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Rev. David Baines-Griffiths
Rev. David Baines-Griffiths (12 March 1868 – 1 February 1919) was born in Pwllheli, Wales to David Griffiths and Jane (Baines) Griffiths. He married Ellen Mary Budington Baines-Griffiths. His children were Hugh Budington Griffiths, Ruth Baker Baines Griffiths and Walter Denison Griffiths. He died in 1919, in Liverpool, England.
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Congregational Year-Book 1919: son of David and Jane (Baines) Griffiths, born Pwllheli, Wales, 12 Mar 1868; died 1 Feb 1919 Liverpool; married Ellen Budington 2 Jun 1892 Leyden. Family spelling Griffith.
Record spelling Griffiths / Baines-Griffiths; family-preferred Griffith. Clergyman and author (Our Brother of Joy, 1914; When Faiths Flash Out, 1917; Wesley the Anglican, 1919). Congregational Year-Book 1919 necrology: son of David and Jane (Baines) Griffiths; born 12 Mar 1868 Pwllheli, Wales; died 1 Feb 1919 Liverpool of heart failure after surgery. Lynch intro (6 Mar 1919) says buried in the village of his birth, Llandudno — birthplace conflict with Year-Book Pwllheli, not resolved. Married Ellen Budington 2 Jun 1892 at Leyden, Mass. Three children surviving 1919 = Walter, Ruth, and Hugh of the 1964 NYT notice.
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- Lynch intro (6 Mar 1919): died at Liverpool; buried in the village of his birth, Llandudno; Moody/Mount Hermon/Harvard; Edgehill Church NYC; NY Tribune reviewer.
While the book was in the press the author suddenly passed away at Liverpool. He was buried in the village of his birth, Llandudno, Wales. ... Mr. Baines-Griffiths went to America upon the advice of Mr. Moody ... He was educated at Mr. Moody's schools at Mount Hermon and at Harvard University. After serving in various churches he was finally called to the Edgehill Church, New York City ... FREDERICK LYNCH. London, March 6, 1919.
- Born Hawley 4 Jan 1841, daughter of Roswell and Bathsheba (Carter) Baker; m. Stephen B. Budington 15 Dec 1868; mother of Ellen Mary.
Ellen Mary, born May 26, 1870, the wife of the Rev. David Baines Griffiths, of Smith Centre, Kan.
- Library catalog author entry gives life dates 1868–1919 (bibliographic, not a vital record).
When faiths flash out : essays in spiritual replenishment / Author: Baines-Griffiths, David, 1868-1919 / Note: Revell, 1917
- Union Theological Seminary finding aid also indexes him as Baines-Griffiths, David, 1868-1919 (correspondent of Henry William Rankin).
Names: Rankin, Henry William, 1851-1937 -- : Correspondence Baines-Griffiths, David, 1868-1919 -- : Correspondence
- Maiden Baines; mother of Rev. David Baines-Griffiths.
BAINES-GRIFFITHS, DAVID, son of David and Jane (Baines) Griffiths, was born at Pwllheli, Wales, March 12, 1868. He came to the United States in 1886 ... He was married June 2, 1892, at Leyden, Mass., to Ellen Budington, who, with three children, survives. ... He was stricken while on a mission to the churches of Great Britain, speaking on Anglo-American unity, and died Feb. 1, 1919, at Liverpool, England, of heart failure following a surgical operation.
- Named as surviving son of Ellen Baines-Griffiths in 1964 (with Ruth; Hugh already deceased).
wife of the late Rev. David Baines-Griffiths, mother of Walter, Ruth and the late Hugh B. Griffiths