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GOULD, ARTHUR JOSEPH (1864 - 1919), Rugby footballer was also one of the greatest runners in Wales. He died 2 January 1919; to perpetuate his memory a memorial bed was endowed at the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport. He had an elder brother ROBERT GOULD (1864? - 1932), a Rugby forward who played for Newport from 1879 to 1889, and represented Wales on eleven occasions between 1882 and 1887; he died 29 December 1932.
GOULD, ROBERT (1864? - 1932), rugby footballer - gweler GOULD, ARTHUR JOSEPH
GOWER, Sir ERASMUS (1742 - 1814), admiral intermarriage with the original family, the Vaughans. These were descendants of Robert Vaughan, a cadet of the better-known Vaughans of Cors-y-gedol in Merionethshire; this Robert's wife was Elizabeth, daughter of the translator Thomas Phaer. The Gowers eventually removed from Glandovan to Clunderwen, Pembrokeshire.
teulu GRENFELL, Swansea industrialists abolished slavery in 1833 Pascoe St. Leger Grenfell applied for compensation for a total of 347 slaves in Jamaica. See 'Legacies of British Slave-ownership'. FRANCIS WALLACE GRENFELL, Field Marshall Lord GRENFELL of Kilvey (1841 - 1925) It was the 4th son who achieved national fame: P.C., K.C.B. 1886, G.C.M.G. 1892, G.C.B. 1898, LL.D. Edinburgh 1902, LL.D. Cambridge, 1903, and F.S.A. He was born in London
GRESHAM, COLIN ALASTAIR (1913 - 1989), archaeologist, historian and author name 'Pennant' after the township of that name in his beloved Eifionydd. He was elevated to the Druidic Order at the Barry National Eisteddfod in 1968. He began researching into local history seriously in 1931 and on his archaeological field-work in north-west Wales soon after his graduation in 1935 when he assisted R. E. Mortimer Wheeler and Wilfrid James Hemp. Following a suggestion made to him by
GREVILLE, CHARLES FRANCIS (1749 - 1809), founder of Milford Haven town, Pembrokeshire Greville in April 1809, the new town entered upon a period of depression. Greville was succeeded by his younger brother ROBERT FULKE GREVILLE (1751 - 1824), sometime equerry to king George III. He took but a tepid interest in his brother's projects. When the Admiralty proposed to purchase the site of the dockyard, for which it had been paying a yearly rent, he refused to accept its valuation. It was
GREVILLE, ROBERT FULKE (1751 - 1824) - gweler GREVILLE, CHARLES FRANCIS
GREVILLE, ROBERT FULKE (1800 - 1867) - gweler GREVILLE, CHARLES FRANCIS
teulu GRIFFITH PENRHYN, Anglesey and Caernarvonshire to his son by the second marriage. (Penrhyn manuscripts, passim; Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society and Field Club, 1951, 34-72; J. R. Jones, ' The development of the Penrhyn estate to 1431 ', University of Wales M.A. thesis, unpublished.) From 1431 to 1531 the son, grandson, and great-grandson of Gwilym ap Griffith (each named Gwilym) held the estate and added
teulu GRIFFITH Cefn Amwlch, Penllech, Llŷn London. A staunch churchman and Cavalier, he was a man of some consequence in post-Restoration Caernarvonshire, being made sheriff in 1661. His death, in 1688, was preceded in 1687 by that of his son JOHN GRIFFITH IV, and the estate was left in the hands of their widows, both named Elizabeth, the younger of whom, relict of John Griffith and daughter of Robert, 2nd viscount Bulkeley of Baron Hill, being
teulu GRIFFITH Carreg-lwyd, This family was descended from Ednyfed Fychan. EDMUND GRIFFITH of Porth yr Aur, Caernarvon, was the third son of William Griffith Fychan of Penrhyn, in the county of Caernarvon. He married Janet, daughter of Maredudd ap Ieuan ap Robert, the great-grandfather of Sir John Wynn the most notable of the house of Gwydir. Their fourth son was WILLIAM GRIFFITH (c. 1516 - 1587), who became rector of
GRIFFITH, DAVID (1792 or 1794 - 1873), Independent minister chairman of the union of Welsh Independents (1890). He published a stout volume, Hanes yr Eglwys Gristionogol drwy y Byd, but for all his labour and care failed to establish a reputation as a historian. He also published a memoir of David Roberts (1818 - 1897) of Wrexham. His youngest brother, ROBERT WILLIAM GRIFFITH (1835 - 1894), was joint minister with him at Bethel, Seilo and Moriah from 1866 to 1873

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