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GRIFFITH, Sir SAMUEL WALKER (1845 - 1920), judge , as a barrister-at-law of the supreme court of Queensland. In 1872 he entered Parliament, became premier in 1883, and was in the Legislative Assembly for twenty-one years. In 1893 he was appointed chief justice of Queensland. His polemical life centered around two issues, the overthrow of pastoralist oligarchy and the preservation of white Australia, the latter issue being occasioned by the
GRIFFITHS, WILLIAM (1898 - 1962), llyfrwerthwr fel Jeffrey Pulver a Harold Fairhurst. Yr oedd yn chwaraewr medrus a bu'n chwarae'n broffesiynol hyd tuag 1931. Yna ymunodd â Chwmni Foyle, y llyfrwerthwyr, Heol Charing Cross, a bu'n gyfrifol am adran Gymreig y cwmni am ryw bedair blynedd ar ddeg. Yn 1946 cymerodd at siop yn Cecil Court (Leicester Square) lle y sefydlodd, gyda'i dri brawd, fusnes llyfrau Cymreig, menter llwyddiannus a wnaeth y siop
GRIFFITHS, WILLIAM (1898 - 1962), bookseller from teachers such as Jeffrey Pulver and Harold Fairhurst. He was a skilful violinist and played professionally until about 1931. He then joined Foyles, the booksellers in Charing Cross Road, where he was responsible for its Welsh department for about fourteen years. In 1946 he opened his own shop in Cecil Court (Leicester Square) where he established a Welsh bookshop with his three brothers. This
GRUFFUDD ap LLYWELYN (bu farw 1063), king of Gwynedd and Powys, and after 1055 king of all Wales the help of Magnus Haroldson, assisted him in regaining his lands. The close alliance between Gruffudd and Aelfgar ensured security for Wales, but towards the close of the year 1062, when Aelfgar had died, earl Harold without warning fell upon Gruffudd's court at Rhuddlan, but Gruffudd made good his escape. In 1063 Gruffudd was slain 'through the treachery of his own men,' according to ' Brut y
GRUFFUDD AP LLYWELYN (bu farw 1064), king of Gwynedd 1039-1064 and overlord of all the Welsh with a fleet from Bristol to subdue the coast while his brother Tostig led an army into Wales. Gruffudd had fled to Ireland where he was killed on 5 August 1064 by Cynan ab Iago, whose plot to kidnap Gruffudd had failed in 1042. Gruffudd's death was announced at the English court with the presentation of his head and the figure-head from his ship. Gwynedd and Powys were divided between his maternal
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 fall of his patron in 1447 brought him into trouble, and he was imprisoned with other members of duke Humphrey's retinue. He was soon released and managed to retain the confidence of the court, continuing to act for the Justice of South Wales and, occasionally, for the chamberlain. John Delabere, bishop of S. Davids, 1447- c. 1460, committed his bishopric to his care, and the duke of York obtained
GRUFFYDD LLWYD Sir (bu farw 1335), traditional hero of a supposed Welsh revolt in 1322 of the king's own household. He remained true to this loyalist upbringing: he was already a knight when in 1301 he did homage to Edward of Caernarvon as the new prince of Wales, and he became a member of the prince's household. Ten years after his own death, Gruffydd was still spoken of in North Wales as 'a man of the court.' From 1297 to 1314 he was in effect the king's continual commissioner of
GRUFFYDD, ROBERT GERAINT (1928 - 2015), Welsh scholar of the court poets of the princes of medieval Wales is a worthy memorial to his inspiring leadership. He retired in 1993 and was appointed Honorary Senior Fellow that year. A festschrift, Beirdd a Thywysogion: barddoniaeth llys yng Nghymru, Iwerddon a'r Alban (eds Morfydd E. Owen and Brynley F. Roberts), was published in 1996. The subject of his PhD dissertation was a challenging one. It
GRUFFYDD, WILLIAM JOHN (1881 - 1954), scholar, poet, critic and editor reform of the Eisteddfod was taken in hand in 1935 and the Court and the Council established, Gruffydd played a prominent part in the discussions, and henceforth he was closely associated with the Eisteddfod, not only as adjudicator (of the crown poem usually) but also as a member of the Council and as President of the Court from 1945 until his death. Gruffydd wrote three plays- Beddau'r Proffwydi
GUTUN OWAIN (fl. c. 1460- c. 1498), poet, transcriber of manuscripts, and genealogist thought) that the poet was alive even in 1500. An anonymous elegy upon him speaks of the brevity of his life, and it seems likely enough that he did not live into the 16th century. Gutun Owain was a master craftsman in verse. All his poetry is 'court poetry'; there are cywyddau of petition or of portrayal (dyfalu), of panegyric or of elegy. Closely following the precepts laid down in the professional
GWALCHMAI ap MEILYR (fl. 1130-1180), court poet Archaiology of Wales is the work of his son, Meilyr. In one of the poems to Owain Gwynedd there is internal evidence that Gwalchmai was the son of Meilyr, court poet to Gruffudd ap Cynan (The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 144b, 16-17 - 'My father sang the praises of his powerful royal father'). The two references in Gwalchmai's poems to the fact that he sang to Cadwallawn, son of Gruffudd ap Cynan, prove
GWRTHEYRN were told by the cyfarwyddiaid, i.e. professional storytellers; the one tale a product of the court, the other a product of the church. According to the former tale, Gwrtheyrn, in order that he might have Hengist's daughter to wife, gave the Saxons the land of Kent. When he saw how the Saxons were increasing in number, he became afraid, wandered, and sought a place in Eryri (Snowdonia) where he could

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