GRIFFISE, CHARLES; b.; adm. (aged 14) Feb 1731/2; left 1733.
GRIFFITH, ---; b.; adm.; a pensioner Lady Day quarter 1564/5 (tutor, the Dean) (Chapter Muniments 54005).
GRIFFITH, ---; b.; adm.; BB 1680 (Chapter Muniments 33715).
GRIFFITH, ---; b.; in under school lists 1715, 1716 (spelled Gryffith on both occasions).
GRIFFITH, ---; b.; adm. Mich. 1806; left 1807.
GRIFFITH, CHARLES PAGE; b.; in school lists May and Oct 1803 (as Griffiths); left 1803.
GRIFFITH, DAVID HANMER, second son of Rev. Charles Griffith, Vicar of St. David’s, Brecon, and Anne --- (IGI); b. 14 Jan 1813; adm. 20 Jan 1826 (G); Jesus Coll. Oxford, matr. 8 Dec 1831; BA 1835; MA 1838; ordained deacon (Gloucester) 6 Jun 1836, priest (Ely) 4 Jun 1837; Vicar of Cadoxton juxta Neath, Glamorgan, from 1837; m. 1836 Mary, dau. of Rev. Glynn Bodvel Lewis, Caernarfon; d. 11 May 1875.
GRIFFITH, EDWARD; b.; in school lists 1727/8, 1729.
GRIFFITH, ENDYMION, son of John Griffith; b.; adm.; BB May 1656, in place of Thomas Knipe (BB 1652, qv); left 1657; the Chapter Muniments contain two undated petitions to the Governors relating to him, one from Alice Sanchye, widow, who “hath kept the said Endimion all this while with her own chardge”, the other from his father, stating that his son has been a Bishop’s Boy for about fourteen months and that he had “contracted with a West India merchant to take him for a tearme of years”, as his boy “by indisposition to learning, arising from the wildness of his nature, cannot easily be adapted and brought to the manners and discipline of this great schoole” (Chapter Muniments 43088, 43096).
GRIFFITH, GEORGE, third son of Robert Griffith, Carreglwyd, Anglesey; b. 30 Sep 1601; adm.; QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1619, matr. 12 Nov 1619, Westminster Student; BA 1623; MA 1626; BD 1632; DD 1634; an original scholar of Pembroke Coll. Oxford 1624; ordained; licensed to preach 1633; Chaplain to Right Rev. John Owen, Bishop of St. Asaph; Rector of Newtown, Montgomeryshire 1631 [check preferments]; Canon and Archdeacon of St. Asaph 1631/2; Rector of Llanymynech, Shropshire 1634; deprived of all preferments except the last during Civil War; described himself as an”episcopal presbyterian”; disputed with the itinerant preacher Vavasor Powell 1652-3; consecrated Bishop of St. Asaph 28 Oct 1660; one of the three bishops who drew up the form of baptism for adults; is said to have undertaken the translation of the revised prayer book into Welsh; author, Plain Discourses on the Lord’s Supper, 1684, and other works; m. Anne, dau. of Thomas Cobbe, The Grange, Micheldever, Hampshire; d. 28 Nov 1666. DNB.