Dictionary of Welsh Biography

FLYNN, PATRICIA MAUD (Patti) (1937 - 2020), musician, author, activist Patti Flynn was born in April 1937 in Butetown, then known as Tiger Bay, in Cardiff's docklands, to a family of mixed heritage. Her father, Wilmuth (known as Wilmot) George Young (1897 or 1901-1942), was born in the parish of St Maria, now St Mary, on Jamaica's North Coast, and came to Cardiff at the end of the First World War to seek work in the docks. On registration into the Royal Merchant
FOOT, MICHAEL MACKINTOSH (1913 - 2010), politician, journalist, author previous marriage. Foot was an eloquent and powerful orator, and during his time as MP for Plymouth Devonport he became a prominent advocate of the left-wing movement associated with Aneurin Bevan, which was also supported by a number of Welsh MPs, such as George Thomas, Tudor Watkins and Cledwyn Hughes. However, a bitter disagreement arose between Foot and Bevan on the question of nuclear weapons. As
FOULKES, HUMPHREY (1673 - 1737), cleric and antiquary son of David Foulkes, Llannefydd, Denbighshire. He graduated B.A., from Jesus College, Oxford, 1695, M.A., 1698, and D.D., 1720. Ordained priest in April 1700 he was instituted to the living of S. George, Denbighshire, in 1702. The prebend of Llanfair in the cathedral church of St Asaph was bestowed upon him in 1705 and he became rector of Marchwiel, Denbighshire, 1709-10, and sinecure rector of
FOULKES, WILLIAM (d. 1691), cleric and translator , and was buried on 9 January In 1685, he prepared for press Gweddi'r Arglwydd wedi ei hegluro, an exposition of the Lord's Prayer, by bishop George Griffith, and in 1688 published a Welsh translation of bishop Ken's Practice of Divine Love. He had a son, WILLIAM FOULKES, who graduated from Jesus College, Oxford, in 1699 (B.C.L. 1705, D.C.L. 1707). The name 'Gul. Fowkes LL.D. e coll. Iesu' appears at
FRANCIS, GEORGE GRANT (1814 - 1882), business man and antiquary
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
GAMBOLD family ); and in 1770 he published a Welsh Moravian hymn-book, Ychydig Hymnau allan o Lyfr Hymnau Cynulleidfaoedd y Brodyr (see Cymm., xlv, 112) - three of the hymns were taken from vicar Prichard, the other thirty-four were Gambold's own versions of English Moravian hymns; it must be confessed that they are rather stiff. Two of William Gambold's other sons deserve a word. The third son was GEORGE GAMBOLD
GARRO JONES, GEORGE MORGAN - see TREFGARNE, GEORGE MORGAN
GEOFFREY (1090? - 1155), bishop of St Asaph and chronicler , and provost of the college of secular canons in the church of S. George, Oxford, until 1149. Geoffrey is described as 'magister' in some of these documents. In 1151 he was appointed bishop of S. Asaph; he was ordained priest at Westminster on 11 February 1152 and consecrated bishop at Lambeth on 24 February 1152, but there is no evidence that he ever visited his see. The Welsh chronicles state that
GEORGE, - see LLOYD GEORGE
GEORGE, DAVID LLOYD - see LLOYD GEORGE, DAVID
GEORGE, THOMAS (fl. 1829-1840), miniature painter is said to have been born at Fishguard, although the date of his birth is uncertain as the Fishguard parish registers are incomplete for that period. H. M. Vaughan suggested that he was the Thomas, son of Thomas George, mason, and Ann, his wife, who was christened at Fishguard 28 May 1810, but Basil Long suggests that he was born in 1790. The latter date may be considered more likely as George

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