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GRIFFITH, OWEN (Eryr Eryri; 1839 - 1903), musician Born 12 August 1839 at Penllyn, near Cwm-y-glo, Caernarfonshire, the son of Griffith Owen, a good musician and conductor of the Llan-rug band. He joined the Waun-fawr choir and received some instruction in music from its conductor, Pierce Williams. When the latter relinquished the leadership of the choir in 1866 Owen Griffith succeeded him. Under his leadership this choir was successful at many
GRIFFITH, RICHARD (Carneddog; 1861 - 1947), poet, writer, and journalist widely read over a number of years. He contributed articles and notes to Cymru, Bye-Gones, etc., wrote biographies of Richard Jones Owen ('Glaslyn'), Richard Morris ('Yr Hên Lanc'), ' Tegfelyn ', and John Jones ('Jac Glanygors'); he prepared three selections for reciters (he often adjudicated in eisteddfodau) and also published Blodau'r Gynghanedd, Cerddi Eryri, and Ceinion y Cwm. He had an
GRIFFITH, ROBERT ARTHUR (Elphin; 1860 - 1936), author and lawyer Born at Caernarvon, 1860, son of John Owen Griffith (Ioan Arfon) and Ann (formerly Roberts). He was educated at the Liverpool institute and University College, Aberystwyth. For many years he practised as a solicitor at Bangor. He became a barrister of the Middle Temple in 1903, joining the North Wales and Chester circuit. In 1915 he became stipendiary magistrate for Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare, a
GRIFFITH, ROGER (bu farw 1708), Presbyterian minister and tutor, afterwards archdeacon He seems to have been born at Abergavenny. In 1690-2 he was being supported by the 'Common Fund' (Presbyterian and Congregational) at Bishop's Hall, Bethnal Green, where Charles Owen was a fellow-student. Griffith then (1693) went to Utrecht university, again at the charges of the fund. In or about 1695 he became minister at Abergavenny; and in 1697, on the death of Samuel Jones (1628 - 1697) of
GRIFFITH, WILLIAM (1719 - 1782), farmer of Drws-y-coed Uchaf, at the head of Nantlle Vale, from 1744 till his death; known to Goronwy Owen, to Margaret Davies, of Coedcae-du, and to David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri as a man of literary tastes, is also noteworthy because his house was the centre of the Moravian mission in Northwest Wales from 1768 to 1776 - see under David Williams (1702 - 1779), David Mathias, and John Morgan (1743
GRIFFITH-JONES, WILLIAM (1895 - 1961), Independent minister and administrator Born at Deiniolen, Caernarfonshire, 2 November 1895, the son of David and Mary Jones, members of Ebenezer Independent Chapel. The ministers at Ebenezer, J. Dyfnallt Owen and E. Wyn Jones, had a great influence on the young Griffith-Jones. When the family moved to Liverpool, he joined the English church in Great George St. During World War I, he served for two and a half years in Salonica, 1916-19
GRIFFITHS, ANN (1776 - 1805), hymn-writer , Ann Griffiths a'i theulu (1963). Jane married in 1794 Thomas Jones, Ty Cornel shop, Llanfyllin, and her grandson John Jones's daughter Margaret Jane Jones was the wife of the minister and writer Owen Jones (1833 - 1899); she died in January 1909. As a girl she was fond of a gay life but sobered down after hearing Benjamin Jones (1756 - 1823) of Pwllheli preach. She joined the Methodist society at
GRIFFITHS, DAVID ROBERT (1915 - 1990), Baptist minister and Biblical scholar Messianic Eclogue into Welsh in the National Eisteddfod in Cardiff. His translation appeared in Cerddi o'r Lladin, edited by his brother J. Gwyn Griffiths and published by the University of Wales Press in 1962. In 1944, he married Gladys Owen, born in Pontllan-fraith, daughter of John Owen, principal of the college in Caerleon. They had one daughter, Petra. Gladys Griffiths had graduated in French from
GRIFFITHS, JOHN (1820 - 1897), cleric and educationalist with Sir Hugh Owen and others in their efforts to reform the national eisteddfod. He was a convincing preacher and a popular platform speaker, and high tribute is paid to his gifts as a conciliator. He married, first Mary, daughter of Caleb Lewis of Cardigan; she died in 1880, and subsequently, in 1882, Jennet Matilda Morgan of Coed Ffranc, Glamorganshire. He. died 1 September 1897 and was buried at
GRIST, IAN (1938 - 2002), Conservative politician by the Labour candidate. In the general election of 1992, as widely anticipated even by himself, he lost the seat to the Labour candidate Jon Owen Jones - part of the electoral shrivelling of the Conservative Party in Wales. Tall, genial and generally very popular, Ian Grist was a PPS, 1979-81, to Nicholas Edwards, the Secretary of State for Wales, but he resigned after two years in the post. He
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
GRUFFUDD GRYG (fl. second half of the 14th century), bard wrote the elegy to Rhys ap Tudur, ' chief of Anglesey,' who was honoured by king Richard and appointed ' keeper of the stags of Snowdonia,' we must believe that the poet lived until the beginning of the next century, because Rhys died in 1412, at Arddreiniog, according to Rowlands (Archæologia Cambrensis, iv, 267) [but according to Panton MS. 23, he was executed at Chester; Lloyd, Owen Glendower, 154

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