GRIFFITH, ROWLAND, son of Griffith Griffith, Caernarvonshire; b.; at school (aged 12) 2 Jul 1582; QS; a contributor to verses written by QSS to Queen Elizabeth c. 1586 (Salisbury MSS, Hatfield); Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 8 Dec 1587; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 20 Nov 1594.

GRIFFITH, RICHARD, son of Thomas Griffith, London; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1755; an apothecary in London; d. 11 Aug 1817. [probably of Bedford Street, Covent Garden, will proved PCC 20 Sep 1817]

GRIFFITH, JOHN, second son of Rev. Richard Griffith, Vicar of Bangor, Caernarvonshire, and Rector of Trefdraeth, Anglesey; b. 22 Sep 1789; in school list May 1803; KS 1804; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1808, adm. pens. 28 May 1808, scholar 1809, matr. Mich. 1808; Second Bell University Scholar (third year man) 1810; 8th Wrangler 1812; BA 1812; MA 1815; BD 1822; DD 1831 (adm. ad eundem Oxford 1848); migr. to Emmanuel Coll. 3 Jul 1814, Fellow 3 Apr. 1814, Tutor 1817-28; ordained deacon (Norwich) 18 Dec 1814, priest (Bristol) 17 Jun 1815; Curate, Babraham, Cambs.; Chaplain to William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (qv), on his embassy to China 1816; wrecked on his return journey and introduced to Napoleon at St. Helena; Whitehall Preacher; Prebendary of Rochester 26 Nov 1827 – Jul 1872; Vicar of Aylesford, Kent 25 Jan 1831-2; Vicar of Boxley, Kent 17 Apr 1832-53; Vicar of Thornton Curtis, Lincs., 13 Apr 1832-51; endowed St. Mary’s church, Strood, Kent, and contributed towards restoration of Rochester Cathedral; undertook at his own expense the prosecution of Sir John Dean Paul, Bart. (qv) and his partners for forgery; m. Mary Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. James Barber, Hildersham Hall, Cambs.; d. 29 May 1879.

GRIFFITH, GLYN WILLIAM EVAN, son of David Hanmer Griffith (qv); b. 11 Dec 1847; adm. 30 May 1861 (James'); QS 1862; left Apr 1866; Vice-Consul, Tampico, Mexico 5 Dec 1893; acting Consul-Gen., Havana 1899; Vice-Consul, Havana 8 Feb 1905; chargé d’affaires, Havana, 1905, 1906-7, Tunis 1 Nov 1907; Consul for Paraguay at Asuncion 10 Sep 1908; transferred to Quito, Ecuador, with rank of First Secretary, 13 Dec 1910, also acting as chargé d’affaires there; retd. 12 Dec 1912; acting Consul at Asuncion 1914.

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.

GRIFFES, CHARLES, son of William Griffes, Stepney, Middlesex, shipowner, and Hannah ---; b. 31 Jul 1733; in school list 1744; KS (aged 15) 1749; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1753, matr. 27 Jun 1753, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1753 – void 1767; BA 1757; MA 1760; ordained deacon (Oxford) 2 Mar 1760, priest 15 Feb 1761 (Lichfield, lit. dim. from Lincoln). [Russell Barker & Stenning give father’s Christian name as Richard, in error]

GRICE (or GRYS), HENRY; b.; adm.; QS in 1569; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1573, adm. scholar 1574, matr. Easter 1574; BA 1577/8; MA 1581; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1579 – c. 1588.

GREY (or GRAY), NICHOLAS; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1606, matr. 5 Dec 1606, aged 16, Westminster Student to 1618/9; BA 1610; MA 1613 (incorp. Cambridge 1614); DD Cambridge 1631/2; ordained; Head Master, Charterhouse Sch. 3 Dec 1614-24, when he forfeited his post by marrying contrary to the statutes; Head Master, Merchant Taylors’ Sch. 29 Jan 1624/5 – Midsummer 1632; Rector of Castle Camps, Cambs., 1630-44; Head Master and Fellow, Eton Coll. Midsummer 1632; ejected both from Eton and from his rectory during Civil War; Headmaster, Tonbridge Sch., from 1649; Rector of Saffron Walden, Essex, 1652; restored to Fellowship at Eton and to Rectory of Castle Camps 12 Jul 1660; wrote some additions to Rider’s Dictionary and added testimonies from scripture to Grotius’s Baptizatorum Puerorum Institutio, 1655; m. Isabella ---; buried Eton College Chapel 5 Oct 1660. DNB.

GREVILLE, JOSHUA, brother of Robert Greville (qv); b.; adm. 15 Jan 1782; KS 1786 (aged 15); elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1790, adm. pens. 8 Jun 1790, aged 19, scholar 6 May 1791, matr. Mich. 1790; BA 1794; MA 1797; ordained deacon 3 Jan 1795, priest 18 Dec 1795 (both Bristol); Curate, St. George’s, Hanover Square, London Jun 1793 [check] – Jun 1820; Vicar of Duston, Northants., from 19 Jul 1811; Rector of Morborne, Hampshire 24 Apr 1827-31; Curate, Abingdon, Berks., from 1841; m.; d. 19 Feb 1851.