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GIBBON, JAMES MORGAN (1855 - 1932), Independent minister bodies in Wales and Monmouthshire (1910). He refused to sign its report, and at the request of the Free Churches, through F. B. Meyer, published a book explaining his point of view: Weighed in the Balance: The Case for Welsh Disestablishment, with a foreword by D. Lloyd George, 1910. He was chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales (1913-14). He published: The Epistle to the Galatians
GIBSON, JOHN (1790 - 1866), sculptor sculpture under Canova and Thorwaldsen, and carried out commissions for the duke of Devonshire, Sir George Beaumont, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, and other leading art patrons of the period. Most of the remainder of his life was spent at Rome, although he visited England in 1844 in connection with the erection of his statue of Huskisson at Liverpool, and again in 1850 and 1851 to model the statue of the
GIFFORD, ISABELLA (c. 1825 - 1891), botanist and algologist Isabella Gifford was born in south Wales (Swansea according to one source, Defynnog, Breconshire, according to other sources) around 1825. She was the daughter of George St John Gifford (died 1869), who served with Sir John Moore in the battle of A Coruña in 1809, and his wife Isabella (died 1891), who were married in 1824. Her mother, Isabella, was the daughter of the industrialist John Christie
GILDAS (fl. 6th cent), monk , Mommsen, and J. E. Lloyd was that Gildas reckoned his four and fortieth year from the time of the battle of Badon, the year in which he was born. Mommsen thought, however, that the words 'ut novi' made no sense and he offered in place of them the reading - 'est ab eo qui.' But it would seem that the words 'ut novi' are essential for understanding the concluding clause. There is another explanation which
GITTINS, CHARLES EDWARD (1908 - 1970), educationalist ' and that 'Society owes it equally to all its members'. He was made C.B.E. in 1968. He married on 28 December 1934, Margaret Anne, daughter of John Lloyd Davies and Eliza Mary (née Wheale), in Llanfaredd church, Radnorshire, and they had a son and daughter. He died as the result of an accident during a fishing trip at Oxwich Bay on 6 August 1970, and was cremated following a funeral service at St
GIVVONS, ALEXANDER (1913 - 2002), rugby player later loose forward for Oldham from 1933 to 1949 (with a break between 1944 and 1948 where he played for Huddersfield). He earned six caps for Wales between 1936 and 1939, and was the second Black player to represent Wales in Rugby League (after George Bennett, also from Newport, in 1935), finishing on the winning side in all six games. He also toured France twice with the Great Britain Rugby League
teulu GLYN Glynllifon, . HWLKIN LLOYD, Tudur's son, held the town of Caernarvon for the king under William de Tranmere in 1403, and died the following year. MEREDYDD LLOYD, his son, was bailiff of Uwch Gwyrfai in 1413-15, and accompanied some forces sent to protect Guernsey in 1456. The next heir, ROBERT AP MEREDYDD [died c. 1509 ] was twice married, each wife being a member of English families who administered Gwynedd for the
teulu GLYNNE GLYNNE (1709 - 1730), 5th baronet, who died unmarried, at Aix-la-Chapelle, one month after attaining his majority, and was succeeded by his brother Sir JOHN GLYNNE (1713 - 1777), 6th baronet, who matriculated from Queen's College, Oxford, 13 November 1730, and was made D.C.L., 7 July 1763. He is reputed to have spent £35,000 in his unsuccessful election contest with Sir George Wynne for the borough of
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
GOODWIN, GERAINT (1903 - 1941), author The son of Richard and Mary Jane Goodwin, he was born at Llanllwchaearn, Montgomeryshire, 1 May 1903. He attended Towyn County School, and from 1922 to 1938 lived by journalism and authorship in London. In 1932 he married Rhoda Margaret, daughter of Harold Storey. His first books were Conversations with George Moore (1929) and the semi-autobiographical Call Back Yesterday (1935). He then turned
GORE, WILLIAM GEORGE ARTHUR ORMSBY - gweler ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM GEORGE ARTHUR
GRENFELL, DAVID RHYS (1881 - 1968), Labour politician always answered supplementary questions in the House of Commons with great thoroughness and detail. But it was Major Gwilym Lloyd-George who was chosen as the senior minister to head the new Ministry of Fuel and Power formed in the summer of 1942. Nor, to general surprise, was Grenfell appointed to any official position in the post-1945 Attlee administration, and on occasion he was quite capable of

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