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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, ROBERT DAVID (1877 - 1958), musician and historian of Welsh congregational singing Born 19 May 1877, in Cwm-y-glo, Caernarfonshire, son of Richard Griffith, a slate quarryman, and Jane (née Williams) his wife. His mother was a cousin of David Roberts ('Alawydd ' and of John Williams ('Gorfyniawc o Arfon'). After moving to Mynydd Llandygái in 1885, the family returned to Bethesda in 1890, where he, too, obtained employment in Penrhyn quarry. Later he became an office clerk, and
GRIFFITH, ROBERT WILLIAM (1835 - 1894), Independent minister - gweler GRIFFITH, DAVID
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, ROWLAND (fl. 18th century), harpist and harp maker
GRIFFITH, Sir SAMUEL WALKER (1845 - 1920), judge Born at Merthyr Tydfil 21 June 1845, the son of Edward Griffith, minister of the English Independent church there (1842-5), and Mary, daughter of Peter Walker of Swansea. Sailing to Australia (1854) with his family, Edward Griffith later became pastor of the Congregational church in Ipswich, near Brisbane. After a brilliant career at the university of Sydney, Samuel Griffith was admitted, in 1867
GRIFFITH, THOMAS, weaver - gweler THOMAS, DAVID
GRIFFITH, THOMAS TAYLOR (1795 - 1876), surgeon and antiquary Born at Wrexham, 11 December 1795, he was one of the eleven children (and the eldest son) of Thomas Griffith (1753 - 1846, surgeon), and great-grandson of John Griffith (1654 - 1698) or Siôn Gruffydd of Cae Cyriog, genealogist and herald, who died 31 October 1698. The family of Cae Cyriog in the Hafod township, Ruabon, was there at least as early as the mid 15th century (P. Fadog, ii, 184). His
GRIFFITH, WALTER (1727 - 1779), captain R.N. Bay. From 1760 to 1763 (when he retired) he was on the Mediterranean. The war of American independence recalled him to active service, and he was killed off S. Lucia, 18 December 1779. The D.N.B. statement that he was of an old Merioneth family needs rectifying. He was in fact the younger son of Ralph Griffith, of Bron-gain in Llanfechain, Montgomeryshire - see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 119, 233
GRIFFITH, WALTER (1819 - 1846), advocate of free trade his father was David Griffith of Blowty in Llŷn, who was Independent minister of Tal-y-sarn (1814-30), afterwards shopkeeper at Bethesda till 1840, and then minister at Ruabon (Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru, iii, 228, iv, 30); he died in 1843. Walter Griffith was born in August 1819, and apprenticed to a shopkeeper at Bethesda. Removing to Manchester as assistant to a hatter, he was drawn into
GRIFFITH, WILLIAM (1704 - 1747), early Welsh Moravian (one of the original members of the London Moravian congregation)
GRIFFITH, WILLIAM (1801 - 1881), Independent minister and hymn-writer Younger son of John Griffith (1752 - 1818), born 12 August 1801 at Glan-yr-afon, Llanfaglan, Caernarfonshire, was at Neuadd-lwyd and Carmarthen, and was in 1822 ordained minister at Holyhead, where he remained for the rest of his life, declining calls to important churches in London, Liverpool, Carmarthen, and other places. His long ministry was of great importance in the history of Independency

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