Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, WILLIAM (d. 1718), Dissenting minister and academy tutor income and the pupils of a small school which he kept there. In 1702-3 he moved from Pencader to Carmarthen to superintend the Independent causes in that neighbourhood, to keep a school under the auspices of the S.P.C.K., and to act as tutor to young men preparing for the ministry; he kept up very close relations with his old flock at Pencader, and managed to secure for Independent worship the sometime
EVANS, WILLIAM (1779 - 1854), Wesleyan minister Born 25 October 1779 at Caernarvon. His father died before he was born and the cost of his education at Beaumaris was borne by his mother's family - she came from Pant Hywel, Llandegfan. After having been a barber at Amlwch and Caernarvon, he became a minister in 1806. His circuits were as follows: Cardiff (1806), Llangollen (1807), Llanrwst (1809), Pwllheli (1810), Holywell (1812), Beaumaris
EVANS, WILLIAM (1823 - 1900), cleric A native of Llangeler, Carmarthenshire, he was educated at S. David's College, Lampeter, where he was senior scholar and prizeman in Hebrew and divinity. Ordained, 1848, to the curacy of S. Mary, Cardigan, he was curate of Gelli-gaer, 1850-3, and of Troed-yr-aur, 1854-6; he became, 1856, vicar of Rhymney, Monmouth, where he remained until his death. He was one of the leading clergy in the diocese
EVANS, WILLIAM DAVIES (1790 - 1872), inventor of a chess gambit and travelling abroad. He died on 3 August 1872 at 29, Rue Christine, Ostend, Belgium, and is buried in the old cemetery in the town. The inscription on his gravestone reads: 'To the sacred memory of William Davies Evans, formerly Commander in the Post Office and Oriental Steam Services; Superintendent in the Royal Mail Steam Company, and inventor of the system of tri-coloured light for shipping
EVERETT, ROBERT (1791 - 1875), Independent ministers the latter place in 1838 to take charge of the churches at Steuben and Penmynydd; he died there 25 February 1875. In 1840 he started Y Cen-hadwr Americanaidd (The American Missionary), which, as he had his own printing press, he continued to edit and publish until his death. It became a very popular and valuable monthly. He also published other monthlies such as Y Dyngarwr and Y Detholydd, but they
FELD, VALERIE ANNE (1947 - 2001), politician encourage women's participation in Welsh politics, and the fact that 25 of the 60 original National Assembly members were women is due in large part to her influence. She took over the chair of the Economic Development Committee of the Assembly when Ron Davies stood down, but was forced to resign because of increasing ill-health in May 2001. She was also on the European Affairs and the Standards of
FFRANGCON-DAVIES, GWEN LUCY (1891 - 1992), actress Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies was born on 25 January 1891 in north London, the eldest of three children of David Ffrangcon-Davies, son of a foundry supervisor at Bethesda, Caernarfonshire, and his wife, Annie 'Nan' Raynor, the daughter of a Manchester doctor with a holiday cottage in Conwy. Gwen had a sister Marjorie (1893-1964), later a singer, and a brother Geoffrey (1895-1915) who was killed in a
FITZ WARIN family, lords Whittington, Alderbury, Alveston king's service. He was in conflict with Llywelyn ap Gruffydd in 1277 about lands in Bauseley, Montgomeryshire, and before 25 February in this year he married Margaret, daughter of Gruffydd ap Wenwynwyn by Hawise, daughter of John Lestrange (see the article on that family); Fulk died 1315; his widow died on 11 May 1336. [The direct male line came to an end in 1420, when the last of eleven successive
FITZGERALD, DAVID (d. 1176), bishop of S. Davids such an appointment. A compromise was reached by the election of David, for he was of both Welsh and Norman stock. He was consecrated bishop by archbishop Theobald on 19 December 1148 at Canterbury, and he undertook to acknowledge the authority of Canterbury as a metropolitan see with power over and above S. Davids. On 3 June 1162, along with Nicholas, bishop of Llandaff, he assisted in the
FITZGERALD, MICHAEL CORNELIUS JOHN (1927 - 2007), a friar of the Carmelite Order, priest, philosopher and poet John FitzGerald was born on 3 February 1927 at Ludlow in Shropshire, a son of Michael FitzGerald (1889-1949) and Martha Helena O'Sullivan (1896-1978) who moved to live in England in 1922 following the disbanding of the Royal Irish Constabulary of which the father was a member. Christened Michael Cornelius, he was the third of four children, the names of the others being (in order of age) Gerald
FLEURE, HERBERT JOHN (1877 - 1969), geographer was as a teacher that he was best remembered, his approach being thought-provoking rather than overlaid with facts. In 1910 he married Hilda Mary Bishop of Guernsey, formerly a student at Aberystwyth, and they had 3 children. On retirement in 1944 he moved to London and later to 66 West Drive, Cheam, Surrey, where he died 1 July 1969.
FLOWERS, BRIAN HILTON (Lord Flowers), (1924 - 2010), scientist and university administrator the Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology. In 1981 he became a prominent founding member of the Social Democratic Party, but returned to the cross-benches in 1989. Brian Flowers died at his home in Barnet on 25 June 2010, and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium on 1 July.

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