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GRENFELL, DAVID RHYS (1881 - 1968), Labour politician of William Morgan. He also became active in the local Labour Party in 1916; and in 1920 he was adopted prospective candidate for the Gower division. He entered parliament as the Labour MP for the Gower constituency at an all-important by-election held on 20 July 1922 held on the death of John Williams MP, subsequently retaining the division until his retirement from the House of Commons in 1959
GRESHAM, COLIN ALASTAIR (1913 - 1989), archaeologist, historian and author Born 11 May 1913 at Bexton Croft, a substantial and impressive residence in Toft Road, Knutsford, Cheshire, designed by M. H. Baillie Scott in 1895. Colin was the younger of the two sons born to Frank James Gresham and his wife, Janie Maud, daughter of John Payne, a Manchester solicitor. His father was an engineer who became a co-director and co-manager with his two elder brothers of Gresham
GREVILLE, CHARLES FRANCIS (1749 - 1809), founder of Milford Haven town, Pembrokeshire FULKE GREVILLE (1800 - 1867). He stood for the county in the general election of 1831 against Sir John Owen of Orielton and was defeated by 109 votes. Both candidates felt the heavy financial strain of the contest. For the next twenty years Greville lived abroad. He served with the rank of major in the British Auxiliary Legion during the Carlist rising in Spain. Later he lived near Paris. In 1853 he
teulu GREY (POWIS, lords of), Sir JOHN GRAY or GREY, of Heton, Northumberland (c. 1385 - 1421), married Joan, elder daughter and coheiress of Sir Edward Cherleton, lord of Powis (died 1421). In her right, he, for a few months, enjoyed half the lordship of Pool. When Sir John Oldcastell (Oldcastle), otherwise known as lord Cobham, was taken from hiding at Broniarth in 1417 by Ieuan and Griffith Vaughan, and handed over to
GREY, THOMAS (1733 - 1810), Independent minister Blaenplwyf estate. Their only daughter Letitia was born about 1767. She married John Hughes (1760 - 1813), vicar of Nantcwnlle and Llanddeiniol; William Gray Hughes, vicar of Mathry, a young clergyman of great promise who died aged thirty-two, in 1824 was one of their children. Thomas Grey co-operated with Daniel Rowland, Llangeitho, and preached regularly at Llangeitho and at other Calvinistic Methodist
GRIDLEY, JOHN CRANDON (1904 - 1968), industrialist John Gridley was born on 28 May 1904 in Cardiff, the only son of William Joseph Gridley and his wife Mary Ellen (née Michell). He was educated at Cardiff and at Queen's College Taunton, Somerset. He played rugby for Glamorgan Wanderers. His early commercial training was in a Cardiff coal and shipping office that became a subsidiary of Powell Duffryn, the largest coal producers and distributors in
teulu GRIFFITH PENRHYN, baron Grey of Ruthin (the enemy of Owain Glyndŵr) and first cousin to John Grey, lord Ferrers of Groby (1432 - 1461) who was the first husband of Elizabeth Woodville, later queen of Edward IV. (D.N.B., xxiii, 193, 197; Williams, Observations on the Snowdon Mountains, 1802, 174.) The marriage must have brought him into personal contact with the powerful Greys and Woodvilles and it would explain the
teulu GRIFFITH Cefn Amwlch, Penllech, Llŷn to the earl of Leicester's designs on the Forest of Snowdon, the Griffiths played no major part in county administration until 1589, when GRIFFITH AP JOHN GRIFFITH was picked as sheriff in that year. Griffith died and was buried at Oxford in 1599, leaving as heir to the estate, JOHN GRIFFITH I, who was Sheriff of Caernarfon in 1604 and 1618, and M.P. for Caernarvon from 1604 to (?) 1611. He died
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, SIDNEY (bu farw 1752), Methodist and associate of Howel Harris esteem of Mrs. Griffith's character. As for Harris, he regarded her as 'the eye of Christ's Body' (it may be remarked that before this he had cast others, men and women, in this role), implicitly obeyed her advice, and took her around with him everywhere as a sort of ark of the covenant. Morgan John Lewis, who had himself at one period been an 'eye,' expostulated in vain with Harris (May 1750); ' Madam
teulu GRIFFITH Garn, Plasnewydd, conclusions reached by the editor of Detholiad o Waith Gruffudd ab Ieuan ap Llewelyn Vychan (Bangor, 1910), was able to throw additional light on the career of the bard. Gruffydd ap Ieuan's first wife was Janet, daughter of Richard ap Howel (see Mostyn of Mostyn); his successor in the Griffith line was THOMAS AP GRIFFITH AP IEUAN, his son by his second wife, Alice, daughter of John Owen, Tre Bwll
GRIFFITH, ALEXANDER (bu farw 1676), cleric and controversialist , notably by Dr. John Walker in his Sufferings (see especially pp. 147-170). Such a fiery, unpeaceable character was not likely to receive the 'fifths' allowed to ejected clergymen by the Act; but the Puritan authorities relented so far as to allow him to keep school at Hay from 1658 onwards. The Restoration restored him to the vicarage of Glasbury; before 1665 he was rector of Llyswen as well; when his

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