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John Griffith (1687–1739)

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Griffith married Ann Lloyd, daughter of Pierce Lloyd of Lligwy and Llanidan under a settlement dated 18 June 1718 and had one son. His son was still a minor when Griffith died on 6 June 1739, and this ended his family's representation of the county in Parliament.
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in succession to his brother at a by-election on 27 April 1715. He was returned unopposed at the general elections of
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Griffith was the second son of John Griffith and his wife Elizabeth Bulkeley, daughter of
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on 8 June 1703, aged 15. He succeeded to the estate of his elder brother
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Welsh constituencies
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"GRIFFITH family"
Dictionary of Welsh Biography
National Library of Wales
"'Greenhill-Gysby', in Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, ed. Joseph Foster (Oxford, 1891), pp. 600-625"
"GRIFFITH, John (?1687-1739), of Cefnamwlch, Caern"
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William Griffith
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John Wynn
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