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GRIFFITHS, JAMES (JEREMIAH) (1890 - 1975), Labour politician and cabinet minister He was born at Betws, Ammanford on 19 September 1890, the youngest of the ten children of William Griffiths, a colliery blacksmith, and Margaret Morris. One of his brothers was the celebrated Welsh poet Amanwy (David Rhys Griffiths, died December 1953). He attended Betws board school, Ammanford, 1896-1903, and spoke only Welsh until he was five years old. He began work in a local anthracite
GRIFFITHS, JOHN GWYNEDD (1911 - 2004), scholar, poet and Welsh nationalist and Society in honour of J. Gwyn Griffiths (ed. Alan B. Lloyd), which contains a bibliography of his writings to 1991. A matter of particular joy to him was the opening, in Swansea University in 1998, of the Egypt Centre, a permanent and purpose-built home for the Wellcome Collection of Egyptian Antiquities: he and Käthe Bosse-Griffiths had been instrumental in securing the collection for the
GRIFFITHS, THOMAS (JEREMY) (Tau Gimel; 1797? - 1871), Unitarian minister and schoolmaster and his family emigrated to the U.S.A. He was preaching at Caeronnen, 1846-51, and at Cribin and Ciliau, 1846-8. From 1851 to 1855 he was once more on his travels, but not this time to the U.S.A. He returned to his old neighbourhood and preached at Cribin from 1857 to 1868. He spent the autumn of his life at the home of his friend the Rev. David Evans of Maesymeillion. He died 19 January 1871 and
GRIFFITHS, VAVASOR (bu farw 1741), Independent minister and tutor in with the board's wishes, on condition that the academy should be removed, not indeed to Maesgwyn, but to Llwyn-llwyd, near Hay, and amalgamated with the school already kept there by David Price, minister of Maesyronnen, near Glasbury. The Congregational fund board joined in this scheme, paying Griffiths an extra £5 a year as pastor of Maesgwyn, over and above the £10 each which the two boards
GRONOW, DANIEL (bu farw 1796), Presbyterian minister , 319 - which calls him ' David Gronow ' and speaks of his 'imperfect' English). From 1782 till 1787, he was pastor of various churches in Yorkshire, but removed then to Alfreton, Derby., where he died in 1796.
GROSSMAN, YEHUDIT ANASTASIA (1919 - 2011), Jewish patriot and author could, simultaneously working for John Petts at Caseg Press in nearby Llanystumdwy. Yehudit meanwhile remained at his parents' home in Wardley, where their first son, David, was born in December 1947, before joining Jones at Bron-y-Foel in February 1948. In November 1949, she returned to Israel, taking David with her and spending six months there tutoring immigrants in the Hebrew language. Back in
GRUFFUDD AP LLYWELYN (bu farw 1064), king of Gwynedd 1039-1064 and overlord of all the Welsh began to look across the Irish Sea for aid. He was kidnapped by the Vikings of Dublin in 1042. According to the testimony of the Historie of Cambria by the sixteenth-century historian David Powel (who claimed that his ultimate source was a medieval Welsh chronicle), the abduction was organized by Iago's son Cynan, but it failed when the captives were freed by the Welsh while being led to the ship
GRUFFUDD ap NICOLAS (fl. 1415-1460), esquire and a leading figure in the local administration of the principality of South Wales in the middle of the 15th century , heiress of William Clement. He held sessions on behalf of duke Humphrey in the counties of Carmarthen and Cardigan. When the English inhabitants of North Wales towns petitioned Parliament in 1444, against the denization of more Welshmen, he and William Bulkeley were excepted by name. He was placed on a commission to enquire into felonies committed by David ap Meredith in Aberystwyth 2 July 1445. The
GRUFFUDD GRYG (fl. second half of the 14th century), bard wrote the elegy to Rhys ap Tudur, ' chief of Anglesey,' who was honoured by king Richard and appointed ' keeper of the stags of Snowdonia,' we must believe that the poet lived until the beginning of the next century, because Rhys died in 1412, at Arddreiniog, according to Rowlands (Archæologia Cambrensis, iv, 267) [but according to Panton MS. 23, he was executed at Chester; Lloyd, Owen Glendower, 154
GRUFFUDD LLWYD ap DAFYDD ab EINION LLYGLIW (fl. c. 1380-1410), a poet with Welsh literature and folklore, he was entertained at some of the famous courts of his period. His work includes poems to Owain Glyndŵr, Sir David Hanmer, Owain ap Maredudd of Neuadd Wen, and Hywel and Meurig Llwyd of Nannau, love and religious poetry, and it is now certain that he is the author of the poem to send the sun to greet Glamorgan, which has also been attributed to Iolo Goch and Dafydd
GRUFFYDD ap MADOG (bu farw 1191) Owain Gwynedd, and had two sons, Madog and Owen. He is called ' Gruffydd Maelor I ' to distinguish him from his grandson ' Gruffydd Maelor II,' who died 1269 (Lloyd, A History of Wales, 769).
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

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