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GRIFFITH(S), DAVID (1726 - 1816), cleric and schoolmaster As master of the grammar-school attached to Christ College, Brecon, he taught a group of distinguished men: Thomas Coke, Edward Davies ('Celtic Davies'), John Jones of Llandovery (the Greek lexicographer), Theophilus Jones, David Price (the Orientalist), and John Hughes of Brecon, who are all noticed in the present work. He was the son of Roger and Gwenllian Griffiths of the parish of S. Davids
GRIFFITH, DAVID (Clwydfardd; 1800 - 1894), eisteddfodic bard and arch-druid Born in Vale Street, Denbigh, 29 November 1800. Like his father, Richard Griffith, he was a watch- and clock-maker by trade. He was a powerful man physically and, as a Wesleyan lay preacher, (1827-94), frequently walked thirty miles to keep his Sunday engagements - at the age of eighty-four he walked to the top of Snowdon and back. He says: 'I was appointed Arch-druid … in 1860; but it was at
GRIFFITH, DAVID (1841 - 1910), schoolmaster, cleric, and diarist
GRIFFITH, DAVID (1792 or 1794 - 1873), Independent minister of Ebenezer, Deiniolen (of which he was the first minister, 1822-32) and Seilo, Portdinorwic, of which he was minister until 1851. He died 27 February 1873 and was buried in Bethel cemetery. In 1849 his eldest son, DAVID GRIFFITH (1823 - 1913), became joint minister with him of Seilo and Bethel; he was born in 1823 at Bryn, Llanfair-is-gaer, and was educated by the Rev. Griffith Hughes of Cefn
GRIFFITH, DAVID (1823 - 1913), Independent minister - gweler GRIFFITH, DAVID
GRIFFITH, DAVID - gweler GRIFFITHS, DAVID
GRIFFITH, EDMUND (1570 - 1637), bishop Born in 1570, the fourth son of Griffith ap John Griffith of Cefn Amwlch, Llŷn. Educated at Brasenose, Oxford (B.A. 1589; M.A. 1592; B.D. 1599), he became rector of Llandwrog 1596-1637, canon of Bangor 1600, sinecure rector of Llanfor, Meironnydd 1601, rector of Llanbedrog 1604, archdeacon of Bangor 1606, dean of Bangor 1613-33, and bishop of Bangor 1633-7. By his wife Gwen, daughter of Morris ap
GRIFFITH, EDMUND (1559 - 1617), rector - gweler GRIFFITH, EDMUND
GRIFFITH, EDWARD (1832 - 1918), antiquary Born at Barmouth 2 January 1832, son of David and Lowrie Griffith. His parents soon moved to Dolgelley to keep first the 'Crown' and then the 'Angel' inns. He had very little schooling, but learnt much in the two or three years he attended the British School, Dolgelley, where the headmaster was Daniel Evans, who had been promoted to the post when the school opened in 1840. At Dolgelley he
GRIFFITH, ELIZABETH (1727 - 1793), author Born in Glamorgan on 11 October 1727. Little is known of her before her marriage to Richard Griffith, an Irishman, c. 1752. Thereafter she acted on the Dublin and London stage and in 1757 published A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances, which was at once a novel and a selection in two volumes of correspondence between Richard Griffith and herself before marriage. She wrote many
GRIFFITH, ELLIS JONES - gweler ELLIS-GRIFFITH, Sir ELLIS JONES
GRIFFITH, GEORGE (1601 - 1666), bishop Born in 1601 at Penrhyn, Caernarfonshire (says T. F. Tout in D.N.B.). As a matter of fact, he was one of the Griffith family of Carreg Lwyd in Anglesey, member of a younger branch of the Griffiths of Penrhyn, possibly the most ecclesiastical house in the land: his grandfather was a rector, his uncle was a rector, two of his brothers were married to daughters of bishops, one of these brothers was

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