Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRIFFITH, GWILYM WYNNE (1914 - 1989), physician and Medical Officer of Health Bangor when he became minister of Tabernacl church there. Gwilym Wynne Griffith was educated in Porthmadog and Friars' School, Bangor where he won the Robert Gee scholarship to Liverpool University medical school in 1932; he graduated in 1938. His primary interests lay in the field of public health and cancer and he became a leading authority on the epidemiology of the disease. He won the Rex Cohen
GRIFFITH, HUW WYNNE (1915 - 1993), minister (Presb) and a prominent ecumenical leader Douglas (1918-1918). Huw Wynne Griffith was educated in Liverpool before the family moved in 1923 to Porthmadog, where he attended the local primary school and Porthmadog County School, then in Friars School, Bangor (when his father became minister of Tabernacl church, Bangor), University College of North Wales, Bangor (where he graduated with a BA in Latin), Westminster College, Cambridge where he
GWYN, JOHN (d. 1574), lawyer, placeman, and educational benefactor describes him as 'learned and a Wise man and a bountifull housekeeper.' He died, unmarried, in 1574, having 'gathered a great Estate' which he left to his brother and executor GRIFFITH, with provision in his will (1 June 1574, quoted Cal. of Wynn Papers, 54; Baker, Hist. of S. John's, i, 421-2; Barber and Lewis, Hist. of Friars School, 170-1) for £40 a year out of the Maenan estate to maintain three
HAWYS (HAWISE) GADARN (1291 - ante 1353), baroness of Powys buried at the house of the Grey Friars, Shrewsbury.
HUDSON-WILLIAMS, THOMAS (1873 - 1961), scholar and translator Born 4 February 1873, son of R. Williams, Caernarfon. He was educated at Friars School, Bangor, University College of North Wales, Bangor, and the University of Greifswald. In 1894 he took the degree of the University of London in Classics, French and Celtic, and the D. Lit., of the same university in 1911. He was appointed Assistant Lecturer in French and German at University College, Bangor, in
HUGHES, ROBERT GWILYM (1910 - 1997), poet and minister with the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist denomination taught at Cae Top School from 1919 to 1921, where he sat a scholarship for Friars School. This was a school for boys which had a great reputation for its classics-teaching. The headmaster W. St Bodvan Griffith combined expertise in classics as well as in science. R. Gwilym Hughes came under the influence of R. E. Hughes, the Welsh teacher, grandfather of the Welsh author and campaigner, Angharad Tomos
HUGHES, THOMAS JONES (1822 - 1891), cleric and grammarian Born at Bangor, 11 June 1822. He was educated at Friars School, Bangor, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1840; he became a scholar of his college, and a wrangler. He took his B.A. in 1844 and his M.A. in 1847. He was ordained deacon by bishop Bethell of Bangor, 1 February 1846, and received priest's orders on 20 December in the same year. He was licensed to the curacy of
HUGHES, WILLIAM JOHN (1891 - 1945), school teacher and college lecturer Nuremberg to pursue studies in French and German and methods of teaching these languages at Le Cours de Langues Institute. At the same time he taught English at German night schools. He spent a further six and a half years as a teacher in secondary schools - at Lisburn, Belfast, January 1913 to 1915, Ilminster in Somerset to 1916, and Friars School, Bangor, to 1919. He was awarded the degree of M.A. in
IOLO GOCH (c. 1320 - c. 1398), poet was the contemporary of Dafydd ap Gwilym and Llywelyn Goch Amheurig Hen, upon both of whom he wrote elegies. He also carried on a poetic controversy with Gruffydd Gryg. His awdlau were written in the manner of the 'Gogynfeirdd,' and even his cywyddau bear many traces of antiquity both in respect of vocabulary and syntax. Like Dafydd ap Gwilym he had quarrelled bitterly with the Grey Friars. One of
JARMAN, ALFRED OWEN HUGHES (1911 - 1998), Welsh scholar Alfred (Fred) Jarman was born in Bangor 8 October 1911, the eldest of the three children of Thomas Jarman, a shop keeper from Newtown, Montgomeryshire, and his wife Flora. He was educated at Cae Top primary school and Friars' Grammar School Bangor, and then at the University College of North Wales, Bangor where he graduated with first-class honours in Welsh in 1932 and in English the following
JOHANNES WALLENSIS (fl. c. 1260-1283), Franciscan friar and writer He belonged to the custody of Worcester. His early career is unknown, but sometime before 1260 he became sixth regent-master of the Friars Minor at Oxford, where he had already taken his B.D., and later was a lecturer and Doctor of Theology at Paris, where he was regent, it seems, at the Franciscan centre in 1282. In October of this latter year archbishop Peckham of Canterbury used him as an
JONES, EDMUND OSBORNE (1858 - 1931), cleric Born at Barmouth, 24 September 1858, second son of John Jones, rector of Llanaber with Barmouth, and Adelaide his wife. He was educated at Dolgelley grammar school and Friars School, Bangor, under the headmaster-ship of D. L. Lloyd. He matriculated at Oxford in October 1876, as a Postmaster of Merton College, was placed in the first class in classical Moderations in 1878, and in the third class

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