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1 - 12 of 18 for "Fenton"

  • ALLEN, JOHN ROMILLY (1847 - 1907), archaeologist (Fenton, Pemb., 2nd ed., 150), and married Caroline Romilly - their second son was the antiquary's father. L. B. Allen was born 1 January 1774 and died 28 October 1845. His career is given in Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses
  • BOWEN family Llwyn-gwair, (Llan-gan) performed many missions in London on behalf of George Bowen - arranging financial matters and making inquiries about suitable schools to which Bowen's children might be sent. He was high sheriff of Pembrokeshire in 1803. Bowen played his part in the gathering together of troops to be used against the French who landed at Fishguard (1797). He was a good landlord; Richard Fenton and others
  • BOWEN, JOHN (1815 - 1859), bishop of Sierra Leone Son of Capt. Thomas Bowen of the Court, Llanllawer, near Fishguard (Fenton, Pembrokeshire, 1903 edition, 312), was born 21 November 1815. His father's family (originally from Haverfordwest) were landowners living at Leweston in Camrose and at Manorowen. His parents removed from the Court to Stonehall, and then in 1830 to Johnston Hall. In 1847 he inherited Milton, an estate in the parish of Carew
  • DAVIES, EDWIN (1859 - 1919), editor and publisher Cardigan, by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, 1907; A Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire, by Richard Fenton, 1903; and An Historical Tour of Monmouthshire, by Archdeacon William Coxe, 1904. He also compiled, edited, and published A General History of the County of Radnor, from the manuscript notes of Jonathan Williams and other sources, 1905, of which R. Mason, of Tenby, had published a much abridged edition
  • FENTON, RICHARD (1747 - 1821), poet and topographical writer Born in January 1747 at S. Davids, son of Richard and Martha Fenton. He was educated at the Cathedral school, S. Davids, and Magdalen College, Oxford [but Foster has no record of his matriculation. For many years he was a civil servant, at the Custom House in London, but in 1774 he had joined the Middle Temple ], and in January 1783 he was called to the Bar. He went on circuit in Wales for
  • FOLEY, Sir THOMAS (1757 - 1833), admiral son of John Foley, and the heir of Ridgeway, was JOHN HENRY FOLEY, a friend of Richard Fenton's, but dead by 1811 when Fenton published his Tour. When captain Foley (as he then was) married in 1802, he bought the estate of Abermarlais, Carmarthenshire, rebuilt the mansion, and made it his home; though he died childless, another branch of the family occupied it far into the 19th century - a Foley was
  • HOARE, Sir RICHARD COLT (1758 - 1838), 2nd baronet, historian and antiquary sometimes stayed at Fachddeiliog on the shores of Bala lake (see Richard Fenton, Tours in Wales, 1804-13, ed. J. Fisher for the Cambrian Arch. Assoc., in 1917). He examined antiquarian and 'romantic' sites and made scores of sketches, some of which are preserved in the National Library, as are some of his note books, e.g. NLW MS 5370C (a 'Sketch Book' for 1799) and two larger volumes in the Llangibby
  • HUGHES, ROBERT (Robin Ddu yr Ail o Fôn; 1744 - 1785), poet Fenton to the Society of Cymmrodorion; he had helped to found the Society of Gwyneddigion, was its secretary and treasurer for three years, and was its president in 1778. He helped Owain Myfyr to get together the works of the poets for publication. His health broke down in London and he came to Caernarvon where he opened a school in 1783. He died 27 February 1785, and was buried in Hen-eglwys
  • HYWEL SWRDWAL (fl. 1430-1460), poet writing poetry he wrote a history of Wales in Latin. According to Fenton, Hywel was a member of the commission appointed by Edward IV in 1460 ' to enquire touching the Progenie and Descent of the honourable Name and Family of the Herberts.' This suggests that he was on friendly terms with some of the gentry to whom he addressed cywyddau. He wrote an elegaic cywydd for Sir Watcyn Vaughan of Bredwardine
  • LEWIS, JOHN (d. 1616?) Llynwene, Llanfihangel Nant Melan, barrister, and author of The History of Britain Born in the parish of Pencraig (Old Radnor), son of Hugh Lewis and Sibyl, daughter of Roger ap Watcyn Fychan, Hergest. W. Rowlands (Llyfryddiaeth, see under 1729) connects him, in error, with Maenor Owen, Pembrokeshire, and describes him as a great-grandfather of Richard Fenton, the Pembrokeshire historian. It is unlikely that he is the John Lewis who entered Lincoln's Inn, 28 February 1562-3
  • LLWYD, RICHARD (Bard of Snowdon; 1752 - 1835), poet and authority on Welsh heraldry and genealogy instrumental in raising a monument to David Hughes, founder of the free school at which he had been educated; he failed in his efforts to erect a memorial to Owen Jones (Owain Myfyr). He had throughout life been interested in books, manuscripts, and records of the assistance which he gave to such writers as Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Richard Fenton, Peter Roberts, was duly acknowledged. He came to be considered
  • LORT family Stackpole, (who lived at Prickaston or Prickeston, near Castlemartin church - see Fenton, Pembrokeshire, 1903 ed., 223; today only a farmhouse), and SAMPSON, of East Moor, near Manorbier, who married a daughter of Sir John Philipps of Picton. All three 'trimmed' dexterously during the Civil Wars. In 1642 Roger was on the Parliament's Militia Commission for Pembrokeshire, but in the same year he and Sampson were