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GRIFFITH, ROGER (bu farw 1708), Presbyterian minister and tutor, afterwards archdeacon He seems to have been born at Abergavenny. In 1690-2 he was being supported by the 'Common Fund' (Presbyterian and Congregational) at Bishop's Hall, Bethnal Green, where Charles Owen was a fellow-student. Griffith then (1693) went to Utrecht university, again at the charges of the fund. In or about 1695 he became minister at Abergavenny; and in 1697, on the death of Samuel Jones (1628 - 1697) of
GRIFFITH, WALTER (1727 - 1779), captain R.N. of his elder brother Ralph Griffith of Brongain, who married as his first wife Catherine Jones, heiress of the Davieses of Caerhun (Griffith, op. cit., 233); the younger Walter Griffith (who in 1798 took the surname Booth) was the son of a second marriage.
GRIFFITH-JONES, EBENEZER (1860 - 1942), Congregational minister and college principal Born 5 February 1860 at Merthyr Tydfil, son of the Rev. E. Aeron Jones and Mary Ann, daughter of David Griffiths (1792 - 1863), missionary to Madagascar. Although he received the best education that was possible at the time he attributed his culture and scholarship mainly to the influence of his father. He went to Carmarthen Presbyterian College, 1875-78, and was an assistant teacher at Swansea
GRIFFITH-JONES, WILLIAM (1895 - 1961), Independent minister and administrator Born at Deiniolen, Caernarfonshire, 2 November 1895, the son of David and Mary Jones, members of Ebenezer Independent Chapel. The ministers at Ebenezer, J. Dyfnallt Owen and E. Wyn Jones, had a great influence on the young Griffith-Jones. When the family moved to Liverpool, he joined the English church in Great George St. During World War I, he served for two and a half years in Salonica, 1916-19
GRIFFITHS, ANN (1776 - 1805), hymn-writer , Ann Griffiths a'i theulu (1963). Jane married in 1794 Thomas Jones, Ty Cornel shop, Llanfyllin, and her grandson John Jones's daughter Margaret Jane Jones was the wife of the minister and writer Owen Jones (1833 - 1899); she died in January 1909. As a girl she was fond of a gay life but sobered down after hearing Benjamin Jones (1756 - 1823) of Pwllheli preach. She joined the Methodist society at
GRIFFITHS, ARCHIBALD REES (1902 - 1971), painter narrowly failed to win the Prix de Rome, but was awarded a travelling scholarship which took him to Paris, Venice, and to the British School in Rome in 1927. Before leaving, Griffiths married Winifred May Jones (known as 'Bobby'), a seventeen year-old model at the Royal College, by whom he would have two children, Diana and Rhys Adrian. The development of Griffiths' career had been reported from the
GRIFFITHS, DAVID (1756 - 1834), Methodist cleric Fields chapel, he was ordained a minister in the countess's connexion but later became an Independent. He was a minister in several places in England but, in his old age, returned to die in his brother's house at Lampeter Velfrey. There he was buried. Josiah Thomas Jones, printer and publisher of the Geiriadur Bywgraffyddol, was a nephew of the two brothers.
GRIFFITHS, ERNEST HOWARD (1851 - 1932), physicist and educationalist elected F.R.S. in 1895. In 1902 he was appointed to the principalship of the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff, in succession to J. Viriamu Jones, the first principal of the college. Active experimental work ceased pending the erection and equipment of a research laboratory, and administrative and educational duties absorbed his time for a number of years. He devoted much
GRIFFITHS, EVAN (Ieuan Ebblig; 1795 - 1873), Independent minister Born 18 January 1795 at Gellibeblig, near Bridgend, Glamorganshire, the youngest of seven children. His father died when he was only three years old, and owing to the poverty of the family he enjoyed few educational advantages. At 21 years of age he started preaching and attended for about a year a school kept by the minister of his chapel, W. Jones of Brynmenyn. Later he went for two years to a
GRIFFITHS, GRIFFITH PENNAR (1860 - 1918), Congregational minister kept by Rees Jenkin Jones with the intention of proceeding afterwards to one of the colleges of his denomination, but was unable to carry out his intention. He was ordairned at Merthyr Vale, Glamorganshire, in 1884 and moved to Pentre Esyllt, near Swansea, in 1887, there to spend the remainder of his days. He soon gained a reputation as an eloquent preacher. He had a clear voice and an easy delivery
GRIFFITHS, JOHN POWELL (1875 - 1944), minister (Baptist) and schoolmaster Hebrew. A year after graduating Powell Griffiths was ordained minister of Painscastle and Llandeilo, Radnorshire, both English-language Baptist churches. He moved to become minister in Mount Pleasant English Baptist church, Ponciau, Wrexham, in 1913, remaining there until his death in 1944. Lilian Jones, the wife he married in 1917, died after only two years of marriage. He never remarried but
GRIFFITHS, MORRIS (1721 - 1769), Independent minister Born in 1721 at Pen-y-bryn, Llangybi, Caernarfonshire, Magdalen, wife of Robert Jones of Rhos-lan (1745-1829), was his brother's daughter. At one time he worked for William Prichard (1702 - 1773) of Glasfryn Fawr, and then began to exhort, meeting with persecution at the outset of his career. He was admitted to Carmarthen Academy in 1750 and ordained minister of Trefgarn and Rhosycaerau

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