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GITTINS, CHARLES EDWARD (1908 - 1970), educationalist the Central Council on Education (Wales) which was commissioned by Sir Edward Boyle in 1963 to consider the whole subject of primary education in Wales. The report was published in 1967 in Welsh and English editions. It has become known as the ' Gittins Report ' and is an important document in the history of Welsh education, which recommended the principle of a completely bilingual system of
GITTINS, EDWARD (Iorwerth Pentyrch; 1843 - 1884), local historian
GLENN, THOMAS ALLEN (1864 - 1948), soldier, historian, genealogist, and archaeologist Born 8 January 1864 in Pennsylvania, the son of Edward and Sarah Catherine Glenn, British subjects. Glenn had a distinguished military career both in America and in Britain. By 1903 he was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the American army, but he resigned from the U.S.A. services in 1905 and came to reside in Wales. He served as an officer in World War I and held a commission in the Home Guard in World
teulu GLYN Glynllifon, Traditionally the family was derived from Cilmin Droed-ddu, who settled in the place after his flight from his native Cumbria in the 9th century, and historically from Tudur Goch who for war services under Edward III obtained a grant of escheat lands in Nantlle. By his marriage with Morfudd, another descendant of Cilmin, he obtained Glynllifon, which became the chief seat of his descendants
GLYN, WILLIAM (1504 - 1558), bishop reign, although remaining at heart a Catholic; and he was elected lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, 1544. He disapproved of the extreme Protestantism of Edward VI's reign, and he was one of the disputants who defended Transubstantiation before the Royal Commission of June, 1549; he resigned his chair in the same month. He later conformed and was instituted rector of S. Martin's, Ludgate, 1550, and
teulu GLYNNE death. He married Penelope Anderson. Their son, Sir WILLIAM GLYNNE (1662 - 1721), 2nd baronet, succeeded to the title and family estates. He too was educated at Oxford, which constituency he represented in Parliament in 1698. He was made a D.C.L. of Oxford in April 1706. On 5 July 1688 he married at S. Giles-in-the-Fields, Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Evelyn of Long Ditton. Their only son, WILLIAM
GODWIN, JUDITH (bu farw 1746), one of Howel Harris's correspondents Her maiden name was Weaver, and it is often (but incorrectly) said that she was the daughter of John Weaver (died 1712), Puritan minister at New Radnor and afterwards at Hereford; it is however very probable that she belonged to the same family and was born in Radnorshire. She married (1) Samuel Jones (1680? - 1719), of Tewkesbury, and (2) in 1721, Edward Godwin (1680? - 1764), a prominent
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
GOWER, HENRY (1278? - 1347), bishop Yardley) was appointed bishop of S. Davids, and consecrated on 12 June - Yardley adds that he was then 50 years of age. There are strong hints that he was of the party of Mortimer and queen Isabella; but he made his peace with Edward III and represented him abroad more than once, besides holding royal offices in England on occasion. But by far the greatest part of Gower's life as bishop was spent at S
GOWER, HERBERT RAYMOND (1916 - 1989), Conservative politician Westminster. After the general election of June 1970, Gower was tipped as a possible first Conservative Secretary of State for Wales, but Edward Heath chose instead Peter Thomas, the MP for Hendon South. As a consolation prize, Gower was knighted in 1974, and he was also made a Freeman of the Borough of Vale of Glamorgan in 1978. Raymond Gower lived at Sully near Cardiff. He married in 1973, Cynthia, the
GREENLY, EDWARD (1861 - 1951), geologist
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

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