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GOWER, HERBERT RAYMOND (1916 - 1989), Conservative politician Westminster. After the general election of June 1970, Gower was tipped as a possible first Conservative Secretary of State for Wales, but Edward Heath chose instead Peter Thomas, the MP for Hendon South. As a consolation prize, Gower was knighted in 1974, and he was also made a Freeman of the Borough of Vale of Glamorgan in 1978. Raymond Gower lived at Sully near Cardiff. He married in 1973, Cynthia, the
GRAVELL, DAVID (1787 - 1872), farmer, herbalist, and publisher Born 3 June 1787, son of Thomas and Mary Gravell of Cwmfelin, in the parish of Llandyfaelog, Carmarthenshire. He took to religion under the ministry of David Peter of Carmarthen. As a young man he suffered from bad health and this led him to experiment with herbal remedies; at the same time, he made the most of his friendship with (Sir) David Daniel Davis, the royal physician who was a native of
GRAY, THOMAS (1847 - 1924), mining engineer and local historian
GRAY, THOMAS - gweler GREY, THOMAS
GREEN, CHARLES ALFRED HOWELL (1864 - 1944), second Archbishop of Wales William Thomas Lewis, first Lord Merthyr, who survived him.
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 GRENFELL, Swansea industrialists nurse, intending to serve in the Franco-Prussian war, but returned to Swansea instead and devotedly nursed the poor. Contemporary newspapers said that 10,000 people spontaneously attended her funeral at Danygraig Cemetery in 1894. She was responsible for the foundation of St. Thomas Church in Swansea East, where a stained glass window is dedicated to her memory. Editorial note 2020: When Britain
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
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, SIDNEY (bu farw 1752), Methodist and associate of Howel Harris footnote in Cymm., xlv, 54, the letter of 1750 from Noah Jones of Walsall to Thomas Morgan in NLW MS 5459D, and Richard Bennett's references to satirical ballads of the Carmarthen countryside. It was certainly one (though only one) of the causes of the schism among Welsh Methodists in the years following 1750. But Bennett, a judicious researcher who had worked carefully through Harris's diaries and
teulu GRIFFITH PENRHYN, provide no support for the story of the grant by Llywelyn the Great. The pedigrees appear to have oversimplified a complicated process and, in particular, they attribute the marriage with Eva to the wrong generation and over-emphasize its importance. (Dwnn, Visitations, ii, 130-1; Thomas, ' Genealogical Account of the Families of Penrhyn and Cochwillan ' in Williams, Observations on the Snowdon
GRIFFITH(S), DAVID (1726 - 1816), cleric and schoolmaster As master of the grammar-school attached to Christ College, Brecon, he taught a group of distinguished men: Thomas Coke, Edward Davies ('Celtic Davies'), John Jones of Llandovery (the Greek lexicographer), Theophilus Jones, David Price (the Orientalist), and John Hughes of Brecon, who are all noticed in the present work. He was the son of Roger and Gwenllian Griffiths of the parish of S. Davids

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