Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, JOHN (1628 - 1700), Puritan schoolmaster and divine , in ministering to the Dissenting congregation there, and with Vavasor Powell in sustaining similar conventicles at Llanfyllin and Llanfechain. For this he was denounced in 1669 under the Conventicle Act; Palmer (Nonconformists' Memorial, 1775, ii, 645) makes him also pastor of the Wrexham Independents from 1668. He formed a close friendship with Powell and after the latter's death (1670) and that
EVANS, WILLIAM (1838 - 1921), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author of the Rev. William Powell, Pembroke (Cardiff, 1918).
FOULKES, HENRY POWELL (1815 - 1886), cleric and author Born 2 January 1815 at Stanstead Bury, Hertfordshire, the second son of John Powell and Caroline Mary Foulkes. He was educated at King's School, Chester, Shrewsbury and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. 1837 and M.A. 1840. He was ordained deacon in June, 1839 with a title to the curacy of Halkin, Flintshire and in July of the same year he was ordained priest. He was given the
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
GRIDLEY, JOHN CRANDON (1904 - 1968), industrialist John Gridley was born on 28 May 1904 in Cardiff, the only son of William Joseph Gridley and his wife Mary Ellen (née Michell). He was educated at Cardiff and at Queen's College Taunton, Somerset. He played rugby for Glamorgan Wanderers. His early commercial training was in a Cardiff coal and shipping office that became a subsidiary of Powell Duffryn, the largest coal producers and distributors in
GRIFFITH, ALEXANDER (d. 1676), cleric and controversialist in high indignation against the whole propagation policy and especially against Vavasor Powell, who to him was not only the 'metropolitan of the itinerants' but also responsible for the drastic treatment of the Anglican clergy of lower Montgomery and the county of Radnor. In 1652 he organized a petition against the working of the act and published a pamphlet in support; in 1654 he supplied a True
GRIFFITH, GEORGE (1601 - 1666), bishop Llandrinio, otherwise he would have been guilty of that pluralism which the act meant particularly to eradicate. Very soon Griffith was brought into open conflict with that stouthearted and iron-lunged Puritan Vavasor Powell, whose home ground lay in the highlands of Radnor and the flat reaches of lower Montgomery; they had a public open air debate at Newchapel on 23 July 1652, in which Griffith affirmed
GRIFFITHS, EZER (1888 - 1962), physicist apples through the heat of the tropical zones to Britain. Seven years later he went to New Zealand to examine the problems involved in exporting lamb meat to Britain. He was also involved in studying problems linked to vapour trails made by aeroplanes, and he carried out research into the best method of adapting tanks for service in the heat of the Libyan desert during World War II. With R.W. Powell
GRIFFITHS, JOHN POWELL (1875 - 1944), minister (Baptist) and schoolmaster John Powell Griffiths was the son of J. E. Griffiths (1841-1918), minister of Horeb Welsh Baptist church, Skewen, Glamorganshire. The father was born in Froncysyllte and raised to the ministry in Pen-y-cae, where he had been taken by his uncle following the death of his parents when he was three years old. After training for the ministry in Llangollen Academy he was ordained in Swyddffynnon and
HARLEY family (earls of Oxford and Mortimer), Brampton Bryan, Wigmore . 1600 - whom he married in 1623, is well known in her own right, as a letter-writer. Harley had made Brampton Bryan and its neighbourhood a sanctuary for expatriated Puritan ministers, and had thus become the patron of Walter Cradoc, Morgan Llwyd, and Vavasor Powell Brilliana Harley, fully at one with her husband in opposition to the Elizabethan Establishment and all its works (as is proved by her
HARRIS, HOWELL (1714 - 1773), religious reformer His father, who came from Llangadock, Carmarthenshire, to Talgarth, Brecknock, c. 1700, is called 'Howell Powell alias Harris' in the Talgarth parish register; he married Susanna Powell of Trefeca-fach in 1702. Their eldest son, Joseph Harris and another son, Thomas also made names for themselves. Howel, their youngest son, was born 23 January 1714 and was educated at Llwyn-llwyd. From 1732 to
HARRIS, JOSEPH (1704 - 1764), Assay-master at the Mint Eldest son of Howel and Susannah Harris of Trevecka, and brother of Howel and of Thomas Harris. He was christened at Talgarth 16 February 1703/4. After working as a blacksmith with his maternal uncle Thomas Powell, he went to London in 1724, was brought to the notice of Halley the astronomer-royal, and was sent on two voyages to the West Indies (1725, 1730-2) to test mathematical instruments used

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