Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRIFFITHS, ROBERT (1824 - 1903), musician Born 21 May 1824 at Carmarthen to parents who moved a year afterwards to Bristol. He was possessed of a good voice and was made precentor in the Sunday school at Broadmead chapel. He joined the Bristol Orpheus Society and the Madrigal Singing Society. On the death of his father he went to London where he became precentor in the Baptist chapel, Islington Green. After hearing John Curwen lecturing
GRIFFITHS, VAVASOR (d. 1741), Independent minister and tutor the other hand the '1698 or 1699' often given as his year of birth raises considerable difficulties - making him, e.g. an ordained minister when he was only sixteen or seventeen. Everything points to his having been a native of Bugeildy parish, Radnorshire; indeed, Maesgwyn may have been the family home. In John Evans's lists, c. 1715, Griffiths's name comes third of the three ministers of the
GRIFFITHS, WILLIAM (1898 - 1962), bookseller 1959. He was a member of the Council of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion for many years and he was elected a member of the Bardic Gorsedd under the name of ' Gwilym Cerdin '. He married Winifred Irene, daughter of John Kent and his wife Sara (née Rogers) in the parish church of Mentmore, Buckinghamshire 23 September 1933 and they had one daughter. He died in a London hospital on 8 October 1962.
GRIFFITHS, WILLIAM (1777 - 1825), Independent minister and teacher Born at Glandŵr, Pembrokeshire, the second son of John Griffiths (1731 - 1811). He was educated at the school of 'one Mr. Foyle,' at his father's school, and at Haverfordwest. He was admitted to the Wrexham Academy, 2 February 1795, and was an assistant there in his last year. He was ordained as joint minister with his father, 23 May 1803(?). He achieved some degree of prominence as a preacher in
GRIST, IAN (1938 - 2002), Conservative politician for Wales, working within the Conservative Research Department, 1970-74. Grist stood as the Conservative candidate for Aberavon against John Morris in the general election of June 1970, and subsequently represented Cardiff North, 1974-83, and, following widespread boundary re-distribution, the much more marginal Cardiff Central, 1983-92. In the general election of June 1987 his majority was halved
GROSSMAN, YEHUDIT ANASTASIA (1919 - 2011), Jewish patriot and author John Petts, founder of the Caseg Press before the war, and his belief (erroneous, in fact) that he had Welsh roots, living in north Wales had been a dream for Jonah Jones. It was to his family home at Wardley, Tyne and Wear, that he and Yehudit turned on landing in Britain, but they spent a month at the cottage of Petts and his second wife, Kusha, in Cwm Pennant, shortly after their return to Britain
GROVE, Sir WILLIAM ROBERT (1811 - 1896), scientist and lawyer Born 11 July 1811 at Swansea, son of John Grove and Anne (formerly Bevan). He entered Brasenose College, Oxford, and graduated B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835. The degree of D.C.L. was conferred upon him in 1875, and that of LL.D., Cambridge, in 1879. In November 1831 he entered Lincoln's Inn, being called to the Bar in November 1835. His natural bent was towards science, and he won considerable repute for
GRUFFUDD AP LLYWELYN (d. 1064), king of Gwynedd 1039-1064 and overlord of all the Welsh that Gruffudd became the 'under-king' of King Edward, although the chronicle of John of Worcester merely notes that the two men were reconciled. When Ælfgar was again exiled in 1058 he immediately fled to Gruffudd and the allies were joined by the Norse crown prince Magnus Haraldsson who led a fleet recruited from the Hebrides, Orkneys and Dublin. Some unidentified area of England was attacked, but
GRUFFUDD ap NICOLAS (fl. 1415-1460), esquire and a leading figure in the local administration of the principality of South Wales in the middle of the 15th century Dynevor in 1425. He was sheriff of Carmarthenshire in 1436. With Edmund Beaufort, parts of the lands of Phillip Clement were demised to him in 1437. He was a power to be feared in West Wales in 1438, according to the evidence of Margaret Malefant in a petition to Parliament. He was farmer of the lordship of Dynevor in 1439, and his son JOHN shared the office with him. In that same year we find his son
GRUFFUDD HAFREN (fl. c. 1600), poet (presumably of Montgomeryshire) of whose work many examples remain in manuscripts. These include poems to various members of the families of Gogerddan (Llanstephan MS 118 (376)), Llyweni (NLW MS 6494D (29, 44), NLW MS 6495D (64), NLW MS 6496C (281b)) apparently in the poet's own handwriting), and Henllys in Pembrokeshire (Llanstephan MS 133 (773)). He wrote two cywyddau in praise of Dr. John
GRUFFYDD ap GWENWYNWYN (d. 1286), lord of Upper Powys lordship of the family lands in Arwystli, Cyfeiliog, Mawddwy, Caereinion, Y Tair Swydd, and Upper Mochnant. Sometime before this decisive moment in his career, he had married Hawise, daughter of John Lestrange of Knockin. Steadfast in his loyalty to the Crown during the first decade of Llywelyn II's rise to power, he suffered a renewed loss of patrimony and a second exile in 1257. With evident reluctance
GRUFFYDD ap IEUAN ap LLYWELYN FYCHAN (c. 1485 - 1553), bard and member of a Welsh landed family Richard ap Howel of Mostyn; by this marriage he was the father of Alice 'ferch Gruffydd ap Ieuan,' a poetess. It was by his second marriage, with Alice, daughter of John Owen of Llansantffraid, that he became the ancestor of the Griffith family of Garn and Plasnewydd. For some of the family connections see the articles in this dictionary on Davies (of Llannerch), and Davies-Cooke (of Gwysaney) and

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