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GRIFFITH, WILLIAM (1719 - 1782), farmer of Drws-y-coed Uchaf, at the head of Nantlle Vale, from 1744 till his death; known to Goronwy Owen, to Margaret Davies, of Coedcae-du, and to David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri as a man of literary tastes, is also noteworthy because his house was the centre of the Moravian mission in Northwest Wales from 1768 to 1776 - see under David Williams (1702 - 1779), David Mathias, and John Morgan (1743
GROSSMAN, YEHUDIT ANASTASIA (1919 - 2011), Jewish patriot and author Wales, she lived mostly alone with her young son until December 1950. Her husband was absent, undertaking training in engraving and letter cutting at the former workshop of Eric Gill in Speen, Berkshire, and beginning his career in this field before he was struck down by a serious case of tuberculosis. At that time, Yehudit was able with the assistance of the local member of parliament, Goronwy
GRUFFYDD, WILLIAM JOHN (1881 - 1954), scholar, poet, critic and editor mewn Adfyd by Huw Lewys (1595), and a bilingual booklet on Dafydd ap Gwilym appeared in 1935. He published four anthologies of poetry. The first was Cywyddau Goronwy Owen (1907). Y Flodeugerdd Newydd (1909) was a selection of cywyddau of the poets of the gentry, meant as a textbook for students rather than a meticulous work of scholarship. Blodeuglwm o Englynion (1920) included, in addition to the
GWALCHMAI ap MEILYR (fl. 1130-1180), court poet Trewalchmai in Anglesey, and also that three of his sons were named Meilyr, Dafydd and Elidir. In his ' Dream,' Gwalchmai laments the loss of Goronwy, and in a series of elegiac englynion to the retinue of Owain Gwynedd (The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 163b) mention is made of a Goronwy, son of Gwalchmai.
GWILYM DDU O ARFON (fl. c. 1280-1320), poet it is said that he lived in the place called Muriau Gwilym Ddu (Enwogion Sir Gaernarfon). A little of his work remains in manuscript and this includes two poems in praise of Sir Gruffydd Llwyd of Tregarnedd and written while Gruffydd was imprisoned in Rhuddlan castle, and an elegy to Trahaearn Brydydd ap Goronwy, or Trahaearn Brydydd Mawr - Jes. Coll. MS. 1 and 'Llyfr Coch Hergest' (1225, 1229
GWYNN, HARRI (1913 - 1985), writer and broadcaster insisted that they could not marry unless Harri had a good regular income. One constant shared interest was radical politics. As the minutes show, Eirwen was among the two dozen who came together on 11 November 1936, at the first meeting of the left-leaning ginger group, Mudiad Gwerin, chaired by the future Labour MP Goronwy Roberts, with Harri acting as vice-chair and secretary. The movement's aim, as a
HARRIS, JOSEPH (1704 - 1764), Assay-master at the Mint ; it may be noted too that Joseph Harris was one of the promoters of the pioneer Brecknockshire Agricultural Society in 1755. There are two references to him in the Morris Letters (i, 183, ii, 46 - the latter noting a guinea given by him to Goronwy Owen); another letter by Richard Morris (Y Cymmrodor, xlix, 963) refers to Harris's part in the standardization of weights and measures; and he was a
teulu HERBERT (earls of POWIS), earl figures prominently in the Morris Letters, being interested in Welsh mining ventures. He secured a lease of Esgair-mwyn lead mine in 1757, and Lewis Morris offered to work it for him. The Morris brothers hoped that the earl would secure preferment for Goronwy Owen who composed a cywydd in Welsh and Latin upon the birth of the heir in 1755. The 4th earl died 11 September 1772, and was buried at
HODGE, JULIAN STEPHEN ALFRED (1904 - 2004), financier grandees of the time, including not just James Callaghan, a former Chancellor of the Exchequer and M.P. for the area in which Hodge's premises were located, and George Thomas a former Secretary of State for Wales in the neighbouring seat, but Sir Goronwy Daniel, Principal of University College Aberystwyth and a former Permanent Secretary, Sir Cennydd Traherne, KG, Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, Lord
HOOSON, TOM ELLIS (1933 - 1985), Conservative politician 1959 when he stood against Goronwy O. Roberts, the sitting Labour MP. At the personal invitation of his party leader Margaret Thatcher, Hooson accepted the position of Director of Communications for the Conservative Party in 1976 and remained in the post for two years. He then became Director-General of the Periodical Publishers' Association in 1978. He captured Brecon and Radnor for the
HUGHES, CLEDWYN (BARON CLEDWYN OF PENRHOS), (1916 - 2001), politician , Hughes became a life peer and took the title of Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos, of Holyhead in the Isle of Anglesey. When the Social Democratic Party was formed in 1981, Lord Cledwyn declined an invitation to join the new party. After the death of Lord Goronwy-Roberts in July 1981, Lord Cledwyn was elected deputy leader of the Labour Party in the Lords; dissatisfaction with the leadership of Lord Peart
HUGHES, HUGH (Huw ap Huw, Y Bardd Coch o Fôn; 1693 - 1776), gentleman and poet early in 1759. Some years before the end of his life he moved from Llwydiarth Esgob to Mynydd y Gof Du, Holyhead; he died at Holyhead 6 May 1776 and was buried there. His will is extant. Some autograph poems by Hugh Hughes are to be found in Wynnstay MS 8. A collection of his work (including his 'Cywydd Annerch' to Goronwy Owen and the latter's celebrated reply) was published along with the poems of

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