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GRIFFITHS, ANN (1776 - 1805), hymn-writer her memory; when Ruth married John Hughes, the latter wrote them down in two note-books. It was he, doubtless, who gave them to Thomas Charles of Bala, but it is thought that Robert Jones (1745 - 1829) of Rhos-lan prepared them for publication. They were published in the 1805 edition of Grawn-Syppiau Canaan and later (1806) in Casgliad o Hymnau gan mwyaf heb erioed eu hargraffu o'r blaen (Bala, R
GRUFFYDD, ELIS (fl. c. 1490-1552), 'the soldier of Calais,' copyist, translator, and chronicler ' The Field of the Cloth of Gold,' near Calais, in 1521, when the emperor Charles V met Henry VIII, and also in the army of the duke of Suffolk (Sir Charles Brandon) during the campaign in France between July and Christmas 1523. From the beginning of 1524 until 1529 he was keeper of Sir Robert Wingfield's palace in London; and it was there that he copied what is now Cardiff Phillipps MS. 10823, a
GUEST, LADY CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH (1812 - 1895), translator, businesswoman and collector interest in the welfare of workmen of all kinds and their families, discussed technical matters with leading engineers and scientists such as Charles Babbage and translated into English a French pamphlet on the use of hot blast. Her most significant translation work was, however, devoted to what she called 'The Mabinogion'. Within days of arriving in Dowlais she had started learning Middle Welsh, tutored
GWYN, CHARLES (1582 - 1647) - gweler BODVEL
GWYN, JOHN (bu farw 1574), lawyer, placeman, and educational benefactor , Cambridge, in 1545, becoming B.A. in 1548, and was then elected Fellow of S. John's, where he took his M.A. in 1551 and LL.D. in 1560. When in 1551 Henry and Charles Brandon, dukes of Suffolk and members of the college, died of sweating sickness, Gwyn was among those who wrote commemoratory verses. He served as proctor in 1555-6, but the assertion by his nephew Sir John (in his The history of the Gwydir
teulu GWYNNE Kilvey College of Divinity; curate of Barrow, Cheshire, 1882-85, Winsley, Wiltshire, 1885-86 and St. John, Tunbridge Wells, 1891-1909, rector of Little Easton in the diocese of Chelmsford, 1915-37. CHARLES BROOKE GWYNNE (1861 - 1944) Religion; born Kilvey, July 1861; educated at Swansea Grammar School and Christ College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. 1884 and M.A. 1888. He was curate of Timperley, 1885-88 and
teulu GWYNNE Garth, Maes-llech, Llanlleonfel in 1711, was sheriff ofRadnorshire in 1718, and married Sarah, daughter of Daniel Evans of Peterwell (Meyrick, Cardiganshire, 2nd ed., 222). According to Jackson, Life of Charles Wesley, i, 514, she was one of six sisters, each of whom had £30,000. She and her husband certainly lived in great state at Garth, keeping a chaplain and twenty servants, and seldom having fewer than ten to fifteen guests
teulu GWYNNE Llanelwedd, 1689-90, 1698, 1700-1, and at other times for an English borough - twenty-three years in all. Though knighted (1680) by Charles II, he was a stout Whig, and is eulogized in Macaulay's History; he initiated the 'association oath' and was a strong defender of lord chancellor Somers. He held a household office under William and Mary, but fell out of favour in Anne's reign, and died 24 January 1725/6
GWYNNE, CHARLES (1580 - 1647), Jesuit missionary - gweler BODVEL
HALL, AUGUSTA (Lady Llanover), (Gwenynen Gwent; 1802 - 1896), patron of Welsh culture and inventor of the Welsh national costume music, but also subjects such as house keeping and economy. She married the politician and reformer Benjamin Hall in 1823, uniting their neighbouring estates of Llanover and Aber-carn. By that time the family had travelled widely in Great Britain and Europe, and her sister Frances had married Baron Christian Charles Josiah von Bunsen, historian, Prussian envoy to the court of Queen Victoria 1838-1852
teulu HANBURY, industrialists for his services the widow presented him with a service of plate, and his wife with pearls. In 1720 he benefited to the extent of £70,000 by the legacy of his friend Charles Williams of Caerleon. With a part of this money he bought Colbrook House, near Abergavenny (the ancient mansion of the Herberts) for his fourth son Charles Hanbury, afterwards called Charles Hanbury Williams. John Hanbury was
HANBURY-TRACY, CHARLES (1777 - 1858), industrialist - gweler HANBURYfamily, industrialists

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