Geoffrey Glyn (died 1557), also known as Geoffrey Glynne, was a lawyer, principally known as the founder of

Friars School, Bangor Friars School is a school in Bangor, Gwynedd, and one of the oldest schools in Wales. History 1557 Establishment The school was founded by Geoffrey Glyn who had been brought up in Anglesey and had followed a career in law in London. A friary ...

. He was born in Heneglwys,

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, the brother or half-brother of

William Glyn William E. Glyn (1859 – March 23, 1939) was an American based British male tennis player. William Glyn from the Staten Island Cricket and B.B. Club was a finalist in the first U.S. National Championships held in 1881 at the Newport Lawn Tenn ...

, later

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. A graduate of

Trinity Hall, Cambridge Trinity Hall (formally The College or Hall of the Holy Trinity in the University of Cambridge) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is the fifth-oldest surviving college of the university, having been founded in 1350 by ...

, he qualified as LL. B. in 1535 and LL. D. in 1539, and was an advocate at the Court of the Arches. He died at the ‘Arches in London’ (i.e.

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) in July 1557. In his will, dated 8 July and proved on 21st, he left the Friar House in Bangor, properties in

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and elsewhere, and £420 in cash towards the founding of the school which became

Friars School Friars School is a school in Bangor, Gwynedd, and one of the oldest schools in Wales. History 1557 Establishment The school was founded by Geoffrey Glyn who had been brought up in Anglesey and had followed a career in law in London. A fria ...

.W. Ogwen Williams in Jones, E. W. & Haworth, J. (eds.) (1957) ''The Dominican, No.66'', Friars School, pp.27-8

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People from Anglesey Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge 16th-century Welsh lawyers Founders of Welsh schools and colleges 1557 deaths {{Wales-bio-stub