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FOULKES, ISAAC (Llyfrbryf; 1836 - 1904), newspaper proprietor and publisher Born 9 November 1836 at Llanfwrog, Denbighshire, son of Peter and Frances Foulkes. He was apprenticed as a compositor to Isaac Clarke, Ruthin, but went to Liverpool on Christmas eve 1854, before completing his apprenticeship. He spent some years as a compositor in the Amserau printing office and then went to the printing works of David Marples. He set up a press of his own in 1862 at 28 King
GIBSON, JOHN (1790 - 1866), sculptor queen, and subsequently in 1855. His work was strongly influenced by classical tradition and by the Greeks, even to colouring his sculpture, and his most famous work, 'The Tinted Venus,' and two other tinted statues occasioned considerable discussion when they were shown at the Great Exhibition of 1862. Gibson was elected A.R.A. in 1833 and R.A. in 1835; he exhibited thirty-three works at the Royal
GRAVELL, DAVID (1787 - 1872), farmer, herbalist, and publisher Ddethol o Catecism Cymanfa Westminster, 1862; Crefydd Gymdeithasol, neu Gydymaith y Cristion gan y Parch. Mathias Maurice gyda Byrdraeth; Bywyd David Gravell ynghyd a Hanes Eglwys Penygraig, 1865; Athrawiaeth Pabaidd-Esgobol yn cael ei Gwrth-brofi, 1871. Among the Caniadau Seion there are a few hymns written by himself but they are very ordinary and lack popular appeal. He regarded himself as an elder
GRIFFITH, JOHN THOMAS (1845 - 1917), Baptist minister Born 1 January 1845 at Pen-y-parc in the Vale of Glamorgan. He was baptized 20 May 1859 at Pisgah, Pyle. He was at Mountain Ash in 1862. He was married in January 1865; he also started to preach that year. He emigrated to Scranton, U.S.A., and worked in a coal mine. Ordained by the Welsh community at Newburg, Cleveland, he subsequently served twenty churches. He was twice married. He returned
GRIFFITH, OWEN (Giraldus; 1832 - 1896), Baptist minister, editor and author Born at Tyn-y-braich, Garn Dolbenmaen, Caernarfonshire. He was educated in the old school at Dolbenmaen by Owen Griffith, was a member of the Baptist church at Horeb, and was baptized when he was 13 years old. Soon afterwards he was apprenticed as a ship-carpenter at Portmadoc; he was employed in the shipbuilding yard until 1862, and joined the Ynys Galch Baptist church. He entered the ministry
GRIFFITHS, WILLIAM (Ifander; 1830 - 1910), choral conductor and adjudicator of the Swansea Valley ' in 1861 - a choral society which became celebrated throughout South Wales because of its magnificent contribution to the development of choral and congregational singing in the sixties. He was the first in West Wales to give a performance of Handel's 'Messiah' with an orchestral accompaniment. This was at Ystalyfera and Swansea in 1862. The following year the society gave
GRONOW, REES HOWELL (1794 - 1865), writer of memoirs , 1862; Recollections and Anecdotes, 1863; Celebrities of London and Paris, 1865; and Last Recollections, being the fourth and final series, 1866. He died in Paris 20 November 1865.
GRUFFYDD, ROBERT (Patrobas; 1832 - 1863), poet Born at Pen-y-maes, Nevin, Caernarfonshire, son of Robert and Catrin Gruffydd. He contributed poems to Y Dysgedydd and other journals and, in 1862, published a small volume entitled Byr Ganeuon gan Patrobas (Pwllheli). He died 20 or 21 April 1863 of tuberculosis, leaving a widow and two children, and was buried at Nevin.
HALL, AUGUSTA (Lady Llanover), (Gwenynen Gwent; 1802 - 1896), patron of Welsh culture and inventor of the Welsh national costume Autobiography and Correspondence of Mrs. Delaney in six volumes, which appeared in 1861 and 1862. Shaken by the sudden death of her husband Benjamin Hall in 1867 and increasingly repelled by the Anglicized character of the Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales, Lady Llanover became a less public figure in later life. She died at Llanover on 17 January 1896 and was interred in the family tomb at St. Bartholomew's
HALL, BENJAMIN (1802 - 1867) upon the Book of Common Prayer. She edited the Autobiography and Correspondence of Mrs. Delaney in six volumes (1861 and 1862), and published a medley, Good Cookery … and Recipes communicated by the Hermit of the Cell of St. Gover … 1867, with illustrations by herself, and coloured plates illustrating Welsh female costumes (c. 1843). She survived her husband by over twenty-eight years and died 17
HARDING, Sir JOHN DORNEY (1809 - 1868), Queen's Advocate Born at Rockfield, Monmouthshire, in 1809. For some time he was a private pupil under Thomas Arnold and then proceeded to Oriel College, Oxford, to complete his education. He obtained his B.A. degree in 1830, M.A. 1833 and D.C.L. in 1837. In that year he commenced to practise as an advocate at Doctors' Commons. In 1852 he was appointed Queen's Advocate, a post which he retained until 1862. He was
HARRIES, HENRY (bu farw 1862), astrologer, medicine-man, and conjurer

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