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teulu GRIFFITH Garn, Plasnewydd, , Llansantffraid, Denbighshire. Thereafter there is a succession of men who served their county or their country in various ways. EDWARD GRIFFITH (1589 - 1671?), grandson of Gruffydd ap Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan, was a Royalist; he was lieutenant colonel of the Denbigh militia, and one of the defenders of Denbigh castle during the civil war. After the Restoration he became clerk to the court of great sessions for
teulu GRIFFITH PENRHYN, deputy to various chamberlains of North Wales (Davies, Conway and Menai Ferries, 47; P.R.O. Min. Acc., 1154/3, 1180/3). He does not appear to have held the office of chamberlain. He was probably the William Griffith who, as ' marshall of the King's Hall,' received grants from Edward IV in 1462 and 1464, and he served on a number of North Wales commissions during Edward's reign (Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1461-7
GRIFFITH(S), DAVID (1726 - 1816), cleric and schoolmaster As master of the grammar-school attached to Christ College, Brecon, he taught a group of distinguished men: Thomas Coke, Edward Davies ('Celtic Davies'), John Jones of Llandovery (the Greek lexicographer), Theophilus Jones, David Price (the Orientalist), and John Hughes of Brecon, who are all noticed in the present work. He was the son of Roger and Gwenllian Griffiths of the parish of S. Davids
GRIFFITH, EDWARD (1832 - 1918), antiquary
GRIFFITH, JOHN (fl. 1649-1669) Llanddyfnan, squire poet cywyddau is to be found among the Mostyn, Llanstephan and Henblas manuscripts in the National Library of Wales and the additional manuscripts in the British Museum. A staunch Churchman and Royalist, he was strongly antagonistic to the Puritan régime, as is evident from many of his compositions in the free metres. His elegies on Edward Wynne of Bodewryd and Mrs. Lumley Lloyd of Lligwy, both dated 1669
GRIFFITH, JOHN (Y Gohebydd; 1821 - 1877), newspaper correspondent, campaigner for education, and principal mover in re-establishing the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion prominent Liberals, for part of his work involved calling on the latter to get financial support for establishing British Schools in Wales. He made use of the knowledge thus gained when he came to write articles for the Cronicl published by his uncle, Samuel Roberts ('S.R.'). The articles were signed 'Wmffra Edward.' His first letter to Thomas Gee's Baner Cymru appeared in the third issue of that paper
GRIFFITH, Sir SAMUEL WALKER (1845 - 1920), judge Born at Merthyr Tydfil 21 June 1845, the son of Edward Griffith, minister of the English Independent church there (1842-5), and Mary, daughter of Peter Walker of Swansea. Sailing to Australia (1854) with his family, Edward Griffith later became pastor of the Congregational church in Ipswich, near Brisbane. After a brilliant career at the university of Sydney, Samuel Griffith was admitted, in 1867
GRIFFITHS, ANN (1776 - 1805), hymn-writer Born April 1776 at Dolwar Fach, Llanfihangel yng Ngwynfa, Montgomeryshire, (baptised 21 April 1776), daughter of John (died c. February 1804) and Jane Thomas (died 1794). Her parents were church-goers. They had five children: (1) Jane, 1767, (2) John, 1770, (3) Elizabeth, 1772, (4) Ann, and (5) Edward, 1779. An extensive study of the children (and their descendants) has been made by David Thomas
GRIFFITHS, EDWARD (1929 - 1995), industrial chemist and Member of Parliament
GRIFFITHS, EVAN (1778 - 1839), Calvinistic Methodist minister One of the eight ordained in North Wales in 1811. Born at Rhos-fawr near Meifod, Montgomeryshire, 12 March 1778, son of Edward Griffiths and his wife Margaret (Evans) - another of their sons was Thomas Griffiths, husband of the hymnist Ann Griffiths. The mother and her children removed to Ceunant, Meifod, where Evan began preaching in 1802. He died 6 September 1839. There is a memoir of him, by
GRUFFUDD ap LLYWELYN (bu farw 1063), king of Gwynedd and Powys, and after 1055 king of all Wales Gruffudd, and on 16 June a battle took place between them in the valley of the Machawy. Once again Gruffudd was victorious. Then, through the efforts of earl Harold, earl Leofric of Mercia, and Ealdred of Worcester, an agreement was reached and Gruffudd swore fealty to king Edward. About this time too Gruffudd married Ealdgyth, daughter of Aelfgar, and when Aelfgar was again exiled in 1058 Gruffudd, with
GRUFFUDD AP LLYWELYN (bu farw 1064), king of Gwynedd 1039-1064 and overlord of all the Welsh Mantes the nephew of King Edward the Confessor and they fought two miles from the town of Hereford. The battle on October 24 was a victory for Gruffudd and Ælfgar, whose troops plundered the town. In response, an army was assembled at Gloucester under the leadership of the king's brother-in-law Harold Godwinson, the brother of Gruffudd's former ally Sven. Harold pursued the pair, but Gruffudd and

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