Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRYFFYTH, JASPER (d. 1614), cleric, warden of Ruthin hospital, chaplain to archbishop Bancroft, collector of manuscripts proved 28 May, and he was buried in the chancel of Hinckley parish church, 25 May. He names his wife, Mary, his son Bartholomew, and his daughters Elizabeth, Marye, and Anne, with a suggestion that the children were minors. His wife was a daughter of John Roberts of Park, Llanfrothen. In a letter to Sir Robert Cotton, 1613, Jasper Gryffyth lists forty Latin manuscripts in his possession, and other
GUEST family, iron-masters, coal owners, etc. SIR JOSIAH JOHN GUEST (1785 - 1852), iron-master, colliery proprietor and M.P. Business and Industry Politics, Government and Political Movements Son of THOMAS GUEST (died 1807), iron-master, Dowlais, and grandson of JOHN GUEST (1722 - 1785), who came from Broseley, Salop, to manage the small iron-works at Dowlais in 1759, and by 1782 had obtained some shares in the Dowlais Iron Company. Thomas
GUEST, LADY CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH (1812 - 1895), translator, businesswoman and collector John Guest, twenty-one year old Lady Charlotte married him in 1833. He was a widower and ran the vast Dowlais Iron Company that was fast becoming the largest ironworks in the world, employing about 7,000 workers. Lady Charlotte had disliked her step-father, the Reverend Peter Pegus, and viewed her move to Wales as a providential escape. She interested herself in the business, took a keen and active
GWEN ferch ELLIS (c. 1552 - 1594), first victim of execution for witchcraft in Wales third husband, John ap Morrice of Betws-yn-Rhos. Gwen is identified in the transcript of her trial as his 'supposed wife'. Gwen ferch Ellis was a cloth spinner, who was well-known in the community for practising the art of healing using charms, 'salves, drinke and plasters', for which people compensated her with wool, corn, butter, and other items which constituted her main source of income
GWENWYNWYN (d. 1216), lord of Powys forces which had recurrently in the past kept Powys from achieving anything more than a fleeting pre-eminence among the native dynasties of Wales. Two attacks on marcher territory between the Wye and the Severn were disastrous for him, and on the second occasion, in 1208, he was deprived by king John of all his lands. Though restored by John in 1210, continuous pressure from Llywelyn the Great forced
GWILYM TEW (fl. c. 1460-1480), one of the bards of Glamorgan ; this explains why he wrote an awdl enghreifftiol (a 'pattern' or 'exemplifying' awdl), wherein he uses measures that were not acknowledged by the old teachers, the 'ofer fesurau' ('false measures') as they were described. And that is the awdl which John David Rhys includes in his Grammar (1592) as an exemplar of the odes of the 'first age.' It was not with bardic verse alone that Gwilym Tew concerned
GWINNETT, BUTTON (1735 - 1777), merchant, landowner and politician Gwinnett is a form of the regional name Gwynedd. Ann Emes's mother was Ann Prise of Glamorgan. The family of her wealthy cousin Barbara Button held extensive lands in Glamorgan, including the manor of Cottrell, which was inherited by Barbara. Barbara Button was Button Gwinnett's godmother. Button's siblings were Anna Marie, Samuel, Thomas, Robert, John and Emilia. The family's Glamorgan connection is
GWYN, JOHN (d. 1574), lawyer, placeman, and educational benefactor Born at Gwydir, Llanrwst, he was the fifth and youngest (or possibly fourth) son of John Wyn ap Meredydd, a direct descendant of Owain Gwynedd. His eldest brother Morys was the father of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir and another, Robert (third son), who built Plas Mawr, Conway, became second husband of Dorothy Williams, grandmother of archbishop John Williams. John Gwyn entered Queens' College
GWYN, JOHN EDWARD ap HUW GWYN (d. 1614), high sheriff of Anglesey - see WYNN
GWYNLLYW (fl. late 5th-early 6th century), saint ,' which are the other main authorities for his legend, are 12th century compositions. A summary version of the ' Life of S. Gwynllyw ' was composed by John of Teignmouth in the mid 14th century. An early 14th century manuscript recently discovered at Gotha, Germany, contains the pedigree of Gwynllyw (see Anal. Boll., lviii, 98). As the eldest of the ten sons of Glywys (the ' Life of S. Gwynllyw ' gives
GWYNN, EIRWEN MEIRIONA (1916 - 2007), scientist, educator and author Eirwen Meiriona St. John Williams was born at 99 Shiel Road, Newsham Park, Liverpool, on 1 December 1916. (A family story tells that 12 December was recorded by her father, in order to avoid a fine for late registration of the birth.) Eirwen was the eldest of the two children of William (St.) John Williams (1886-1957) and his wife Annie (née Williams, 1885-1969). Her brother, Gwilym Gareth (Gari
GWYNN, HARRI (1913 - 1985), writer and broadcaster , Penrhyndeudraeth in 1917. After time at the village school, Harri won a scholarship to Barmouth County School in 1924, where he was introduced to fine art and the work of the English Georgian poets by his headteacher, Edmund D. Jones, an admirer of John Ruskin, and attended evening classes on poetry in Penrhyndeudraeth under the tutelage of Robert Williams Parry. In 1930, a year early, he sat the examination

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