Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GOLDSWAIN, BRYNLEY VERNON (1922 - 1983), rugby league player Community Home, Newton-le-Willows, a residential school for young offenders on the outskirts of Liverpool. He married Margaret Magdalen Muriel Vaughan (1921-2000) at St. Michael's Church, Aberystwyth on July 24, 1942. In the church register Goldswain's address is given as 15 Morgans Street, Abercrave, and his spouse was a daughter of Roderick Charles Vaughan, a postman, of 8 Gogerddan Cottages
GOWER, Sir ERASMUS (1742 - 1814), admiral intermarriage with the original family, the Vaughans. These were descendants of Robert Vaughan, a cadet of the better-known Vaughans of Cors-y-gedol in Merionethshire; this Robert's wife was Elizabeth, daughter of the translator Thomas Phaer. The Gowers eventually removed from Glandovan to Clunderwen, Pembrokeshire.
GREY family (POWIS, lords of), Sir JOHN GRAY or GREY, of Heton, Northumberland (c. 1385 - 1421), married Joan, elder daughter and coheiress of Sir Edward Cherleton, lord of Powis (died 1421). In her right, he, for a few months, enjoyed half the lordship of Pool. When Sir John Oldcastell (Oldcastle), otherwise known as lord Cobham, was taken from hiding at Broniarth in 1417 by Ieuan and Griffith Vaughan, and handed over to
GRIFFITH, GEORGE (1601 - 1666), bishop remain at Llanymynech till the Restoration; he indirectly recognized this measure of indulgence, by signing certificates of commendation to the Triers in favour of Puritan ministers (more often, quasi-Puritans). On the other hand, it was he who presented Rowland Vaughan of Caer-gai with a copy of Dr. Jasper Mayne's belligerent sermon of 1652 to be translated into Welsh (Pregeth yn erbyn Schism, 1658
GRUFFUDD HIRAETHOG (d. 1564), bard and herald He sang the praises of the gentry of Denbighshire, Anglesey, Caernarvonshire and Merioneth, and is supposed to have been the disciple of Tudur Aled. His licence to go on bardic circuits (which still exists, Reports, i, 1021) was granted in 1545-6 under the hands of James Vaughan, Hugh Lewis and Lewys Morgannwg. He is best known as a bardic teacher; some of the foremost bards of the second half of
GWYNETH VAUGHAN - see HUGHES, ANNIE HARRIET
GWYNNE-VAUGHAN, DAVID THOMAS (1871 - 1915), botanist Born 12 March 1871 at Erwood House, Brecknock, eldest son of H. T. Gwynne-Vaughan of Erwood, formerly of Cynghordy, near Llandovery, a member of the Gwynne of Glanbrân clan - some give Llandovery as the botanist's place of birth, and 3 March as the date. From Monmouth school, he went up in 1890 to Christ's College, Cambridge, and graduated (class I in the natural sciences tripos) in 1893. After
HAMER, Sir GEORGE FREDERICK (1885 - 1965), industrialist and public figure Kt., cr. 1955; C.B.E. 1948; Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire and Custos Rotulorum 1950-60; born 19 March 1885, son of Edward and Martha Hamer (née Matthews), Summerfield Park, Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire; married Sybil Dorothy Vaughan Owen (High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire 1958), 3rd daughter of Dr. John Vaughan Owen and Emma Wigley Owen (née Davies), at St. Idloes parish church, Llanidloes on 1
HARRIES, JOHN (c.1785 - 1839), astrologer and medical practitioner aforementioned book. Ithiel Vaughan-Poppy includes detailed descriptions of John and Henry Harries and their wives in her essay 'The Harries Kingdom - Wizards of Cwrt-y-cadno', and states that she deposited photographs of all four in the National Library of Wales. However, since ambrotypes did not come into use until the early 1850s, it is unlikely that these are photographs of John, his 'wife' Elizabeth Emily
HERBERT family Montgomery, Parke, Blackhall, Dolguog, Cherbury, Aston, with Owen Vaughan (probably of the Vaughan family of Llwydiarth, which opposed it). He succeeded the 4th lord Herbert of Cherbury (above) as colonel of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, and was killed on service in Ireland (1691). All three brothers died without issue.
HEYLIN, ROWLAND (1562? - 1631), publisher of Welsh books issued from the London press in large numbers, 1630-32. They included the Welsh - Latin dictionary of John Davies (1570? - 1644) of Mallwyd, the translation by Rowland Vaughan of the Practice of Piety, of bishop Lewis Bayly, and the Welsh quarto Bible 'of 1630, bound up with the Welsh Prayer Book and the psalter of Edmund Prys. He died, childless, in 1631. He impressed contemporaries as 'a man of
HOLLAND family affection. Hollands of Conway (A.) The clan whose origins are clearer includes (1) the Hollands of Conway. According to the chief authority on the Hollands, Bernard Holland, in his book The Hollands of Lancashire (see also A. S. Vaughan Thomas in the composite volume Hugh Holland, and his appendices), this clan derives from the noble family of Matthew de Holland (temp. king John) of Upholland, Lancashire

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