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FYNES-CLINTON, OSBERT HENRY (1869 - 1941), Professor of French and Romance Philology at the University College of North Wales, Bangor position which he held until 1937 when he retired and was appointed Professor Emeritus. A brilliant linguist, he devoted his leisure hours to a meticulous study of the Arfon dialect of Welsh, and in 1913 published The Welsh Vocabulary of the Bangor District, which secured for him a place of honour in the history of Welsh linguistics, being the only comprehensive phonetic study of the vocabulary of a
GALLIE, MENNA PATRICIA (1919 - 1990), writer Strike, in fictional Cilhendre, although this time in the late 1940s. To get an idea of what actual mining was like, Menna Gallie spent two eight-hour shifts underground alongside miners. Her years in Northern Ireland proved both formative and productive. She and Bryce lived in a beautiful house near a lough on the Castleward Estate outside Belfast, where her nearest neighbour was Viscountess Bangor
GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS (1146? - 1223), archdeacon of Brecon and mediaeval Latin writer Bangor and Llandaff in Wales and those of Ferns and Leighlin in Ireland, but his mind was set upon that of S. Davids. Peter of Lee died 16 July 1198, but once again the king and the archbishop of Canterbury objected to the appointment of Gerald as bishop to succeed him, even though he was the chosen favourite of the chapter. From being a struggle for the appointment of Gerald as bishop, the conflict
GLYN, WILLIAM (1504 - 1558), bishop and others. Appointed bishop of Bangor, 1555, he enforced Catholic doctrines at regular synods of his clergy. There is no evidence of persecution in his diocese, and his tolerance towards married clergy may have been due to the fact that his own father and grandfather were priests; he himself had a son (Gruffydd Glyn of Pwllheli, sheriff of Caernarvonshire, 1563-1564). Glyn died 21 May 1558. His
GLYNNE, MARY DILYS (1895 - 1991), plant pathologist Mary Dilys Glynne was born at Glyndyl, Menai Avenue, Upper Bangor on 19 February 1895, the youngest daughter of the five surviving children of John Glynne Jones (1849-1947), solicitor, and his wife Dilys Lloyd Glynne Jones (née Davies, 1857-1932). Her father's family home was Tyddyn Isaf (Cymryd) in the parish of Y Gyffin near Conwy. Her mother was one of the London Welsh, daughter of the
GORONWY GYRIOG (fl. c. 1310-1360), poet Father, apparently, of the poet Iorwerth ab y Cyriog. No details are known concerning him, but examples of his work are found in the ' Red Book of Hergest ' and other manuscripts. They include an awdl addressed to Madog ab Iorwerth, bishop of Bangor, and an elegy to Gwenhwyfar, wife of Hywel ap Tudur of Anglesey (brother to Goronwy of Penmynydd). It appears that he was also the author of at least
GREEN, CHARLES ALFRED HOWELL (1864 - 1944), second Archbishop of Wales was ordained deacon in 1888 and priest in 1889, and served as curate and subsequently (1893) vicar of Aberdare until his appointment as canon of Llandaff Cathedral and Archdeacon of Monmouth in 1914. On the formation of the diocese of Monmouth in 1921 he became its first bishop, and was translated to Bangor in 1928. On the retirement of A.G. Edwards in 1934 he was elected Archbishop of Wales, which
GREENLY, EDWARD (1861 - 1951), geologist was awarded the Lyell Medal of the Geological Soc. in 1920, the Medal of the Liverpool Geol. Soc. in 1933. He was made D.Sc. hon. causa Un. of Wales in 1920. He died at Bangor 4 March 1951.
GRESHAM, COLIN ALASTAIR (1913 - 1989), archaeologist, historian and author courteous and unassuming way, to a number of cultural societies and institutions, e.g. the Cambrian Archaeological Association, the Caernarfonshire (hon. excavations officer) and Merionethshire Historical Societies (he was a vice-president of both), and the Ancient Monuments Board for Wales. As well as being a member of some Bangor diocesan committees (he made a valuable and specialist contribution in
teulu GRIFFITH PENRHYN, was a correspondent of Thomas Cromwell, mainly in connection with his feud with Richard Bulkeley of Beaumaris; he paid Cromwell an annuity of ten marks for some years and attempted, unsuccessfully, to gain possession of the Dominican friary at Bangor after its dissolution. He was probably the Edward Griffith who, as yeoman of the guard, was granted a water-mill in the lordship of Denbigh in 1537. He
teulu GRIFFITH Cefn Amwlch, Penllech, Llŷn before March 1628. Another son, Edmund Griffith I, became dean of Bangor in 1613 and was promoted to the bishopric in 1633. It was during the lifetime of JOHN GRIFFITH I and particularly of his son, JOHN GRIFFITH II, that the star of Cefn Amwlch rose to the ascendant with the successful challenging of the supremacy of the Wynn family of Gwydir and their allies in Caernarvonshire. A graduate (1609) of
teulu GRIFFITH Carreg-lwyd, . in 1627. In turn, he became chancellor of the dioceses of Bangor and S. Asaph, master of the rolls (in Wales), and in 1631 was appointed a master in chancery. He married Mary (died 1645), daughter of John Owen, bishop of Bangor, and died of the plague on 17 October 1648. His youngest brother was George Griffith (1601 - 1666), bishop of St Asaph.

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