MORGAN
,
GRIFFITH
(‘
Guto Nyth-brân
’;
1700
-
1737
), a fabulous
cross-country runner
,
of
Llanwynno, Glam.
The few definite facts known of him, together with a mass of fable, will be found in the entertaining book
Plwy Llanwynno
, by
William Glanffrwd
Thomas
(q.v.)
. He is there said to have been b. in
1700
at
Llwyncelyn
, on the southern edge of
Llanwynno
, above
Hafod
(near
Pontypridd
), but his family soon moved to the adjoining
Nyth-brân
. He d. in
1737
—
dropping dead
after covering the twelve miles from
Newport, Mon.
, to
Bedwas
church in fifty-three minutes. There is a memorial on his grave at
Llanwynno
.
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D.,
F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor
