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GRUFFYDD, ELIS (fl. c. 1490-1552), 'the soldier of Calais,' copyist, translator, and chronicler ' The Field of the Cloth of Gold,' near Calais, in 1521, when the emperor Charles V met Henry VIII, and also in the army of the duke of Suffolk (Sir Charles Brandon) during the campaign in France between July and Christmas 1523. From the beginning of 1524 until 1529 he was keeper of Sir Robert Wingfield's palace in London; and it was there that he copied what is now Cardiff Phillipps MS. 10823, a
GUEST, LADY CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH (1812 - 1895), translator, businesswoman and collector Charlotte's time in mid-century. She espoused various welfare schemes, stimulated by her cousin, the archaeologist, Henry Layard. The death of Sir John Guest in 1852 saw Lady Charlotte take on the running of the works as sole active trustee. The iron trade was by this period past its heyday and in the summer of 1853 Lady Charlotte had to deal with a strike in the works, a situation in which she found
GUTUN OWAIN (fl. c. 1460- c. 1498), poet, transcriber of manuscripts, and genealogist descent of king Henry VII. One old record makes Gutun contemporary with Edward IV. It has also been asserted that he accompanied Dafydd ab Edmwnd to the Carmarthen eisteddfod. If we were to accept Iolo Morganwg's date for this (1451), then Gutun must have been a mere lad at that time; but the date is very uncertain. Again, the dates ' 1455 ' and ' 1456 ' which have been assigned to one of Gutun's
GWEN ferch ELLIS (c. 1552 - 1594), first victim of execution for witchcraft in Wales Thomas Mostyn. Two of Jane Conway's sons were Puritan clergymen who published anti-witchcraft tracts - Henry Holland, author of A Treatise against Witchcraft (1590), and Robert Holland, author of the Welsh-language dialogue Dau Gymro yn taring yn bell o'u gwlad (c. 1595), the latter quite possibly intended to demonstrate the family's opposition to witchcraft following the trial of Gwen ferch Ellis
GWENT, RICHARD (bu farw 1543), archdeacon of London archbishop's commissary when Cranmer made his metropolitan visitation in 1534. He was prolocutor of convocation in 1536, 1540, and 1541, and was one of those appointed to inquire into the validity of the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves. Leland in his Encomia alludes to him as 'Richardus Ventanus juridicus' and speaks highly of his virtues and learning.
GWYN, JOHN (bu farw 1574), lawyer, placeman, and educational benefactor , Cambridge, in 1545, becoming B.A. in 1548, and was then elected Fellow of S. John's, where he took his M.A. in 1551 and LL.D. in 1560. When in 1551 Henry and Charles Brandon, dukes of Suffolk and members of the college, died of sweating sickness, Gwyn was among those who wrote commemoratory verses. He served as proctor in 1555-6, but the assertion by his nephew Sir John (in his The history of the Gwydir
GWYNFARDD BRYCHEINIOG (fl. c. 1180), poet the former. The awdl to the lord Rhys could have been written any time after 1172, the year when Henry II met Rhys ap Gruffydd and created him justiciar of South Wales and so a ' lord '. The awdl may have been composed in the year 1176, when the 'eisteddfod' took place at Cardigan, but there is no certainty about this; it may have been written at a later date.
teulu GWYNNE Kilvey daughter. When his friends applied for a pension for him in 1891 they pointed out that he had spent all his savings educating his sons. He died at Langland, 28 November 1907, and was buried in Oystermouth cemetery. Two sons achieved national fame: Rt. Rev. LLEWELLYN HENRY GWYNNE (1863 - 1957), bishop, Religion C.M.G. 1917; C.B.E. 1919; D.D. Glasgow 1919; LL.D. Cambridge, 1920; born Kilvey, 11 June 1863
GWYNNE, NADOLIG XIMENES (1832 - 1920), soldier and author Nadolig Ximenes Gwynne was born on 25 December 1832 at Glanbrân in the parish of Llanfair-ar-y-bryn, Carmarthenshire, the fifth of seven children of Lt-Col Sackville Henry Frederick Gwynne (1778-1836), the heir of Sackville Gwynne of Glanbrân, and his second wife, Sarah Antoinette (née Ximenes, or Simes, 1792-1888). His date of birth and his mother's maiden name account for his distinctive full
GWYNNETH, JOHN (1490? - 1562?), Roman Catholic priest and musician ordained, and held livings successively in Cheapside, London, and at Luton. At the same time he held the sinecure rectory of Clynnog-fawr, Caernarfonshire, to which he had been presented by Henry VIII. Although he had difficulty in getting himself instituted and subsequently was a complainant twice in chancery suits and once in the court of star chamber, over questions of tithe and other emoluments of
HALL, AUGUSTA (Lady Llanover), (Gwenynen Gwent; 1802 - 1896), patron of Welsh culture and inventor of the Welsh national costume with men like Henry Brinley Richards and Dr Joseph Parry. She commissioned harps to be gifted to deserving harpists, but also to gentry families and even the young Prince Albert, who was presented with a Welsh harp and a performance on it at Buckingham Palace in July 1843. Lady Llanover's advocacy of the triple harp was part of her concern for the continuation of Welsh folk traditions as part of
HALL, GEORGE HENRY (first Viscount Hall of Cynon Valley), (1881 - 1965), politician

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