Griffith W. Griffith

He worked on the family farm until the age of 18, when he attended a school in Menai Bridge run by Cynffig Davies to prepare candidates for ordination.

He was involved in the preparation of a Welsh-language "short confession of faith" and book of services, serving as secretary of the committee responsible.

Griffith was also part of the committee that worked on a new Welsh translation of the Bible, and was a member of the Council and Court of Governors of University College, Bangor.

He also wrote various theological books: Paul y cenhadwr (1925), Rhai o gymeriadau'r Hen Destament (1927), Y Groes (1943), The Wonderful Life (1941), and Ffynnon Bethlehem (1948).

Griffith died in his son's home in Aberystwyth on 2 February 1967 and was buried in the chapel graveyard in Dwyran, Anglesey.

Front page of the earliest surviving copy of the Welsh newspaper Y Goleuad; 30 October 1869.