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GRIFFITHS, JOHN GWYNEDD (1911 - 2004), scholar, poet and Welsh nationalist
GRIFFITHS, JOHN POWELL (1875 - 1944), minister (Baptist) and schoolmaster John Powell Griffiths was the son of J. E. Griffiths (1841-1918), minister of Horeb Welsh Baptist church, Skewen, Glamorganshire. The father was born in Froncysyllte and raised to the ministry in Pen-y-cae, where he had been taken by his uncle following the death of his parents when he was three years old. After training for the ministry in Llangollen Academy he was ordained in Swyddffynnon and
GRIFFITHS, JOHN THOMAS (1824 - 1895), mining engineer
GRIFFITHS, MORRIS (fl. 1766-1805), Methodist exhorter, afterwards Baptist minister, and hymn-writer In 1766 he was a Methodist exhorter at Prendergast, near Haverfordwest; in 1776, when he called at Trevecka, he was a lay preacher. In 1779 he was baptized at Llangloffan and in 1788 was ordained one of the ministers of that church. He died in 1805. He is often confused with Morris Griffiths of Trefgarn (see the preceding article). He published: Marwnad … John Davies, Pregethwr yr efengyl yn Sir
GRIFFITHS, PETER HUGHES (1871 - 1937), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author Born 6 August 1871 at Ffynnon Ynyd, Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, son of the Rev. John Griffiths and Anna, his wife. He was educated at Parcyfelfed, Carmarthen, and then became a shop assistant at Mountain Ash, Glamorganshire, where he began to preach. After a further period of education at Gwynfryn school, Ammanford, and Trevecka College he became assistant minister at the English Presbyterian
GRIFFITHS, ROBERT (1824 - 1903), musician Born 21 May 1824 at Carmarthen to parents who moved a year afterwards to Bristol. He was possessed of a good voice and was made precentor in the Sunday school at Broadmead chapel. He joined the Bristol Orpheus Society and the Madrigal Singing Society. On the death of his father he went to London where he became precentor in the Baptist chapel, Islington Green. After hearing John Curwen lecturing
GRIFFITHS, VAVASOR (bu farw 1741), Independent minister and tutor the other hand the '1698 or 1699' often given as his year of birth raises considerable difficulties - making him, e.g. an ordained minister when he was only sixteen or seventeen. Everything points to his having been a native of Bugeildy parish, Radnorshire; indeed, Maesgwyn may have been the family home. In John Evans's lists, c. 1715, Griffiths's name comes third of the three ministers of the
GRIFFITHS, WILLIAM (1898 - 1962), bookseller 1959. He was a member of the Council of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion for many years and he was elected a member of the Bardic Gorsedd under the name of ' Gwilym Cerdin '. He married Winifred Irene, daughter of John Kent and his wife Sara (née Rogers) in the parish church of Mentmore, Buckinghamshire 23 September 1933 and they had one daughter. He died in a London hospital on 8 October 1962.
GRIFFITHS, WILLIAM (1777 - 1825), Independent minister and teacher Born at Glandŵr, Pembrokeshire, the second son of John Griffiths (1731 - 1811). He was educated at the school of 'one Mr. Foyle,' at his father's school, and at Haverfordwest. He was admitted to the Wrexham Academy, 2 February 1795, and was an assistant there in his last year. He was ordained as joint minister with his father, 23 May 1803(?). He achieved some degree of prominence as a preacher in
GRIST, IAN (1938 - 2002), Conservative politician for Wales, working within the Conservative Research Department, 1970-74. Grist stood as the Conservative candidate for Aberavon against John Morris in the general election of June 1970, and subsequently represented Cardiff North, 1974-83, and, following widespread boundary re-distribution, the much more marginal Cardiff Central, 1983-92. In the general election of June 1987 his majority was halved
GROSSMAN, YEHUDIT ANASTASIA (1919 - 2011), Jewish patriot and author John Petts, founder of the Caseg Press before the war, and his belief (erroneous, in fact) that he had Welsh roots, living in north Wales had been a dream for Jonah Jones. It was to his family home at Wardley, Tyne and Wear, that he and Yehudit turned on landing in Britain, but they spent a month at the cottage of Petts and his second wife, Kusha, in Cwm Pennant, shortly after their return to Britain
GROVE, Sir WILLIAM ROBERT (1811 - 1896), scientist and lawyer Born 11 July 1811 at Swansea, son of John Grove and Anne (formerly Bevan). He entered Brasenose College, Oxford, and graduated B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835. The degree of D.C.L. was conferred upon him in 1875, and that of LL.D., Cambridge, in 1879. In November 1831 he entered Lincoln's Inn, being called to the Bar in November 1835. His natural bent was towards science, and he won considerable repute for

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