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GRIFFITH, WILLIAM JOHN (1875 - 1931), writer of short stories Born at Bwlan, Aberffraw, Anglesey, 15 September 1875, son of Thomas Lewis Griffith, farmer and valuer, and Margaret Griffith of Bwlan. The family went to live at Cefn Coch farm, Llansadwrn, near Beaumaris, where Griffith lived until he was 24 years of age. He was educated at Llansadwrn and at Beaumaris grammar-school, won an agricultural scholarship to the university college, Bangor, and took a
GRIFFITHS, JOHN POWELL (1875 - 1944), minister (Baptist) and schoolmaster colleges were full and competition for entry was fierce. He also taught History and Christian Doctrine when necessary. It is estimated that 140 ministers from different denominations went to him for teaching. Among them were Dr Emlyn Davies, Toronto, Principals Gwilym Bowyer and Tom Ellis Jones, Bangor, and the poet Rhydwen Williams. The name 'Rhos College', which is sometimes used to refer to his school
GRUFFUDD ap CYNAN (c. 1055 - 1137), king of Gwynedd . During his imprisonment the Normans gained much land in Gwynedd, and built castles at Bangor, Caernarvon and Aberlleiniog (near the later Beaumaris). It cannot now be stated with certainty how long Gruffudd remained a prisoner (the History at one point says twelve years and at another sixteen years), but he was free by 1094 (and perhaps some years earlier) because he was prominent in the general
GRUFFYDD, IFAN (1896 - 1971), author 1963 and became a classic volume of reminiscences. It was followed by Tân yn y siambar (1966) and Crybinion (1971). He died 4 March 1971 at Caernarfon and Anglesey Hospital, Bangor and was buried in Cerrigceinwen cemetery, Llangristiolus, 6 March. His wife Catherine had predeceased him.
GRUFFYDD, ROBERT GERAINT (1928 - 2015), Welsh scholar intellectual conversation on a range of political, religious and social topics. Saunders Lewis found in Moses Griffith a strong and generous friend in his bleak years and Geraint took pride in his association with the author and literary thinker who appointed him his literary executor. He attended local primary schools in Dyffryn Ardudwy, Cwm Ystwyth and Pen-llwyn (Capel Bangor) before going to Ardwyn
GRUFFYDD, WILLIAM JOHN (1881 - 1954), scholar, poet, critic and editor the principles of literary criticism adopted by the editor. Two lectures were published in pamphlet form - Ceiriog (1939) and Islwyn (1942). Gruffydd was better known to his fellow-countrymen as a poet than as a scholar. He competed unsuccessfully for the crown at the national eisteddfod at Bangor in 1902 with a poem on the subject ' Trystan ac Esyllt ', but was awarded the prize at the London
GUTO'R GLYN (fl. second half of the 15th century), bard house'). He was fond of churchmen and abbots - the parson of Corwen; David Kyffin and Richard Kyffin, deans of Bangor; Siôn Mechain, the parson of Llandrinio; the abbot of Shrewsbury; and the abbots of Valle Crucis. Politically, Guto'r Glyn was an adherent of the house of York; some of his chief patrons, such as William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, and his brother, Sir Richard Herbert, Coldbrook, were
GWYN, JOHN (bu farw 1574), lawyer, placeman, and educational benefactor Bangor cathedral, resigning it next year to his second brother Griffith - only to resume it in 1555, after which he kept it until his death, defying the efforts of archbishop Parker to dislodge him. In 1556 he was presented to the sinecure rectory of Llanrhaeadr in Cinmerch. He was reported by bishop Rowland Meyrick as one of four lay lawyers beneficed in the diocese. He seems to have been entirely
GWYNN, EIRWEN MEIRIONA (1916 - 2007), scientist, educator and author the University College of North Wales, Bangor. She claims in her autobiography that the prejudice of the external examiner against women in physics and engineering was the reason for her failure to gain a first class degree in 1937. The same prejudice was to dog her career for many years and was the basis of her lifelong uncompromising feminist conviction. After graduating, Eirwen stayed on in
GWYNN, HARRI (1913 - 1985), writer and broadcaster that gained him a place at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, where he studied for an Honours Degree in History. Despite a serious bout of pneumonia which forced him to spend time in hospital and repeat his first year, he graduated in 1934, and was elected students' union president the following year. In an autobiographical radio broadcast 40 years later, he looked back at the 1930s
HARRIES, ISAAC HARDING (bu farw c. 1868), Independent minister, and editor of periodicals built a new chapel near Swansea by the name of Caersalem Newydd. His conduct went on deteriorating so that his erstwhile friends had to turn him out early in 1841. In 1842 he is heard of at Bangor as minister to a number of Independent Wesleyans or 'Wesle Bach' at Bethel, Union Street, keeping school in the chapel as well. In January 1843, he began publishing a monthly magazine named Tŵr Gwalia
HENRY, PHILIP (1631 - 1696), Presbyterian minister and diarist scholarship. Thus the whole atmosphere of Henry's early life was unmistakably Anglican; for all that, he became a convert to the Presbyterian way and outlook, seeing no hope of a relaxed and liberal Episcopalian system. After graduating B.A. (1651) and M.A. (1652) he was appointed tutor to the sons of judge John Puleston at Emral in English Maelor, and preacher at Worthenbury chapel in the parish of Bangor

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