Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GREY, THOMAS (1733 - 1810), Independent minister Blaenplwyf estate. Their only daughter Letitia was born about 1767. She married John Hughes (1760 - 1813), vicar of Nantcwnlle and Llanddeiniol; William Gray Hughes, vicar of Mathry, a young clergyman of great promise who died aged thirty-two, in 1824 was one of their children. Thomas Grey co-operated with Daniel Rowland, Llangeitho, and preached regularly at Llangeitho and at other Calvinistic Methodist
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 (1792 or 1794 - 1873), Independent minister of Ebenezer, Deiniolen (of which he was the first minister, 1822-32) and Seilo, Portdinorwic, of which he was minister until 1851. He died 27 February 1873 and was buried in Bethel cemetery. In 1849 his eldest son, DAVID GRIFFITH (1823 - 1913), became joint minister with him of Seilo and Bethel; he was born in 1823 at Bryn, Llanfair-is-gaer, and was educated by the Rev. Griffith Hughes of Cefn
GRIFFITH, GWILYM WYNNE (1914 - 1989), physician and Medical Officer of Health , his translation of Hanes Môn yn y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg (1927), written by his aunt, Elizabeth Ann Williams. Gwilym Wynne Griffith married Gwyneth Rees Hughes of Liverpool in 1939 and they had 3 children. He died on April 16 1989 and is buried in the church of Llangwyfan on Anglesey.
GRIFFITH, JOHN OWEN (Ioan Arfon; 1828 - 1881), poet and critic verse-writer, received the same welcome. Ioan Arfon was accounted a considerable geologist in his day and published in 1864 a book on the subject, Traethawd Ymarferol ar Lechfeini Sir Gaernarvon. He and his friends, Alfardd (John James Hughes) and Gwilym Allt-wen, were members of the first committee set up by the North Wales Quarrymen's Union and attended its inaugural meeting, 21 March 1874. Alfardd
GRIFFITH, WILLIAM JOHN (1875 - 1931), writer of short stories a number of articles. In 1938 the stories, edited by T. Rowland Hughes, were published under the title Storïau'r Henllys Fawr (Gwasg Aberystwyth). His stories, though hilarious, are not merely comic, for they are full of rural atmosphere and are based on the philosophy and observation of the countryman.
GRIFFITHS, ANN (1776 - 1805), hymn-writer Pont Robert in 1797 and came into contact with John Hughes (1775 - 1854), the teacher and preacher, with whom she corresponded extensively. She married Thomas Griffiths (1779 - 8 April 1808), a Meifod farmer, on 10 October 1804 and died in August 1805 after the birth of her child; she was buried at Llanfihangel, 12 August. She used to recite her hymns to her maid, Ruth Evans, who treasured them in
GRIFFITHS, EVAN (1778 - 1839), Calvinistic Methodist minister John Hughes of Pontrobert, 1840.
GRIFFITHS, JAMES (JEREMIAH) (1890 - 1975), Labour politician and cabinet minister a seat in the Labour cabinet, serving until March 1966, although now in his mid-seventies. His successor in the office was Cledwyn Hughes. In 1969 Griffiths published a somewhat guarded volume of reminiscences Pages from Memory. During the late 1960s, although increasingly unwell, he was cajoled by Harold Wilson not to retire from parliament and thus cause yet another risky by-election in a south
GRIFFITHS, PETER HUGHES (1871 - 1937), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author
HARRIS, HOWELL (1714 - 1773), religious reformer Thomas Roberts of Trevecka (at the National Library of Wales). She seems to have been good-hearted and impulsive, and to have become increasingly irked by the strict regime at Trevecka after the death of her father. On 10 May 1782 she was married at Talgarth to Charles Prichard, surgeon, of Brecon; the witnesses were her two cousins Samuel Hughes and Elizabeth Robinson (see Harris, Thomas); the entry
HARRIS, JOSEPH (1704 - 1764), Assay-master at the Mint member of the Cymmrodorion Society. He died 26 September 1764; he was buried in the Tower. His wife (died May 1763) was Anne, daughter and co-heiress of his former neighbour Thomas Jones of Tredustan. Their daughter, ANNA MARIA HARRIS, married SAMUEL HUGHES (he was one of the witnesses of the marriage of Elizabeth, Howel Harris's daughter); to her was left the property of her uncle Thomas Harris; and

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