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GALLIE, MENNA PATRICIA (1919 - 1990), writer and just five days before he left for the war, reaching the rank of major and winning the Croix de Guerre. In his absence, Menna Gallie based herself in Llandudno and London working for the Inland Revenue. When Bryce returned to his lecturing post at Swansea, the couple moved to Ystradgynlais where their two children Charles and Edyth were born. Although Menna Gallie's father was not a miner, and
teulu GAMBOLD . Born 10 April 1711 at Puncheston, he matriculated 10 October 1726 from Christ Church, where he came to know Charles Wesley and became one of the 'Oxford Methodists.' He graduated in 1730, was ordained in 1733, and in 1735 was appointed vicar of Stanton Harcourt (near Oxford); but in 1739 he met Zinzendorff and began to lean towards Moravianism. Resigning his living in 1742, he married in 1743 and
GEORGE, THOMAS NEVILLE (1904 - 1980), Professor of Geology ), ScD (Cantab, 1970); and being presented with the Lyell Medal (Geological Society of London, 1963), Clough Medal (Edinburgh Geological Society, 1973), Kelvin Prize (Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, 1975), Neill Medal (Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1978), and medal of Charles University (Prague). He served as Associate Editor for the Royal Society, and was author of: Evolution in Outline (1951
GIBSON-WATT, JAMES DAVID (BARON GIBSON-WATT), (1918 - 2002), Member of Parliament and public figure of 70. He married Diana Hambro, the second daughter of Sir Charles Hambro, Chairman of Hambro's Bank Ltd., on 10 January 1942 and they had three sons and two daughters; their eldest son, Jamie, died on 24 October 1946 at the age of three. Diana Gibson-Watt died in August 2000. Lord Gibson-Watt died at Doldowlod on 7 February 2002. The funeral was a private family occasion and a public memorial
GIFFORD, ISABELLA (c. 1825 - 1891), botanist and algologist visitor recorded his visit to her parents at Minehead; the botanist and archaeologist Charles Cardale Babington (1808-1895) called to have tea with Captain and Mrs Gifford on the evening of 2 July 1849. When he returned there again the following summer, he also noted the name of 'Miss Gifford' in his diary. Isabella was clearly beginning to attract the attention of experts in the field which most
GILLHAM, MARY ELEANOR (1921 - 2013), naturalist and educator Mary Gillham was born in Ealing on 26 November 1921, the daughter of wood- and metal-work teacher Charles Thomas Gillham (1890-1974) and professional dressmaker Edith Gertrude (née Husband, 1887-1975) and sister to John Charles Gillham (1917-2009). Despite living within London the family were keen campers and would regularly travel out into the countryside on weekends and holidays. This, with
GITTINS, CHARLES EDWARD (1908 - 1970), educationalist Born in Rhostyllen, near Wrexham, Denbighshire, 24 January 1908, son of Charles Thomas and Frances (née Rabbit) Gittins. He was educated at Rhostyllen Infants School, 1911-15, Bersham Boys' School, 1915-20, Grove Park County School for Boys, Wrexham, 1920-25 and at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1925-31. He entered energetically into student life at Aberystwyth, and became
GLASCOTT, CRADOCK (1743 - 1831), Evangelical cleric who also became a minister in lady Huntingdon's connexion. He was the son of Thomas Glascott of Cardiff; and Charles Wesley (and perhaps John Wesley and Whitefield) had stayed at his home - 'I lodged at Mr. Glascott's' (Charles Wesley, Journal, i, 255, 6 November 1740). In the Calvinistic controversy (1740-1) the Cardiff Society sided with Wesley. Cradock went to Jesus College, Oxford (Foster
teulu GLYN Glynllifon, Restoration he won the favour of Charles II who made him a baronet in 1662 [see Glynne of Hawarden family ]. Sir John Glynne died in 1666. His brother, EDMUND GLYNNE Born 1615, was active in the support of the commonwealth, and as J.P. served his county well before and after the Restoration. Thomas Glyn was succeeded at Glynllifon by his son JOHN GLYNNE (fl. 1644-69), who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir
teulu GLYNNE successfully sought the favour in turn of Cromwell and of king Charles II. During the Commonwealth he held the various offices of serjeant at law, judge of assize, and Lord Chief Justice of the Upper Bench. Adhering to the Presbyterian party from 1645, he incurred the ill-favour of the army, and on a charge of treason he was expelled from the House and committed to the Tower, 8 September 1647, where he
GODWIN, JUDITH (bu farw 1746), one of Howel Harris's correspondents Vavasor Griffiths and Lewis Rees; she was also an early and close friend of Howel Harris and of his family - we have nearly forty letters which passed between her and Harris. She was pietistic, and was strongly prejudiced against John and Charles Wesley. She died at Watford, Hertfordshire, 25 January 1746.
GOLDSWAIN, BRYNLEY VERNON (1922 - 1983), rugby league player Community Home, Newton-le-Willows, a residential school for young offenders on the outskirts of Liverpool. He married Margaret Magdalen Muriel Vaughan (1921-2000) at St. Michael's Church, Aberystwyth on July 24, 1942. In the church register Goldswain's address is given as 15 Morgans Street, Abercrave, and his spouse was a daughter of Roderick Charles Vaughan, a postman, of 8 Gogerddan Cottages

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