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GRIFFITH, GWILYM WYNNE (1914 - 1989), physician and Medical Officer of Health Bangor when he became minister of Tabernacl church there. Gwilym Wynne Griffith was educated in Porthmadog and Friars' School, Bangor where he won the Robert Gee scholarship to Liverpool University medical school in 1932; he graduated in 1938. His primary interests lay in the field of public health and cancer and he became a leading authority on the epidemiology of the disease. He won the Rex Cohen
GRIFFITH, ROBERT (1847 - 1909), musician Born 1 March 1847 at Glog Ddu, Llangernyw, Denbighshire, the son of John and Jane Griffith. The family moved to Llanrwst in 1853. The father was an Anglican and the mother a Calvinistic Methodist. After receiving some education at the National School, Llanrwst, he became a servant to 'Glan Collen' and afterwards to the Rev. John Rougler, Eglwys-bach. He then became apprenticed to Robert Roberts
GRIFFITH, ROBERT ARTHUR (Elphin; 1860 - 1936), author and lawyer
GRIFFITH, ROBERT DAVID (1877 - 1958), musician and historian of Welsh congregational singing
GRIFFITH, ROBERT WILLIAM (1835 - 1894), Independent minister - gweler GRIFFITH, DAVID
GRIFFITH, ROGER (bu farw 1708), Presbyterian minister and tutor, afterwards archdeacon - according to Jonathan Williams, Hist. of Radnorshire, his years there were 1706-8. Yardley records that on 9 October 1704 he was instituted archdeacon of Brecon, having been presented by the Crown during a vacancy in the see, at the instance of Robert Harley, later earl of Oxford, who was at the time M.P. for Radnor. Edmund Calamy (who was with Griffith at Utrecht) naturally laments his defection, and
GRIFFITHS, ANN (1776 - 1805), hymn-writer Pont Robert in 1797 and came into contact with John Hughes (1775 - 1854), the teacher and preacher, with whom she corresponded extensively. She married Thomas Griffiths (1779 - 8 April 1808), a Meifod farmer, on 10 October 1804 and died in August 1805 after the birth of her child; she was buried at Llanfihangel, 12 August. She used to recite her hymns to her maid, Ruth Evans, who treasured them in
GRIFFITHS, DAVID (1792 - 1863), missionary Born 20 December 1792, at Glanmeilwch, Gwynfe, Carmarthenshire. He began to preach in 1812, in 1814 he went to Neuadd-lwyd Academy, but in the same year was admitted to Wrexham Academy. In 1817 he went to the Missionary College, Gosport. He was nominated for the Madagascar missionary field; he was ordained on 27 July 1820, sailed with his wife in October of the same year and arrived in the spring
GRIFFITHS, DAVID ROBERT (1915 - 1990), Baptist minister and Biblical scholar D. R. Griffiths was born in Brynhyfryd, Pentre, Rhondda in 1915. He was the son of the Reverend Robert Griffiths, minister of Moriah Baptist chapel, Pentre, and Mrs Mimah Griffiths, daughter of David Davies, Maes Twynog, Llanwrda. Five very talented children were born to them: Elizabeth Jane, Augusta, John Gwyn (Professor J. Gwyn Griffiths, Swansea University), David Robert and Gwilym. Like his
GRIFFITHS, EDWARD (1929 - 1995), industrial chemist and Member of Parliament Born 7 March 1929, the son of Robert Griffiths of Treuddyn, near Mold. He was educated at Mold Grammar School and the University College of North Wales. Returning to Flintshire in 1951 after graduating, he obtained a post as industrial chemist, first at the John Summers steelworks at Shotton, and later at Caerphilly and at the Dalzell works in Scotland. Following his election to Flintshire County
GRIFFITHS, EZER (1888 - 1962), physicist (1918; 2nd ed., 1925; 3rd ed., 1947); Pyrometers (1926); Refrigeration principles and practice (1951), and many scientific papers in his field. His brothers included Edgar A. Griffiths, a physicist with the South African government, Jenkin Arthur Griffiths, the editor of the Colliery Guardian, and Roosevelt Griffiths, a lecturer in metallurgy at the University College, Swansea.
GRIFFITHS, JOHN GWYNEDD (1911 - 2004), scholar, poet and Welsh nationalist Born 7 December 1911 in Porth, Rhondda Valley, third of five children of the Reverend Robert Griffiths, minister of Moreia (B), Pentre, and Mrs Jemima Griffiths (née Davies). A younger brother was the Reverend D. R. Griffiths (1915-1990), biblical scholar and hymnist. He was educated at Porth County School for Boys, then at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff (1st

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