Dictionary of Welsh Biography

FIELD, THEOPHILUS (1574 - 1636), bishop Selden to his executor John Vaughan of Trawsgoed, thence (by marriage) to the house of Llannerch and Gwysaney (see Davies-Cooke family, Gwysaney), and so eventually to the National Library of Wales (N.L.W. Jnl., Summer 1946, 123-4). He died 2 June 1636.
FINCH, HAROLD JOSIAH (1898 - 1979), Labour politician He was born at Barry on 2 May 1898, the son of Josiah Coleman Finch, a railway inspector, and Emmie Keedwell. He was educated at Barry elementary school. He worked as a clerk to the Barry Railway Company, 1912-19, and then as a clerk in the Tredegar Valley District Miners' Office. He was secretary to the Tredegar District of the South Wales Miners Federation, 1919-34. He was compensation
FITZGERALD, DAVID (d. 1176), bishop of S. Davids , cardinal of S. Angelo and legate of England, to plead the claims of S. Davids to be a metropolitan see, claims which the bishop had renounced upon his consecration. On 8 May 1176 he died intestate, of a fever, and was buried at S. Davids. He was succeeded as bishop by Peter of Lee. His nephew Giraldus Cambrensis gives us a picture of him which is on the whole favourable, although he does criticize him a
FLYNN, PATRICIA MAUD (Patti) (1937 - 2020), musician, author, activist an adult, and she campaigned tirelessly for 26 years to ensure rightful recognition was given to the sacrifices of all Black and ethnic minority soldiers, like her father and brothers, who served their country in the World Wars. On 2 November 2019 her efforts were rewarded when a plaque was finally unveiled at the Welsh National War Memorial in Alexander Gardens, Cathays Park, Cardiff. As a child
FOULKES, HENRY POWELL (1815 - 1886), cleric and author Born 2 January 1815 at Stanstead Bury, Hertfordshire, the second son of John Powell and Caroline Mary Foulkes. He was educated at King's School, Chester, Shrewsbury and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. 1837 and M.A. 1840. He was ordained deacon in June, 1839 with a title to the curacy of Halkin, Flintshire and in July of the same year he was ordained priest. He was given the
FOULKES, ISAAC (Llyfrbryf; 1836 - 1904), newspaper proprietor and publisher cheap reprints of Welsh classics, rendered an inestimable service to the ordinary Welshman. Foulkes married (1) 1860, Anna Foulkes, Ruthin (died 1900), and (2) 1904, Sinah Owen, Hafod Elwy. He died suddenly at Rhewl, near Ruthin, 2 November 1904, and was buried at Llanbedr in the Vale of Clwyd.
FOX, Sir CYRIL FRED (1882 - 1967), Director of the National Museum of Wales Archaeological Society (1933), honorary fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge (1953). He married twice: (1) Olive Congreve-Pridgeon (died 1932), they had two daughters; (2) Aileen Mary Scott-Henderson, they had three sons. After retiring, he lived in Exeter and died there 16 January 1967.
FOXWIST, WILLIAM (1610 - 1673), lawyer, judge and Member of Parliament puisne justice of Brecknock circuit; in 1660, judge advocate of Chester circuit; was M.P., Caernarvon 1647-8, Anglesey 1654-5, Swansea 1659, and S. Albans 1660; and acted as steward for manors of sequestered Royalists under the Committee for the Advance of Money. A moderate Parliamentarian and a supporter of the protectorate, he seems to have succeeded in making his peace at the Restoration. [See
FRANCIS, EDMUND (1768 - 1831), Sandemanian Baptist minister Probably an Anglesey man, for his mother Lydia Francis was baptized at Amlwch; he too was baptized there, 8 October 1786. He had begun preaching before 1790, and on 1 December 1795 was ordained as assistant to Christmas Evans. Evans was at that time a Sandemanian; unlike him, Francis held to those views for the rest of his life. In 1799 he removed to Caernarvon, as clerk to Richard Roberts (a
FRANCIS, JOHN DEFFETT (1815 - 1901), painter and collector Christened in S. Mary's church, Swansea, 2 June 1815, the son of a Swansea coachbuilder, John Francis, and his wife Mary, and a younger brother of George Grant Francis, the antiquary. He devoted himself to painting, particularly portrait-painting, at an early age and eventually went to London where he became acquainted with Dickens, Thackeray, and Ruskin, and became one of the 'founders of the
FROST, JOHN (1784 - 1877), Chartist , the movement in Monmouthshire got out of hand, and at a secret meeting at the Coach and Horses Inn in Blackwood, on Friday, 2 November, it was decided to hold a great demonstration at Newport in the early hours of Monday morning, by three contingents of Chartists, one, led by Frost, to march from Blackwood, one under Zephaniah Williams from Ebbw Vale, and one from Pontypool under William Jones. The
GAMAGE family Coety, Coity, king, and the younger, William, got the Herefordshire estate, centred upon Mansel Gamages, and was favoured by John with parts of his brother's escheated lands at Stottesden and at Dillwyn, Herefordshire; he had the custody of Ludlow castle in 1224. He died c. 1239-40. By his wife, Elizabeth de Burghull, who seems to have been alive as late as 1304, he had a son, Godfrey, who died before 2 October

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