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GREY, THOMAS (1733 - 1810), Independent minister name of John Grey. He became a member of the Congregational church at Tir Dwncyn or Mynydd-bach, Llangyfelach, and was encouraged to prepare for the ministry. On 3 October 1757 he entered the Academy kept by David Jardine at Abergavenny. Grants were made to him from the Congregational fund in January 1758 and 1759. He was granted a licence as a nonconformist preacher by the Cardiganshire court of
teulu GRIFFITH PENRHYN, deputy to various chamberlains of North Wales (Davies, Conway and Menai Ferries, 47; P.R.O. Min. Acc., 1154/3, 1180/3). He does not appear to have held the office of chamberlain. He was probably the William Griffith who, as ' marshall of the King's Hall,' received grants from Edward IV in 1462 and 1464, and he served on a number of North Wales commissions during Edward's reign (Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1461-7
GRIFFITH, ALEXANDER (bu farw 1676), cleric and controversialist Born about 1601 at Llysfaen in Caernarfonshire. Educated at Oxford, he was promoted to livings in the diocese of Bangor - Trefeglwys in 1622, Llanwnog in 1633 - and that of S. Davids, Glasbury, in 1639. He was ejected from Llanwnog under the act for the propagation of the gospel (1650-3), and from the vicarage of Glasbury, where particularly odious charges were laid against him. Naturally he was
GRIFFITH(S), DAVID (1726 - 1816), cleric and schoolmaster , Llanfaes, Brecknockshire, christened there 5 June 1726. His name does not appear in the records of either university but inscriptions printed (badly) in Theophilus Jones's History of the County of Brecknock, ed. 3, show him to have been a good Latinist. He was ordained deacon with title to the curacy of Bryngwyn, Radnorshire, 13 August 1749, and priest 26 August 1750, when he was licensed to the curacy
GRIFFITH, GWILYM WYNNE (1914 - 1989), physician and Medical Officer of Health , his translation of Hanes Môn yn y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg (1927), written by his aunt, Elizabeth Ann Williams. Gwilym Wynne Griffith married Gwyneth Rees Hughes of Liverpool in 1939 and they had 3 children. He died on April 16 1989 and is buried in the church of Llangwyfan on Anglesey.
GRIFFITH, JOHN (fl. 1548-1587), civil lawyer Caernarvonshire in 1582-3 and of Anglesey in 1587. His younger brother, WILLIAM GRIFFITH, LL.D., was admiralty judge for Caernarvon and M.P. for the borough in 1586, and in the following year was responsible for setting on foot the man-hunt which resulted in the discovery of a group of recusants meeting in the Rhiwledyn cave in Creuddyn with their own printing press (see under Puw).
GRIFFITH, OWEN (Ywain Meirion, Owen Gospiol; 1803 - 1868), ballad-writer and strolling ballad-singer . Some have it that he gave up ballad-singing and became a rag-collector; in any case, it is certain that his last years, despite the kindness of Nicholas Bennett, were years of adversity. He died a pauper at Llanbryn-mair, 24 June 1868, at the age of sixty-five, and was buried there by the parish - on his tomb is an englyn by Mynyddog. We have fifty-nine of his ballads.
GRIFFITH, WILLIAM JOHN (1875 - 1931), writer of short stories Born at Bwlan, Aberffraw, Anglesey, 15 September 1875, son of Thomas Lewis Griffith, farmer and valuer, and Margaret Griffith of Bwlan. The family went to live at Cefn Coch farm, Llansadwrn, near Beaumaris, where Griffith lived until he was 24 years of age. He was educated at Llansadwrn and at Beaumaris grammar-school, won an agricultural scholarship to the university college, Bangor, and took a
GRIFFITHS, ANN (1776 - 1805), hymn-writer Born April 1776 at Dolwar Fach, Llanfihangel yng Ngwynfa, Montgomeryshire, (baptised 21 April 1776), daughter of John (died c. February 1804) and Jane Thomas (died 1794). Her parents were church-goers. They had five children: (1) Jane, 1767, (2) John, 1770, (3) Elizabeth, 1772, (4) Ann, and (5) Edward, 1779. An extensive study of the children (and their descendants) has been made by David Thomas
GRIFFITHS, ERNEST HOWARD (1851 - 1932), physicist and educationalist air temperatures up to 100 degrees centigrade. In 1918 he retired to Cambridge, and for some years threw himself wholeheartedly into the work of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, of which he became treasurer. He continued this work until incapacitated by a long and painful illness. He died 3 March 1932.
GRIFFITHS, EVAN (Ieuan Ebblig; 1795 - 1873), Independent minister school at Newport, Monmouth, kept by Jenkin Lewis. At the end of this period he was recommended by his teacher to lady Diana Barham as a suitable person to take charge of two Independent churches, Pilton Green and Park Mill, in Gower. He commenced his ministry 3 May 1822. He resigned his pastorate, 4 August 1828, and removed to Swansea to work on the translation of Mathew Henry's Commentary into Welsh
GRIFFITHS, GRIFFITH (1799 - 1845), Anglican missionary christened 24 December 1799, son of Griffith and Elizabeth Griffiths, Ty'n–nant, Llanfihangel-genau'r-glyn, Cardiganshire. He was educated locally and under John Williams (1792 - 1858) at Lampeter grammar school. Ordained deacon, he sailed for Jamaica in 1825 as missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel; he was priested in Jamaica by bishop Lipscombe, and appointed to the

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