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GOODMAN, GABRIEL (1528 - 1601), dean of Westminster and founder of Christ's Hospital, Ruthin Born 1528, second son of Edward Goodman (died 1560) of Ruthin. He was educated at Cambridge (B.A. 1550, M.A. 1553, D.D. 1564); was Fellow of Christ's College, 1552-4, and of Jesus College, c. 1554-5. About 1555 he entered the service of William Cecil, later lord Burghley, as chaplain. A sympathizer with the religious settlement of Edward VI, he compromised under Mary and fully accepted the
GOODWIN, JOHN (1681 - 1763) North Wales, Quaker minister Born 1681, possibly the son of Thomas Goodwin (formerly of Llanidloes) who was a member of the group of Friends who worshipped at Dolobran, Montgomeryshire. He joined, c. 1708, the Friends at Llangurig, Montgomeryshire, and became an active worker, the field of his ministry extending from Llangurig to the lower slopes of Aran Benllyn, Aran Fawddwy, and Cader Idris. In his middle age he frequently
GORONWY GYRIOG (fl. c. 1310-1360), poet
GOUGH, JETHRO (1903 - 1979), Professor of pathology status was upgraded from assistant lecturer to lecturer in pathology. During the 1930s Gough's main research interests related to the metabolism of Vitamin C and the histology of brain tumours, but as his post mortem work brought him into constant contact with the health problems of the south Wales miners, he became increasingly interested, from the late 1930s, in the study of pulmonary pathology in
GOUGH, MATHEW (c. 1390 - 1450), soldier He was born c. 1390. A native of Maelor, in the lower valley of the Dee. His father was Owen Gough, bailiff of the manor of Hanmer; his mother was a daughter of David Hanmer, the nurse of John, lord Talbot, afterwards earl of Shrewsbury. Of the many Welshmen who fought in France during the latter part of the hundred years' war none won greater distinction than Mathew Gough. His name appears in
GOWER, Sir ERASMUS (1742 - 1814), admiral captain under Rodney, and from 1786 till 1788 served off Newfoundland. He was knighted in 1792 and sent to convoy H.M. Ambassador (Macartney) to China. Further service (notably under Cornwallis in 1795) led to rear-admiral's rank (1799); in 1804 he became vice-admiral. After a term (1804-7) as c.-in-c. and governor of Newfoundland, he retired and was made admiral in 1809. He died at Hambledon
teulu GREY (POWIS, lords of), Sir JOHN GRAY or GREY, of Heton, Northumberland (c. 1385 - 1421), married Joan, elder daughter and coheiress of Sir Edward Cherleton, lord of Powis (died 1421). In her right, he, for a few months, enjoyed half the lordship of Pool. When Sir John Oldcastell (Oldcastle), otherwise known as lord Cobham, was taken from hiding at Broniarth in 1417 by Ieuan and Griffith Vaughan, and handed over to
teulu GRIFFITH PENRHYN, The family was perhaps the first in North Wales to emerge as the owners of a modern landed estate. They claimed descent from Ednyfed Fychan through his son Tudur. The conventional pedigrees attribute the acquisition of Penrhyn and Cochwillan (see Williams of Cochwillan) to the marriage (c. 1300-1310) of Griffith ap Heilyn ap Tudur ab Ednyfed Fychan (died c. 1340) to Eva, daughter and heiress of
teulu GRIFFITH Carreg-lwyd, This family was descended from Ednyfed Fychan. EDMUND GRIFFITH of Porth yr Aur, Caernarvon, was the third son of William Griffith Fychan of Penrhyn, in the county of Caernarvon. He married Janet, daughter of Maredudd ap Ieuan ap Robert, the great-grandfather of Sir John Wynn the most notable of the house of Gwydir. Their fourth son was WILLIAM GRIFFITH (c. 1516 - 1587), who became rector of
GRIFFITH, SIDNEY (bu farw 1752), Methodist and associate of Howel Harris Daughter of Cadwaladr Wynne of Voelas, Ysbyty Ifan (see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 326; her christian name came from her grandmother Sidney Thelwall of Plas-y-ward, Ruthin); married William Griffith of Cefn Amwlch, c. 1741 (her son was born in 1742). Her husband was a boor and a drunkard, and her life with him was unhappy. In 1746, a sermon by Peter Williams (1723 - 1796) brought her into
teulu GRIFFITH Garn, Plasnewydd, of this family were poets, viz. Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan (died 1532), and his son Gruffydd ap Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan (c. 1485 - 1553); the father lived at Llannerch, in the township of Llewenni, Denbighshire, a house afterwards associated with the Davies family, of Llannerch and Gwysaney. A ' Cowydd i'r Crud ' by him is in NLW MS 3048D. T. A. Glenn, who could not (in 1934) accept some of the
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

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