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GRIFFITH, GEORGE WILLIAM (1584 - 1655?), landowner, attorney, magistrate, and antiquary of Penybenglog, Pembrokeshire; born 21 April 1584, eldest son of William Griffith. He married 22 November 1605, Maud Bowen of Llwyn-gwair, by whom he had seven children. He was appointed public clerk in Pembrokeshire by the council of the Marches, was sometime Seneschal of Cemais, he assisted George Owen of Henllys with historical researches, and compiled many genealogical manuscripts. Bards from
GRIFFITH, JOHN (fl. 1649-1669) Llanddyfnan, squire poet cywyddau is to be found among the Mostyn, Llanstephan and Henblas manuscripts in the National Library of Wales and the additional manuscripts in the British Museum. A staunch Churchman and Royalist, he was strongly antagonistic to the Puritan régime, as is evident from many of his compositions in the free metres. His elegies on Edward Wynne of Bodewryd and Mrs. Lumley Lloyd of Lligwy, both dated 1669
GRIFFITH, RICHARD (Carneddog; 1861 - 1947), poet, writer, and journalist Nantmor (under William Ellis) and Beddgelert (under George Thomas). He was a sheep farmer but he became better known as a poet, prose writer, and journalist. An eisteddfod competitor early in life, he also began to contribute to Welsh weekly newspapers, e.g. Baner ac Amserau Cymru, Y Genedl Gymreig, and Yr Herald Cymraeg, c. 1881; his weekly column ('Manion y Mynydd') in Yr Herald Cymraeg was very
GRIFFITH, ROBERT DAVID (1877 - 1958), musician and historian of Welsh congregational singing response to an appeal by John Lloyd Williams he completed his researches to publish the results of his work as a book: Hanes Canu Cynulleidfaol Cymru (1948). In 1952 the University of Wales conferred upon him an honorary M.A. degree. He died in his home in Old Colwyn, 21 October 1958, and was buried in Bronynant graveyard, Colwyn Bay. Some of his manuscripts are preserved in the library of the U.C.N.W
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, JAMES (JEREMIAH) (1890 - 1975), Labour politician and cabinet minister position, being re-elected each year, from 1956-59, when he was succeeded by Bevan, and Griffiths supported George Brown (rather than Harold Wilson) in the strenuously fought 1963 party leadership contest. In 1952 he was appointed a member of the advisory council to the BBC, and he remained a firm advocate of temperance throughout his life. Throughout his political career Griffiths had proved generally
GRIFFITHS, JOHN GWYNEDD (1911 - 2004), scholar, poet and Welsh nationalist and Society in honour of J. Gwyn Griffiths (ed. Alan B. Lloyd), which contains a bibliography of his writings to 1991. A matter of particular joy to him was the opening, in Swansea University in 1998, of the Egypt Centre, a permanent and purpose-built home for the Wellcome Collection of Egyptian Antiquities: he and Käthe Bosse-Griffiths had been instrumental in securing the collection for the
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
GRUFFYDD ap MADOG (bu farw 1191) Owain Gwynedd, and had two sons, Madog and Owen. He is called ' Gruffydd Maelor I ' to distinguish him from his grandson ' Gruffydd Maelor II,' who died 1269 (Lloyd, A History of Wales, 769).
GWRTHEYRN '); ' Gweirnyawn ' from ' Gwern '; ' Tygyryawn ' from ' Tengyr,' ' Tyngyr '; ' Lleissyawn ' from ' Lles.' A name ending in '-iawn' can therefore denote the descendants of the family of some chieftain or the district in which they dwell. For the position of Gwerthrynion between the rivers Wye and Ieithon, see Lloyd, A History of Wales, 253-4. For an attempt to explain the name as an example of 'calumpnia iuste
GWYNN, HARRI (fl. c. 1627), poet No details are known of his life. Two examples at least of his work are found in manuscripts, these being elegies to Jenkin Lloyd, heir to the estate of Berth-lwyd, near Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, and to doctor Oliver Lloyd of the same family.
teulu GWYNNE Kilvey Junior School roll increased from under 40 to over 600 and the Kilvey Schools were consistently spoken of by the Inspectors as the best in the Swansea area. He was a keen student of geology and history and was for forty years vice-president of the Royal Institution of South Wales. In 1857 he married Charlotte Lloyd (1825 - 1908), at one time the school-mistress of Kilvey. They had five sons and a

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