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GRUFFYDD, OWEN (c. 1643 - 1730), poet and antiquary written down by his friends from his dictation. He was buried at Llanystumdwy 6 December 1730. William Elias composed an elegy upon him.
GRUFFYDD, ROBERT GERAINT (1928 - 2015), Welsh scholar parents of the wayward eighteenth-century lexicographer and grammarian, William Owen Pughe. There was a fundamental difference in scholarly attitudes between Geraint and Pughe but nevertheless, in an inexplicable way, Geraint felt the call of scholarship and research in Egryn and he took pleasure in believing that his journey began there. After a few years the family moved to Pwllpeiran, Cwm Ystwyth, a
GRUFFYDD, WILLIAM JOHN (1881 - 1954), scholar, poet, critic and editor
teulu GUEST, iron-masters, coal owners, etc. his position as a partner in the company - holding one-sixteenth at his father's death, he obtained eight-sixteenths more on the death of his uncle William Taitt in 1815. By 1849 he had become sole proprietor, and the welfare of the large population of over 12,000 people depended entirely upon the use he made of the power thus entrusted to him; in this he was ably assisted by his wife, lady
GUEST, LADY CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH (1812 - 1895), translator, businesswoman and collector by the Rector, Evan Jenkins. Working with the Welsh clerics, notably Reverends Thomas Price ('Carnhuanawc') and John Jones ('Tegid') and drawing upon the research inspired by the Romantic revival and the translation work of William Owen Pughe who had recently died, Lady Charlotte began transcribing and translating into English eleven medieval Welsh tales (from the Llyfr Coch o Hergest / Red Book of
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
GWEN ferch ELLIS (c. 1552 - 1594), first victim of execution for witchcraft in Wales . When suspicious bailiffs visited her home, Gwen was discovered to be in possession of Catholic paraphernalia - a bell without a clapper, and a brass and tin depiction of Christ rising from the dead. In June 1594, Gwen was arrested on the authority of William Hughes, Bishop of St. Asaph, and imprisoned in Flint gaol. Though her case began before the ecclesiastical court, at Llansanffraid Church, it
GWYN, JOHN (bu farw 1574), lawyer, placeman, and educational benefactor law, but Griffith Wynn and his co-executor Dr. Henry Jones (see under William Awbrey) agreed to reduce the foundation to two Fellows and three scholars, the former to be chosen in the first instance by Griffith Wynn and afterwards by the college from among Gwyn scholars or from Friars or Ruthin school, the latter by Wynn and his heirs in consultation with the masters of Friars and Ruthin, failing
GWYNN, EIRWEN MEIRIONA (1916 - 2007), scientist, educator and author Eirwen Meiriona St. John Williams was born at 99 Shiel Road, Newsham Park, Liverpool, on 1 December 1916. (A family story tells that 12 December was recorded by her father, in order to avoid a fine for late registration of the birth.) Eirwen was the eldest of the two children of William (St.) John Williams (1886-1957) and his wife Annie (née Williams, 1885-1969). Her brother, Gwilym Gareth (Gari
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, NADOLIG XIMENES (1832 - 1920), soldier and author Cardiff, 1849; died Bournemouth, 1930), the daughter of George William Collins Jackson and Catherine Price Lewis. They had no children. Nadolig Ximenes Gwynne died in Bournemouth on 9 May 1920, aged 87.
GWYNNE, ROBERT (JOHNS) (fl. 1568-1591), Roman Catholic missioner and writer suggested as the possible author of the savage marwnad on the death of William the Silent, also attributed to Richard Gwyn. In 1578, when no Romanist bishops were left at liberty in England, pope Gregory XIII conferred on him certain quasi-episcopal powers to bridge the gap. Nothing is known of his later life, except that he seems to have been alive in 1591.

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565 - 576 of 1882 for "William Glyn"