Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GAMAGE family Coety, Coity, . His elder brother, ROBERT, was on a commission to search for church goods in 1553, and on the commission of enquiry into the death of William Mathew in 1556. He was involved in litigation for the possession of Coety castle. His wife was Joan, daughter of Philip Champernoun. Robert's elder son, JOHN, married Gwenllian, daughter of Sir Thomas ap Jenkin Powel Tellet of Glyn Ogwr. He may have been the
GOCH, MATHEW - see GOUGH, MATHEW
GOUGH, MATHEW (c. 1390 - 1450), soldier He was born c. 1390. A native of Maelor, in the lower valley of the Dee. His father was Owen Gough, bailiff of the manor of Hanmer; his mother was a daughter of David Hanmer, the nurse of John, lord Talbot, afterwards earl of Shrewsbury. Of the many Welshmen who fought in France during the latter part of the hundred years' war none won greater distinction than Mathew Gough. His name appears in
GRIFFITH family PENRHYN, . Gwynn Jones, i, 146.) He appears also to have maintained close relationships with Sir Rhys ap Thomas of Dynevor. His first wife was Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Stradling of St Donats, Glamorganshire, and his wife, Joan, daughter of Thomas Mathew of Radyr, Glamorganshire Sir Thomas Stradling died 1480, and his widow married shortly after Sir Rhys ap Thomas, as his second wife. Poems to William
GRIFFITHS, EVAN (Ieuan Ebblig; 1795 - 1873), Independent minister school at Newport, Monmouth, kept by Jenkin Lewis. At the end of this period he was recommended by his teacher to lady Diana Barham as a suitable person to take charge of two Independent churches, Pilton Green and Park Mill, in Gower. He commenced his ministry 3 May 1822. He resigned his pastorate, 4 August 1828, and removed to Swansea to work on the translation of Mathew Henry's Commentary into Welsh
HENRY, DAVID (Myrddin Wyllt; 1816 - 1873), Independent minister and folk poet daughters and two sons were born of the marriage, one of whom was the Rev. Thomas Mathew Henry (1854-1883), Independent minister of Beddgelert, Caernarfonshire David Henry was ordained minister of the Independent cause at Cymer, Glyncorrwg, Glamorganshire, in July 1849, but removed to take charge of the two chapels at Milo, Llanfihangel Aberbythych, and Pen-y-groes, Llandybïe in 1857. He won numerous
HERBERT, WILLIAM (earl of Pembroke), (d. 1469), soldier and statesman Son of Sir William ap Thomas of Raglan and Gwladus, daughter of Dafydd Gam. He served with the English forces in Normandy with his countryman Mathew Gough, was taken prisoner at Formigny (April 1450), and knighted at Christmas, 1450. In the struggle between Lancaster and York his interests, if not also his sympathies, inclined him to favour the Yorkists, for their strength on the borders of South
HUGHES, JOHN EDWARD (1879 - 1959), minister (Presb.) and author , and his remains were buried in Llanidan churchyard. J.E. Hughes was a discerning theologian. His articles on the person of Christ in Y Drysorfa drew the attention of Dr. John Williams, Brynsiencyn (1854 - 1921, who persuaded Brynsiencyn church to extend a call to him. In addition to writing for the Traethodydd, Y Drysorfa, and Goleuad, he published a commentary on the Gospel according to St. Mathew
HUGHES, RICHARD SAMUEL (1888 - 1952), minister (Presb.), and college tutor to St. Mathew was published in 1937.
HYWEL ap 'Syr' MATHEW (d. 1581), poet, genealogist, and soldier A native of the Teme valley in Radnorshire. His poetry includes cywyddau written to bishop Richard Davies, William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, Mathew ap Morus of Ceri, Siencyn ap Dafydd of Llanarthney, and an awdl to Lewys Gwyn of Glyn Nedd (Neath) (Llanstephan MS 133 (71, 712), Llanstephan MS 30 (384); Hafod MS. 13 (197); Brogyntyn MS. 2 (529)). We learn from the late 16th century copy of his
IEUAN RUDD (fl. 1470), a Glamorgan bard who sang in the second half of the 15th century. Two cywyddau by him survive, the one upon the marriage-feast of Sir Rhys ap Thomas and Sioned (Janet), daughter of Thomas Mathew of Radyr, Glamorganshire, and the other to the 'paderau main crisial' (the crystal paternosters). There is a reference to him in a cywydd which Llywelyn Goch y Dant wrote c. 1470 to invite Hywel ap Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Rhys
JONES, GWILYM CLEATON (1875 - 1961) Cape Town, Johannesburg, bank manager national treasurer of the National War Fund. He was also manager of the Heynes Mathew Co., Ltd. from 1937 until 1958. He acted as honorary treasurer of the Cape Western Regional Committee South African Institute of Race Relations. On the strength of his ability as an administrator as well as his legal knowledge, he was invited to serve on a sub-committee called to form a constitution for the Institute of

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