Dictionary of Welsh Biography

FOOT, MICHAEL MACKINTOSH (1913 - 2010), politician, journalist, author Michael Foot was born on 23 July 1913 at 1 Lipson Terrace, Plymouth, Devon, the fifth of seven children of Isaac Foot (1880-1960) and his wife Eva (née Mackintosh, 1877-1946). Isaac Foot was a solicitor in Plymouth and was the Liberal MP for Bodmin, Cornwall 1922-1924 and 1929-1935. Michael's siblings were also well-known, namely Sir Dingle Foot (1905-1978), Hugh Foot (Baron Carodon, 1907-1990
FOSTER, IVOR LLEWELYN (1870 - 1959), singer Born at Tramroad, Pontypridd, 1 March 1870, son of Ebenezer Foster and Sarah (née John) of Peny-graig, Rhondda, Glamorgan. He left school at the age of 12, and when he was 16 and working in a business with his uncle, William Richards, Dinas, Rhondda, he started to learn old notation in his spare time and competed in eisteddfodau. He won singing prizes at the Porth annual eisteddfod in 1892, 1893
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.
FOULKES, WILLIAM (d. 1691), cleric and translator Son (says Ashton) of a cleric called John Foulkes; he went to Jesus College, Oxford, in 1650 (his age at that time is not given), and graduated in 1653. He was sinecure rector of Cwm (near Rhuddlan) in 1660-1, rector of Llanfyllin (and also of Llanbrynmair) 1661-91 - together with Llanfihangel-yng-Ngwynfa after 1680 - and canon of St Asaph from 1662. He died at Llanfyllin at the beginning of 1691
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.
FRANCIS, DAVID (1911 - 1981), trade unionist and miners' leader , personal loyalty, and a warm humanity, became very much his own too. Francis became a coal miner in December 1926 when he joined his father at Onllwyn number 1 colliery, remaining there right through until 1959 (although in the late 1930s ill-health compelled him to become a surface worker). He represented the fifth generation of his family to work in the coal industry. On 19 December 1936 he married
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 OSWALD (1882 - 1956), dramatist up the sport of gliding. He died a bachelor on 1 October 1956 at 13 Dingwall Gardens, Golders Green, London, where he lived with one of his sisters.
FREEMAN, KATHLEEN (Mary Fitt; 1897 - 1959), classical scholar and writer Fitt '. During the war (1939-45) she lectured for the Ministry of Information and took part in the National Scheme of Education for H.M. Forces in south Wales. On 1 October 1946, when a senior lecturer in her department, she resigned to devote her time to travel, research and writing. In 1951 she was elected Chairman of the Philosophical Society of Great Britain and in the same year was admitted to
FRIMSTON, THOMAS (Tudur Clwyd; 1854 - 1930), Baptist minister, historian and antiquary ), and finally Old Colwyn (1904-30). He married 13 June 1882, Sarah Eleanor Roberts (died 1 May 1927), daughter of Edward Roberts, Llangollen; five children were born of the marriage. He died 12 May 1930. Frimston is best remembered for his researches into Welsh Baptist history, e.g. Ebenezer: Hanes Eglwys Fedyddiedig, Llangefni, 1897; Canrif o Ymdrechion Bedyddwyr Môn, 1902; and several contributions
GAMAGE family Coety, Coity, , daughter of Sir Roger Vaughan of Tretower. With him the Gamages are caught up by the Welsh bardic tradition. Morgan Gamage was receiving the issues of Coety in 1488; Rhisiart ap Rhys wrote an elegy upon his death. His son, THOMAS GAMAGE, was knighted in 1513. Rhisiart ap Rhys addressed two poems to him before that year, and Lewys Morgannwg afterwards. He is said to have been twice married (1) to Margaret
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

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