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GITTINS, CHARLES EDWARD (1908 - 1970), educationalist Education Committee, the executive committee of the National Foundation for Educational Research, a governor of the National College for the Training of Youth Leaders, chairman of the Statutory Committee on Youth Employment, treasurer of the Standing Conference of Studies in Education, a member of the Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales under the chairmanship of Sir Guildhaume Myrddin-Evans, a
teulu GLYN Glynllifon, known as WILLIAM GLYNNE the Sergeant of Arms, temp. Hy. VIII, whose son WILLIAM GLYNNE fl. 1588, married Lowry, the heiress of Lleuar, and founded the house of the Glynne family of Lleuar. Upon the death of Robert ap Meredydd his estates were divided between two of his sons: EDMUND LLOYD obtained Glynllifon, and RICHARD AP ROBERT, died 1539, got Plas Newydd and Nantlle. Richard became the head of the
GREGORY, HENRY (1637? - 1700?), preacher with the Arminian Baptists Gregory became leader of 'the people of Hugh Evans ' (died 1656); this is substantiated by the report of Henry Maurice in 1675 that he was a teaching elder of the Arminians of West Radnor and North Brecknock who had their meeting-place at Cwm (Cwm Fardy, tradition says) in the parish of Llanddewi Ystradenny, at the house of Peter Gregory. There is not a word of Henry Gregory having to appear at
teulu GRIFFITH Cefn Amwlch, Penllech, Llŷn before March 1628. Another son, Edmund Griffith I, became dean of Bangor in 1613 and was promoted to the bishopric in 1633. It was during the lifetime of JOHN GRIFFITH I and particularly of his son, JOHN GRIFFITH II, that the star of Cefn Amwlch rose to the ascendant with the successful challenging of the supremacy of the Wynn family of Gwydir and their allies in Caernarvonshire. A graduate (1609) of
teulu GRIFFITH PENRHYN, , Anglesey, and Llanfairis-gaer, Caernarfonshire; EDMUND, the second son, founded the estate of Carreg-lwyd, Anglesey. See Griffith, Pedigrees, 47, 56, 57, and articles Griffith of Carreg-lwyd and George Griffith, 1601 - 1666. In 1451 he was member of a commission appointed to examine the reasons why the revenues of Merioneth were in arrear (Cal. Pat. Rolls, 1446-52, 480) and between 1457 and 1463 he was
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, EDMUND (1570 - 1637), bishop appointment of a non-preaching and non- Welsh speaking curate. He held a synod of the clergy of his diocese in November 1636. Bishop Edmund Griffith has been confused with EDMUND GRIFFITH (1559 - 1617) of Carreglwyd, Anglesey.
GRIFFITH, EDMUND (1559 - 1617), rector - gweler GRIFFITH, EDMUND
GRIFFITH, EDWARD (1832 - 1918), antiquary Born at Barmouth 2 January 1832, son of David and Lowrie Griffith. His parents soon moved to Dolgelley to keep first the 'Crown' and then the 'Angel' inns. He had very little schooling, but learnt much in the two or three years he attended the British School, Dolgelley, where the headmaster was Daniel Evans, who had been promoted to the post when the school opened in 1840. At Dolgelley he
GRIFFITH, HUW WYNNE (1915 - 1993), minister (Presb) and a prominent ecumenical leader married Mair Benson-Evans (1918-2003), daughter of Dr and Mrs Benson-Evans, Prestatyn on 4 July 1945 in Rehoboth Chapel, Prestatyn and three daughters were born to them, Nia in 1947, Ann in 1949 and Gwawr in 1956. From his college days Huw Wynne Griffith had been heavily involved in the ecumenical witness. He served from 1939 to 1941 as the General Secretary of the Student Christian Movement (SCM), and
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
GRIFFITH, WILLIAM (1801 - 1881), Independent minister and hymn-writer in Anglesey, and he himself became one of the leaders of his denomination in North Wales. His connections with Moravianism are of great interest. His mother was a niece of William Griffith (1719 - 1782) of Drws-y-coed, Caernarfonshire, and his association with that family led to his marriage (1843) with Alicia Evans, grand-daughter of the same William Griffith. The marriage was solemnized at

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