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GRIFFITHS, JOHN POWELL (1875 - 1944), minister (Baptist) and schoolmaster Alderman Davies School in Neath and then went to the 'Sawel Academy' conducted by the Reverend Jonah Evans in Llansawel. It is said that it was there that he developed his interest in the classics. In 1894 he was admitted to the South Wales Baptist which had recently moved from Pontypool to Cardiff. The President of the College, Dr William Edwards, who was already translating the New Testament into Welsh
GRIFFITHS, JOHN THOMAS (1824 - 1895), mining engineer
GRIFFITHS, SAMUEL (1783 - 1860), Independent minister
GRIFFITHS, THOMAS (1645 - 1725) Delaware, first minister of the Welsh Tract Baptist church
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 We possess very few verifiable details of his life. The earliest definite date is 1711, when he was at the academy kept by Samuel Jones (died 1719) at Tewkesbury; a letter by the future archbishop Secker (Gibbons, Memoirs of Isaac Watts, 346), speaks highly of Griffiths's linguistic attainments, adding 'he seems to be not much under 40. Secker may well have over-estimated Griffiths's age; but on
GRIFFITHS, WILLIAM (1788 - 1861), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 21 December 1788 at Blaenbrwynen, Clydau, Pembrokeshire, son of Thomas and Mary Griffiths. In 1807 he was compelled to enlist in the militia; in the course of his military service he came under the influence of the Methodists, whom he joined. On his release from the army he kept a school in his native parish for a time. In 1814 he began to preach at Bwlch-y-groes. In 1817 the Association, at
GRIFFITHS, WINIFRED MAIR (1916 - 1996), minister (Cong) and headmistress grandfathers had married a young woman from Dolannog, named Ann Thomas - who came to be known as Ann Griffiths, the hymn writer. Mair's mother was the daughter of the Reverend and Mrs. R. O. Jones, the minister of the Congregational Churches at Moreia, Bedlinog, and Graig. Mair was educated at the Cardiff Secondary School, and the University College of South Wales and Monmouth, where she graduated B.A. with
GRONOW, DANIEL (bu farw 1796), Presbyterian minister even then an orthodox Calvinist. In 1769, he was called to the newly-founded Independent church at Bala (Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru, i, 406-7), where he worked hard, founding a new church at Tyn-y-bont and holding services at Llandderfel. He succeeded Thomas Evans (1714? - 1779) in 1780 at Mixenden, Yorkshire; during his short stay there, he was a Unitarian (Miall, Congregationalism in Yorkshire
GROSSMAN, YEHUDIT ANASTASIA (1919 - 2011), Jewish patriot and author journals (including Llais Llyfrau, Planet, Tafod y Ddraig, Taliesin, and Barn), and as a broadcaster (for example to the BBC Home Service). She used the experience of being raised in Palestine and of her youth there to stimulate change in Wales. At times, the nationalist establishment, led by Plaid Cymru and its president, Gwynfor Evans, was uncomfortable with this association, especially in the wake of
GRUFFUDD ap MAREDUDD ap DAFYDD (fl. 1352-1382), poet 1382), and Syr Hywel y Fwyall (died c. 1381), and he could be most aptly called the household or family bard of the house of Penmynydd (see under Ednyfed Fychan). It is not improbable that he composed the exceptional ode inviting Owain Lawgoch (Owain ap Thomas ap Rhodri) to recover his patrimony. He excels in his love poems. In one instance he makes for his beloved's home at Tref Lywarch on a
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 THOMAS escheator for Cardiganshire. In 1442-3, he again came to the notice of the authorities in London, when he and the abbot of Whitland were summoned to the metropolis and the Privy Council ordered the arrest of his son Owen. Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, was his patron, and he received, 24 July 1443, the custody of the lordship of Caron and the commote of Pennarth during the minority of Maud

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