Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS-WILLIAMS, LAURA (1883 - 1944), singer she taught singing till her death there on 5 October, 1944. She was buried at Henllan. She had married, in 1905, R.T. Williams, and she was survived by a daughter and a son.
FISHER, JOHN (1862 - 1930), Welsh scholar Born on 5 January 1862, at Cilcoll, Llandebïe, being the eldest son of Edward and Mary Fisher. He was educated at the national school, Llandeilo-Talybont (Pontardulais), Llandovery school, and S. David's College, Lampeter, where he graduated B.A., in 1884, and B.D. in 1891, having been scholar and prizeman. Ordained deacon in 1885, and priest in 1886, he held curacies at Pontbleiddyn
FITZ WARIN family, lords Whittington, Alderbury, Alveston the oral tradition which underlay it, is attested by the fairly frequent references to ' Syr Ffwg ' or ' Ffwg ap Gwarin ' in the poets, e.g. Gruffudd ap Maredudd (in his awdl to Owain Lawgoch, Poetry of the Red Book of Hergest, p. 107, lines 24-5), Iolo Goch, Guto'r Glyn, Dafydd Nanmor, Tudur Aled (consult the indexes to the modern editions of their poetry), and Wiliam Llyn (ed. Morrice, p. 53, line
FITZGERALD, MICHAEL CORNELIUS JOHN (1927 - 2007), a friar of the Carmelite Order, priest, philosopher and poet decided to remain in the Order, he proceeded to the Jesuit College at Milltown, Dublin, to study theology for four years, and in 1951 he was ordained priest. Following that, he rose to higher levels of study when he spent a year reading theology at Rome (1952-3) and then two years reading Classics at Christ College, Cambridge (1954-5), where he obtained a first class Honours degree. He also met many
FOSTER, IDRIS LLEWELYN (1911 - 1984), Welsh and Celtic Scholar was appointed Head of the Department of Celtic at the University of Liverpool, where he remained for eleven years, apart from a period of three and a half years (1942-5) which he spent at Cambridge during the Second World War as a member of the intelligence division of the naval staff: there he learnt Serbo-Croatian. In 1947 he was elected Jesus Professor of Celtic in the University of Oxford
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, DAVID (1911 - 1981), trade unionist and miners' leader Dai Francis was born on 5 February 1911 at Glynhelig House, New Road, Pantyffordd in Seven Sisters, near Neath in the Dulais Valley, the second of the six children of Thomas Francis, a coal hewer, and his wife Winifred (née Morgans). Thomas Francis had voted regularly for the Labour Party from 1918 onwards and was the only one in the village to buy the Daily Herald each morning. Welsh was the
FROST, WILLIAM FREDERICK (1846 - 1891), harpist fynyddig ' and ' Hoff fryniau fy ngwlad ' being at one time very popular. He died 25 February 1891 at 5 The Parade, Cardiff.
GAMBOLD family College in 1694, but there is no record of graduation. On 1 December 1709 (West Wales Records, ii, 226, iii, 250) he became rector of Puncheston with Llanychaer, Pembrokeshire, but it would seem that he had previously been curate there, for in November 1707 (Cymm. Trans., 1904-5, 186) he was keeping school at Llanychaer. His son tells us that he was a most devoted parish priest. At Oxford he had been a
GEOFFREY (1090? - 1155), bishop of St Asaph and chronicler between 1134-5, because Ordericus Vitalis quotes from it in his Historia Ecclesiastica (1135). The Historia Regum Britanniae is divided into six sections (or twelve books according to the editors) in which Geoffrey gives the 'history' of the Britons from the coming of Brutus to the arrival of the Saxons; but it is evident that the author did not set out to extol the deeds of the Britons of Wales
GIBBON, JAMES MORGAN (1855 - 1932), Independent minister Born at Pont-Seli, Abercŷch, Pembrokeshire, 1855. He was a member of Bryn Seion (Cenarth, Carmarthenshire) church where Evan Herber Evans also was brought up. He was educated at Newcastle Emlyn and the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen (1872-5). In 1875 he was ordained minister of Tre-lech; he joined the English connexion and was minister at Castle Street, Swansea (1880-5); Highgate, London (1885
GLYNNE family remained until 23 May 1648. He was elected M.P. for Caernarvonshire, 1654-5, and April-December 1660. With keen political foresight he resigned his legal offices, and lost no time in favouring the return of the monarchy. He was knighted 16 November 1660, and soon afterwards made prime serjeant. He married (1) Francis, daughter of Arthur Squib, and (2) Anne, daughter of John Manning. He owned estates at

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