Dictionary of Welsh Biography

FRANCIS, DAVID (1911 - 1981), trade unionist and miners' leader Catherine, the daughter of William Powell, a local colliery checkweighman, and they set up home at Onllwyn. The union was extraordinarily happy and proved immensely supportive to him throughout the harsh vicissitudes of public life. They had two children, a daughter Nancy (born 1939), and a son Hywel (born 1946) who became a distinguished historian and served as Labour MP for Aberavon from 2001. Francis
FRANCIS, EDMUND (1768 - 1831), Sandemanian Baptist minister Probably an Anglesey man, for his mother Lydia Francis was baptized at Amlwch; he too was baptized there, 8 October 1786. He had begun preaching before 1790, and on 1 December 1795 was ordained as assistant to Christmas Evans. Evans was at that time a Sandemanian; unlike him, Francis held to those views for the rest of his life. In 1799 he removed to Caernarvon, as clerk to Richard Roberts (a
FRIMSTON, THOMAS (Tudur Clwyd; 1854 - 1930), Baptist minister, historian and antiquary ), and finally Old Colwyn (1904-30). He married 13 June 1882, Sarah Eleanor Roberts (died 1 May 1927), daughter of Edward Roberts, Llangollen; five children were born of the marriage. He died 12 May 1930. Frimston is best remembered for his researches into Welsh Baptist history, e.g. Ebenezer: Hanes Eglwys Fedyddiedig, Llangefni, 1897; Canrif o Ymdrechion Bedyddwyr Môn, 1902; and several contributions
GAMAGE family Coety, Coity, , daughter of Sir John St. John of Bletsoe, the mother of his children and (2) Joyce, daughter of Sir Richard Croft. In 1516 he was a party to a double settlement on the marriage of his son, JOHN, with Jane Stradling and his daughter, Catherine, with Thomas Stradling. John died in London during the lifetime of his parents; Lewys Morgannwg wrote an ode on the occasion, and Tomas ap Ieuan ap Rhys a cwndid
GLENN, THOMAS ALLEN (1864 - 1948), soldier, historian, genealogist, and archaeologist Born 8 January 1864 in Pennsylvania, the son of Edward and Sarah Catherine Glenn, British subjects. Glenn had a distinguished military career both in America and in Britain. By 1903 he was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the American army, but he resigned from the U.S.A. services in 1905 and came to reside in Wales. He served as an officer in World War I and held a commission in the Home Guard in World
GLYNNE family Sir STEPHEN RICHARD GLYNNE (1807 - 1874), 9th baronet. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford (B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831), at both of which places he knew W. E. Gladstone, who married Catherine, Sir Stephen's sister, on 25 July 1839. He represented Flint as a Liberal, 1832-7, and Flintshire for the next ten years, and was lord lieutenant of Flintshire for many years. He travelled extensively
GOLDSWAIN, BRYNLEY VERNON (1922 - 1983), rugby league player Bryn Goldswain was born on 3 August 1922 in Merthyr Tudful, the son of Reginald Stephen Goldswain, a miner and then a policeman who died as a young man, and his wife Catherine (née Jones, 1897-1981). The family moved to Aber-craf in the Swansea Valley when Bryn was four years old. He was educated locally and at Ystalyfera Grammar School. He played rugby union for Aber-craf, before going to work
GORONWY-ROBERTS, Baron - see ROBERTS, GORONWY OWEN
GRENFELL family, Swansea industrialists GRENFELL (1798 - 1879), Deputy Lieutenant, J.P. Business and Industry Law Philanthropy The eldest son of Pascoe and Georgina. He came to live in Swansea in the 1840s and built Maesteg House at the foot of Kilvey Hill. He married, 1st in 1824, Catherine Ann Du Pre, the eldest daughter of James Du Pre of Wilton Park in Buckinghamshire and the grand-daughter of Josias Du Pre, Governor of Madras, and 2nd in
GRESHAM, COLIN ALASTAIR (1913 - 1989), archaeologist, historian and author a century (1938-88) Colin Gresham published extensively on the archaeology and history of the counties of Caernarfon and Merioneth in various journals. He also contributed to Atlas Meirionydd (1974) and to Atlas Sir Gaernarfon (1977). He gave the Eifionydd Annual Lecture in 1981 on the subject 'Teulu'r Trefan'. (The lecture was translated into Welsh by Guto Roberts, Rhoslan, who also delivered it
GREVILLE, CHARLES FRANCIS (1749 - 1809), founder of Milford Haven town, Pembrokeshire Second son of Francis, earl of Warwick, and his wife Elizabeth Hamilton. He became the agent, and subsequently the heir, of his mother's brother, Sir William Hamilton (1730 - 1803), who had succeeded to a considerable estate in south Pembrokeshire through his marriage with Catherine Barlow of Colby (died 1782). In 1790 Hamilton obtained a private act of parliament which enabled him to develop his
GRIFFITH family PENRHYN, (117, 293, 329), 1467-77 (54, 490), 1476-85 (121)). He was dead by 13 September 1483 (Penrhyn MSS. 38-9). A number of contemporary poets sang his praises - Cynwrig ap Dafydd Goch, Dafydd ab Edmwnd, Guto'r Glyn, Rhys Goch Eryri, and Robin Ddu (NLW MS 3051D, Mostyn MSS. 493, 495, 498, 542; Llanstephan MS 118, Llanstephan MS 78; Gwaith Dafydd ab Edmwnd (ed. T. Roberts), 107; Gwaith Guto'r Glyn (ed. J

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