and Mary Griffith in Carneddi, a small mountain farm in the parish of Nantmor, Caernarfonshire, and not far from Beddgelert. ' Carneddog ' spent the whole of his life up to 1945 (when he and his wife went to live with their son in Hinckley, Leicestershire) in Carneddi, where his ancestors had lived for several generations. He was educated in local schools at
GRIFFITH, RICHARD DAVIES (1813 - 1856), Wesleyan missionary and linguist
GRIFFITH, ROBERT (1847 - 1909), musician home of Idris Vychan who taught him to play the harp and to sing 'pennillion'. His greatest contribution to the literature of music was his Cerdd Dannau, a treatise on harp music and harpists, published in 1913, two years after his death; his wife, Isabella Davies, niece of Robert Thomas (Ap Vychan, 1809 - 1880,), gave him much help in compiling the material for his work. He died 8 October 1909 and
GRIFFITH, Sir SAMUEL WALKER (1845 - 1920), judge Born at Merthyr Tydfil 21 June 1845, the son of Edward Griffith, minister of the English Independent church there (1842-5), and Mary, daughter of Peter Walker of Swansea. Sailing to Australia (1854) with his family, Edward Griffith later became pastor of the Congregational church in Ipswich, near Brisbane. After a brilliant career at the university of Sydney, Samuel Griffith was admitted, in 1867
GRIFFITH, WILLIAM (1719 - 1782), farmer of Drws-y-coed Uchaf, at the head of Nantlle Vale, from 1744 till his death; known to Goronwy Owen, to Margaret Davies, of Coedcae-du, and to David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri as a man of literary tastes, is also noteworthy because his house was the centre of the Moravian mission in Northwest Wales from 1768 to 1776 - see under David Williams (1702 - 1779), David Mathias, and John Morgan (1743
GRIFFITH, WILLIAM (1801 - 1881), Independent minister and hymn-writer Bristol Moravian chapel, and the bride's aunt, Mary Griffith, a Moravian 'labouress,' came to live with the married pair at Holyhead, where she died in 1847. Mrs. Griffith died 21 March 1865. Their son, Sir John Purser Griffith, is separately noticed.

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