Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GABE, RHYS THOMAS (1880 - 1967), rugby player
GALLIE, MENNA PATRICIA (1919 - 1990), writer Menna Gallie was born in the mining village of Ystradgynlais, Powys, the youngest of three daughters of William Thomas Humphreys, a carpenter from north Wales, and his wife Elizabeth (née Rhys Williams, 1885-1974). Although she celebrated her birthday on 17 March 1920, she was in fact born on 18 March, 1919. Her early years in a caring, Welsh-speaking home were strongly influenced by Labour
GAMAGE family Coety, Coity, and litigation. In 1412 William Gamage was involved in an attempt to expel Joan Vernon by force from Coety castle. He died in 1419, and in 1421 his lands were granted to the earl of Worcester during the minority of his heir, Thomas (aged 11 at his father's death) by Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Rodborough. THOMAS GAMAGE, who married Matilda, daughter of Sir Gilbert Dennis, and their son, JOHN, have
GAMBOLD family , 221, 224), we hear of the bishop trying to sell the manuscript to the lexicographer Thomas Richards of Coychurch (1710 - 1790) - the Morrises (i, 114, ii, 150, 233), more suo, disparage the work. Later (c. 1770), the manuscript came into the hands of another lexicographer, John Walters; today it is at the National Library of Wales. William Gambold published in 1727 A Grammar of the Welsh Language
GAPE, REES THOMAS - see GABE, RHYS THOMAS
GEE, THOMAS (1815 - 1898), Calvinistic Methodist minister, journalist, and politician Born at Denbigh, 24 January 1815, son of Thomas Gee, printer, and Mary Foulkes of Hendre'r Wydd. Educated at Grove Park school, Wrexham, and Denbigh grammar school, he was apprenticed to his father at the age of fourteen. When he had completed his apprenticeship he was employed from 1836 to 1838 by the firm of Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, returning to his father's business at Denbigh in 1838
GEORGE, THOMAS (fl. 1829-1840), miniature painter is said to have been born at Fishguard, although the date of his birth is uncertain as the Fishguard parish registers are incomplete for that period. H. M. Vaughan suggested that he was the Thomas, son of Thomas George, mason, and Ann, his wife, who was christened at Fishguard 28 May 1810, but Basil Long suggests that he was born in 1790. The latter date may be considered more likely as George
GEORGE, THOMAS NEVILLE (1904 - 1980), Professor of Geology Neville (TN) George was born on 13 May 1904 at Morriston, Swansea, son of Thomas Rupert George (originally from Port Eynon, Glamorganshire) and Elizabeth (Lizzie, née Evans, both schoolteachers. He attended Pentrepoeth Infants' School in Morriston, Morriston Boys' Elementary School (1910-14), Swansea Municipal Secondary School, later Dynevor School, (1914-19), and Swansea Grammar School (a fee
GIBBON, JAMES MORGAN (1855 - 1932), Independent minister Born at Pont-Seli, Abercŷch, Pembrokeshire, 1855. He was a member of Bryn Seion (Cenarth, Carmarthenshire) church where Evan Herber Evans also was brought up. He was educated at Newcastle Emlyn and the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen (1872-5). In 1875 he was ordained minister of Tre-lech; he joined the English connexion and was minister at Castle Street, Swansea (1880-5); Highgate, London (1885
GIBSON-WATT, JAMES DAVID (BARON GIBSON-WATT), (1918 - 2002), Member of Parliament and public figure between Watkins and Gibson-Watt, but Watkins held the seat with a slightly reduced majority. When J. P. L. Thomas, the First Lord of the Admiralty, was created Viscount Cilcennin in 1956, Gibson-Watt was selected to fight the by-election in the Hereford constituency on 15 February 1956 and he held the seat for the Conservatives with a reduced majority. Within a few months, Gibson-Watt was appointed to
GIFFORD, ISABELLA (c. 1825 - 1891), botanist and algologist : on the subject of maritime discovery (1820), a volume that would certainly have appealed to the young Isabella. Another relation of the Taylor family was the geologist and surveyor Richard Cowling Taylor (1789-1851); and through the marriage of Mary Christie, another sister of Isabella's mother, to the Unitarian and physician Thomas Southwood Smith (1788-1861), a prominent scientist became part of
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

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