Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRIFFITHS, JOHN POWELL (1875 - 1944), minister (Baptist) and schoolmaster colleges were full and competition for entry was fierce. He also taught History and Christian Doctrine when necessary. It is estimated that 140 ministers from different denominations went to him for teaching. Among them were Dr Emlyn Davies, Toronto, Principals Gwilym Bowyer and Tom Ellis Jones, Bangor, and the poet Rhydwen Williams. The name 'Rhos College', which is sometimes used to refer to his school
GRIFFITHS, MORRIS (fl. 1766-1805), Methodist exhorter, afterwards Baptist minister, and hymn-writer Benbro, c. 1765; Defnyddiol Hymnau i Breswylwyry Graig (Trevecka 1779); Llythyr Caredig, 1786; Egwyddorion Difinyddiaeth, 1789 - a kind of confession of faith, each point being followed by a bit of verse, and three hymns; and Dammeg, mewn Dull o Y mddiddan rhwng Credadyn a Mr. Ewyllys-Rhydd a Satan (Trevecka). According to Gwilym Lleyn, he also published Dull o Ymddiddan rhwng Gweinidog yr Efengyl a
GRIFFITHS, PETER HUGHES (1871 - 1937), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author . Ellis. He was a frequent contributor to the Welsh periodicals and a selection of his articles can be found in Llais o Lundain, 1912. He edited Gweithiau Gwilym Teilo (undated) while his Cofiant W. E. Prytherch appeared in 1937, after his death. He died 1 January 1937 and was buried in Salem cemetery, Pen-coed.
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.
GRUFFUDD ab ADDA ap DAFYDD (fl. 1340-1370), poet and prose writer He was a contemporary and friend of Dafydd ap Gwilym, who composed a marwnad upon him. From this poem we gather that he was a native of Powys Wenwynwyn and was killed by a friend's sword at Dolgelley, where he lies buried. For his poetry see Jones and Lewis, Mynegai, and Brogyntyn MS. 2 in the National Library of Wales. Rhetorical compositions attributed to him and entitled ' Breuddwyd Gruffudd
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 Owen Tudor. It is, therefore, impossible to accept the reports that he was mortally wounded either at the battle of Wakefield, 1460, or at Mortimer's Cross, 1461. His praises were sung by Dafydd ab Edmwnd, Hywel ap Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Rhys, Rhys Llwyd ap Rhys ap Rhicert, Gwilym ap Ieuan Hen, and Lewis Glyn Cothi. It is probable that the englynion attributed to him and Owen Dwnn and Griffith Benrhaw
GRUFFUDD GRYG (fl. second half of the 14th century), bard date within that period? It is certain that Gruffudd was a contemporary, for some years, of Dafydd ap Gwilym, as there was a well-known bardic 'controversy' between the two. Dafydd's floruit was probably 1340-70; assuming that Gruffudd did not write the poem to Einion until 1360 and that he continued to write until 1412 that would give the period 1360-70 as a possible period of association between
GRUFFUDD LEIAF (fl. 15th century), poet A native of Denbighshire, son of Gruffudd Fychan ap Gruffudd ap Dafydd Goch, who traced his descent from Owain Gwynedd. (Peniarth MS 127 (17)). An englyn written by him is found in Cwrtmawr MS 242B (1) and NLW MS 6499B (1). A cywydd to the owl is also attributed to him in some manuscripts, e.g. Cardiff MS. 64 (552), and Esgair MS. 1 (37); but the same poem bears the name of Dafydd ap Gwilym, and
GRUFFUDD LLWYD ap DAFYDD ab EINION LLYGLIW (fl. c. 1380-1410), a poet ap Gwilym (Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, i, 235). The elegy composed by Rhys Goch Eryri on his death forms the opening of that poet's bardic controversy (ymryson) with Llywelyn ap Moel; Gruffudd is also praised by Llywelyn.
GRUFFYDD, ROBERT GERAINT (1928 - 2015), Welsh scholar scholar Geraint Gruffydd was able to master new areas thoroughly and to undertake personal research, presenting detailed and secure textual analyses and innovative insights. In Bangor he turned to the work of Dafydd ap Gwilym and the poets of the gentry (y cywyddwyr), in Aberystwyth he was called upon to work on the earliest Welsh poetry (hengerdd) and the transition to the poems of the earliest
GRUFFYDD, WILLIAM JOHN (1881 - 1954), scholar, poet, critic and editor mewn Adfyd by Huw Lewys (1595), and a bilingual booklet on Dafydd ap Gwilym appeared in 1935. He published four anthologies of poetry. The first was Cywyddau Goronwy Owen (1907). Y Flodeugerdd Newydd (1909) was a selection of cywyddau of the poets of the gentry, meant as a textbook for students rather than a meticulous work of scholarship. Blodeuglwm o Englynion (1920) included, in addition to the
GWILYM ab ELIS - see ELLIS, WILLIAM

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