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GAPE, REES THOMAS - gweler GABE, RHYS THOMAS
GEE, THOMAS (1815 - 1898), Calvinistic Methodist minister, journalist, and politician (see under William Rees, 1802 - 1883); thereafter the name of the paper was Baner ac Amserau Cymru and from July 1861 it was, for many years, published twice a week. Through Y Faner Gee exercised great influence on the political, social, and religious life of Wales for a long time. Although at first he was not its editor 'it is scarcely necessary to say' writes T. Gwynn Jones, 'that he left his
GEORGE, DAVID LLOYD - gweler LLOYD GEORGE, DAVID
GEORGE, WILLIAM (1865 - 1967), solicitor and public figure Born at Highgate, Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire, 23 February 1865, the youngest child of William George, schoolmaster (he died 7 June 1864) and Elisabeth his wife (née Lloyd, 1828 - 1896), and a brother to David Lloyd George (see LLOYD GEORGE, David below), and Mary Elin. His father died before he was born and his uncle, Richard Lloyd, his mother's brother (1834 - 1917) had a profound influence
GIBSON-WATT, JAMES DAVID (BARON GIBSON-WATT), (1918 - 2002), Member of Parliament and public figure Born on 11 September 1918, the son of James Miller Gibson-Watt (1875-1929) of Doldowlod, near Llandrindod Wells, Radnorshire (Powys), and Marjorie Adela Ricardo. David Gibson-Watt was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. In October 1939, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into the Welsh Guards. Serving in the African campaign as commander of No. 4 Company, 3rd Battalion, Welsh
GILDAS (fl. 6th cent), monk that Gildas was a disciple of Saint Iltutus; see the 'Vita' of Saint Paul, written in 884, which states that Paul, David, Samson, and Gildas, author of the ' Ormesta Britanniae,' were fellow-pupils (Rev. Celt., v, 421), and that he crossed to Brittany and established there the monastery of Ruys in Vannes. The fame of Gildas amongst the saints of Ireland is attested by the reference to him by abbot
GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS (1146? - 1223), archdeacon of Brecon and mediaeval Latin writer Born some time between 1145 and 1147 at Manorbier, Pembrokeshire, the youngest son of William de Barri and Angharad, daughter of Gerald de Windsor and Nest, daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr. He received his early education from his uncle David FitzGerald bishop of S. Davids, and at the abbey of S. Peter, Gloucester. Subsequently he was a student at the University of Paris, and after his return thence
GODWIN, JUDITH (bu farw 1746), one of Howel Harris's correspondents Vavasor Griffiths and Lewis Rees; she was also an early and close friend of Howel Harris and of his family - we have nearly forty letters which passed between her and Harris. She was pietistic, and was strongly prejudiced against John and Charles Wesley. She died at Watford, Hertfordshire, 25 January 1746.
GOUGH, MATHEW (c. 1390 - 1450), soldier He was born c. 1390. A native of Maelor, in the lower valley of the Dee. His father was Owen Gough, bailiff of the manor of Hanmer; his mother was a daughter of David Hanmer, the nurse of John, lord Talbot, afterwards earl of Shrewsbury. Of the many Welshmen who fought in France during the latter part of the hundred years' war none won greater distinction than Mathew Gough. His name appears in
GRAVELL, DAVID (1787 - 1872), farmer, herbalist, and publisher , not as a deacon, of Pen-y-graig Independent church and in his later years his views on church government were a sore trial to his minister, Joseph Jarvis, and there were frequent tussles between him and David Rees of Llanelly on the same point. He had a deep-seated interest in education and it was chiefly through his generosity that the British school at Idole near Pen-y-graig was built. He was a
GREEN, BEATRICE (1894 - 1927), political activist members. The League was also consulted on developments in the hospital such as David Daggar's proposal for a birth control clinic in 1925. As the League's representative on the board of management, Green was closely involved with much of the hospital's decision-making. During the twenties she became a close friend of Marie Stopes who was a fundamental figure in the clinic's formation. Green herself was
GRENFELL, DAVID RHYS (1881 - 1968), Labour politician

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