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GRIFFITHS, WINIFRED MAIR (1916 - 1996), minister (Cong) and headmistress Mair Griffiths was born in Cardiff 6 June 1916, one of two daughters born to Griffith William and Alice Maud Griffiths. Griffith William Griffiths had come as a young man to work in Cardiff from Montgomeryshire, where his parents were farming at the Forge Farm, near Pontrobert, on the road to Meifod. It is interesting to note, in this connection, that the brother of one of her father's great
GRUFFUDD ap NICOLAS (fl. 1415-1460), esquire and a leading figure in the local administration of the principality of South Wales in the middle of the 15th century Owen Tudor. It is, therefore, impossible to accept the reports that he was mortally wounded either at the battle of Wakefield, 1460, or at Mortimer's Cross, 1461. His praises were sung by Dafydd ab Edmwnd, Hywel ap Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Rhys, Rhys Llwyd ap Rhys ap Rhicert, Gwilym ap Ieuan Hen, and Lewis Glyn Cothi. It is probable that the englynion attributed to him and Owen Dwnn and Griffith Benrhaw
GRUFFUDD GRYG (fl. second half of the 14th century), bard This is to be gathered from Gruffudd's cywydd to the seven sons of Iorwerth ap Gruffudd of Lliwon, Anglesey, men who flourished (in all probability) c. 1360-70. He says that he is related to them and he addresses them as his kindred; he must, therefore, have been related in some way to the tribe of Hwfa ap Cynddelw (see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 5). He sang also to Einion ap Gruffudd, Chwilog
GRUFFYDD ap IEUAN ap LLYWELYN FYCHAN (c. 1485 - 1553), bard and member of a Welsh landed family Son of Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan. He lived in Llewenni Fechan (later Llannerch), near S. Asaph. Some poems by him in British Museum manuscripts (Detholiad o waith Gruffydd ab Ieuan ab Llewelyn Vychan) were published in 1910, edited by J. C. Morrice, who gave some biographical details. Subsequently, i.e. in 1934, T. Allen Glenn gave, in The Family of Griffith of Garn and Plasnewydd in the County of
GRUFFYDD, ROBERT (1753 - 1820), musician latter is found in hymn-tune books under the name of 'Trefdeyrn.' There are anthems by him to the words 'Mor hawddgar yw dy bebyll,' 'Arglwydd, clyw fy ngweddi,' and 'Ein Tad, yr hwn sydd yn y nefoedd.' He died 17 August 1820. On his gravestone he is called 'Robert Griffith, late singing-master of Llanbeblig.'
GRUFFYDD, ROBERT GERAINT (1928 - 2015), Welsh scholar R. Geraint Gruffydd was born on 9 June 1928 in Egryn, an ancient house in Tal-y-bont, Dyffryn Ardudwy. He was the second of the two children of Moses Griffith (1893-1973), researcher in experimental agriculture and later an independent agricultural advisor, and his wife Ceridwen (née Ellis), a teacher of Welsh and Latin. He had an elder sister, Meinir (1926-1992). Egryn had been the home of the
GRUFFYDD, WILLIAM JOHN (1881 - 1954), scholar, poet, critic and editor Born at Gorffwysfa, Bethel, Caernarfonshire, 14 February 1881, son of John and Jane Elisabeth Griffith. He was educated at Bethel elementary school and Caernarfon County School, where he was one of the first entrants when the school was opened in 1894. He entered Jesus College, Oxford, in 1899, and read English Literature. In 1904 he was appointed Assistant Master at Beaumaris Grammar School, and
GWYN, JOHN (bu farw 1574), lawyer, placeman, and educational benefactor Bangor cathedral, resigning it next year to his second brother Griffith - only to resume it in 1555, after which he kept it until his death, defying the efforts of archbishop Parker to dislodge him. In 1556 he was presented to the sinecure rectory of Llanrhaeadr in Cinmerch. He was reported by bishop Rowland Meyrick as one of four lay lawyers beneficed in the diocese. He seems to have been entirely
teulu HANMER Hanmer, Bettisfield, Fens, Halton, Pentre-pant, .1388) became a justice of the king's bench in 1383 and was knighted in 1387. He married Agnes (or Angharad), daughter of Llywelyn Ddu ap Gruffydd ap Iorwerth, and the Welsh tone of the family appears in the support they gave to Owain Glyn Dwr, who married Sir David's daughter Margaret. Her brothers GRIFFITH (who married into the Tudor family of Penmynydd) and PHILIP joined in proclaiming him prince
HARRIS, GRIFFITH (1811 - 1892), musician Born, according to the family gravestone at Carmarthen on 15 July 1811, the son of Griffith and Mary Harris. He had a clothier's shop at Carmarthen. He was precentor at Water Street Calvinistic Methodist chapel; he also conducted a town choir. In 1849 he published a collection of 260 hymn-tunes under the title of Haleluwia, this being followed in 1855 by Haleliwia Drachefn, containing 200 hymn
HARRIS, HOWELL (1714 - 1773), religious reformer refusal was repeated more than once subsequently - and for the same reason). He consulted Griffith Jones who besought him without success to be more moderate. In 1737 he came into contact with Daniel Rowland and the two began to work together. Among their earliest converts were Howel Davies and William Williams of Pantycelyn. In 1742 these formed themselves and their adherent societies into an
HARRIS, JOSEPH (1704 - 1764), Assay-master at the Mint member of the Cymmrodorion Society. He died 26 September 1764; he was buried in the Tower. His wife (died May 1763) was Anne, daughter and co-heiress of his former neighbour Thomas Jones of Tredustan. Their daughter, ANNA MARIA HARRIS, married SAMUEL HUGHES (he was one of the witnesses of the marriage of Elizabeth, Howel Harris's daughter); to her was left the property of her uncle Thomas Harris; and

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