Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ELLIS, ALICE (1730 - 1808), Moravian - see GRIFFITH, WILLIAM
EVANS, THEOPHILUS (1693 - 1767), cleric, historian, and man of letters Hugh Jones (father of Theophilus Jones), but he held Llanfaes until his death, 11 September 1767. He was buried in Llangamarch churchyard. The hymnist William Williams of Pantycelyn was appointed his curate in 1740 but, as Theophilus Evans refused to recommend him for ordination as priest, he left in 1743. He married 1728, Alice, daughter of Morgan Bevan of Gelligaled, Glamorganshire, and they had
FITZGERALD, MAURICE (d. 1176), one of the conquerors of Ireland services. It is said that his wife (living in 1171) was Alice, granddaughter of Roger de Montgomery. Maurice, who was a brave and modest man of few words, died at Wexford c. 1 September 1176. William died 1174.
GRENFELL, DAVID RHYS (1881 - 1968), Labour politician He was born at Penyrheol, Gorseinon on 27 June 1881, the son of William and Alice/Ann Grenfell. She was the daughter of William Hopkins. His father was a coalminer who originally came from Blaenavon in Monmouthshire. The only formal education which he received early in life was at Penyrheol Elementary School which he left at just twelve years of age to become a coalminer, but he was assiduous in
GRIFFITH family Garn, Plasnewydd, conclusions reached by the editor of Detholiad o Waith Gruffudd ab Ieuan ap Llewelyn Vychan (Bangor, 1910), was able to throw additional light on the career of the bard. Gruffydd ap Ieuan's first wife was Janet, daughter of Richard ap Howel (see Mostyn of Mostyn); his successor in the Griffith line was THOMAS AP GRIFFITH AP IEUAN, his son by his second wife, Alice, daughter of John Owen, Tre Bwll
GRIFFITH, ALICE (1730 - 1808), Moravian - see GRIFFITH, WILLIAM
GRIFFITH, JOHN (1752 - 1818), Independent minister died 18 February 1818. In 1783 he had published a hymn-book and in 1788 a Welsh translation of Doddridge's Rise of Religion in the Soul. He was twice married. His second wife was Janet Williams of Bwlch Mwlchan - she was a niece of William Griffith (1719 - 1782) of Drws-y-coed, and not (as is stated in the biography of William Griffith of Holyhead) of his wife, Alice Griffith. They had two sons. The
GRIFFITH, WILLIAM (1719 - 1782), farmer - 1801). This was due less directly to Griffith than to his wife ALICE (1730 - 1808), daughter of Rhys Ellis of Tyddyn Mawr, Llanfihangel-y-pennant, Caernarfonshire (another literary family), whom he married 16 November 1753. Griffith died 20 April 1782; his widow died 6 March 1808; both were buried at Beddgelert. They had a son (who emigrated to U.S.A.) and eight daughters; five of these became active
GRIFFITHS, WINIFRED MAIR (1916 - 1996), minister (Cong) and headmistress Mair Griffiths was born in Cardiff 6 June 1916, one of two daughters born to Griffith William and Alice Maud Griffiths. Griffith William Griffiths had come as a young man to work in Cardiff from Montgomeryshire, where his parents were farming at the Forge Farm, near Pontrobert, on the road to Meifod. It is interesting to note, in this connection, that the brother of one of her father's great
GRUFFYDD ap IEUAN ap LLYWELYN FYCHAN (c. 1485 - 1553), bard and member of a Welsh landed family Richard ap Howel of Mostyn; by this marriage he was the father of Alice 'ferch Gruffydd ap Ieuan,' a poetess. It was by his second marriage, with Alice, daughter of John Owen of Llansantffraid, that he became the ancestor of the Griffith family of Garn and Plasnewydd. For some of the family connections see the articles in this dictionary on Davies (of Llannerch), and Davies-Cooke (of Gwysaney) and
HALL, GEORGE HENRY (first Viscount Hall of Cynon Valley), (1881 - 1965), politician sons of this marriage, one succeeded to the title and the other was killed on active service when serving as a First Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, 11 May 1942, and (2) Alice Martha Walker, daughter of Ben Walker of Brinklow, Rugby, in 1964. She was a member of the Leicestershire County Council. He died in Leicester Hospital, 8 November 1965.
HAYCOCK, BLODWEN MYFANWY (1913 - 1963), artist and author Born at Glyndŵr, Mount Pleasant, Pontnewynydd, Monmouthshire on 23 March 1913, the youngest of the three daughters of James David Haycock, miner (known locally as Jim Pearce) and Alice Maud, née Perry (both natives of Monmouthshire). Educated at Cwm-ffrwd-oer primary school, Pontypool grammar school for girls and Cardiff Technical College (later Cardiff College of Art). Her skill as an

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