where they still remain.  He published two volumes of Welsh sermons, and was the author of an English poem, entitled the “Love of our Country;” but his chief work which ranked him high as an antiquary and critic, was a volume of Welsh poems with Latin translations, prefaced by a learned “Dissertatio de Bardis.”  The Welsh poems in this volume furnished Gray with matter for some of his most beautiful poetry.  Mr. Evans was a man of excellent disposition, and great abilities as a Welsh scholar, but for some reason he never obtained any preferment in the church.  He served in succession the curacies of Towyn in Meirion, Llanberis, and Llanllechid in Caernarvonshire.  He died suddenly at the place of his birth, in August, 1789.

Richard Fenton, well known as the author of a “Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire;” was born in Wales, and was for several years an eminent member of the Welsh bar.  He was also author of other works which were published anonymously, of which “A Tour in search of Genealogy,” and “The Memoirs of an Old Wig,” were highly esteemed as works of great interest, and abounding in wit and anecdote.  He was a particular friend of Garrick, Goldsmith, Glover, and other great wits of the day.  He translated also the works of Athenæus, which were never published.  He died at an advanced age in November, 1821.

John Gambold was born at Haverfordwest about the year 1706.  He received a liberal education, and was entered at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree of Master of Arts in 1734.  He was presented to the living of Stanton Harcourt by Archbishop Secker in 1738, which he resigned ten years after, from motives of conscience, having become a convert to the opinions of Zinzerdorf, an account of whose life and character he published.  He was appointed by the Moravians one of their bishops, of whom he had become a distinguished member in 1754.  While at Oxford, he was the author of a “Sacred Drama,” which was published in 1740, on the subject of the martyrdom of Saint Ignatius; and he superintended an edition of the Greek Testament at the Clarendon press; he translated also a History of Greenland from the Dutch, besides several sermons and other productions.  He was a man of blameless morals, deep erudition, and sincere piety; and he was greatly beloved for the amiableness of his manners.  He died at Haverfordwest in 1771.  He was author of a “Welsh Grammar,” and an able critic in the language.

William Glynn, D.D., was born in 1504, at Malltraeth in Anglesea, and educated at Cambridge, where he became Master of Queen’s College.  In 1549, he was presented to the living of St. Martin’s-le-grand, London; and in 1551 he was made rector of his native parish of Heneglwys, and in 1555 he was promoted to the episcopal see of Bangor, where he died in 1558, in the fifty-fourth year of his age.  Fuller, in his Worthies of Wales, gives a high character of this excellent bishop; and he was a man of great natural abilities and learning, and strictly attentive to the duties of his high station.

Edmund Griffith, D.D., was a native of Lleyn in Caernarvonshire, where he was born in 1570.  He was educated at Brazen-nose College, Oxford, whence he removed to Jesus College, where he graduated.  In 1599, he obtained the rectory of Llandwrog, and the following year he was made canon of Bangor; and after other preferments he was made dean of the same diocese in 1613, and he was promoted to the bishopric in 1633.  His death took place in the year 1637.

Elizabeth Griffith, who has distinguished herself in the literary world by several productions, was a native of Wales; she married an Irish gentleman of the name of Richard Griffith, and little is known of her except her works.  She first published “Letters of Henry and Frances,” which is supposed to contain the genuine correspondence of herself and her husband before, and for some time after their marriage.  She was the author of several dramas, novels, and several other productions, which obtained various success.  She died in 1793.

George Griffith, D.D., was born at Penrhyn, Caernarvonshire, in 1601.  He was educated at Westminster School, from whence he was elected student of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1619, where he became an eminent tutor and preacher.  He was appointed chaplain to Bishop John Owens, and was by him presented to the rectory of Llanvechain, Montgomeryshire, which he subsequently left for Llanymynech, and he also had the rectory of Llandrinio.  In 1631, he was made a canon of St. Asaph.  On the commencement of the civil war, he lost his preferment on account of his attachment to the royal cause, to which he rendered good service; but on the Restoration he was rewarded, and raised to the bishopric of St. Asaph.  In a convocation of the clergy in 1662, he was an active member in drawing up the Act of Uniformity, and making several alterations in the Liturgy; and he is supposed to have written the form for the baptism of those of riper years.  He was also author of some Plain Discourses on the Lord’s Supper.  He died in 1666.

John Gwillim was born of an ancient Welsh family in Herefordshire, in 1565.  He was educated at Brazen-nose College, Oxford, and became a member of the Herald’s College, London, in which he obtained the appointment of Rouge Croix Pursuivant, in 1617, which was owing to the appearance of his famous work, the “Display of Heraldry,” which first appeared in 1610, and has since gone through several other editions.  His death took place in 1621.

Matthew Gwinne, M.D., was an eminent physician, and was the first professor of medicine on Sir Thomas Gresham’s foundation.  The exact year of his birth is uncertain, but he was born in London of Welsh parents; and he received his education at Merchant Tailors’ School, whence he removed to St. John’s, Oxford, of which college he became a fellow.  He composed a Masque, which recommended him to King James the First, before whom it was performed in Oxford; and he rose higher in that monarch’s favour by an essay which he wrote against tobacco.  He was the author of various other poems and prose works.  He died in 1627.

John Hanmer, a member of the ancient family of the same name, living at Hanmer, in Flintshire, was educated at the University of Oxford, where he obtained a fellowship in All Souls College.  He subsequently became a prebendary of Worcester, and rector of Bingham, Nottinghamshire.  He was appointed chaplain to King James the First, who nominated him bishop of St. Asaph in 1623.  He died at Pentre-pont, near Oswestry, in 1629; and bequeathed several sums of money for charitable purposes.

Sir Thomas Hanmer, Baronet, was born in 1676, and succeeded to the title and estates of his uncle Sir John Hanmer, in Flintshire.  He was educated at Westminster School, and Christ Church, Oxford.  He commenced his parliamentary career in the representation of the county of Suffolk; and in 1713, he was elected speaker of the House of Commons, which honourable office he held until the end of his parliamentary life, which from its commencement lasted upwards of thirty years.  He then withdrew altogether from public life, and turned his attention to literature; he published an elegant edition of Shakspeare in six volumes, quarto, which was printed at Oxford in 1744; and he liberally presented the copyright to the University.  He died at his seat in Suffolk in 1746.

Howell Harris was born at Trevecka, in