Dictionary of Welsh Biography

FOLLAND, HENRY (1878 - 1926), industrialist failure on 24 March 1926 whilst on holiday in Egypt. He is buried in Oystermouth Cemetery, Swansea. Frondeg was gifted by Mrs Folland in accordance with her late husband's wishes to the community of Glanamman, becoming the Amman Valley Cottage Hospital in 1935. The road on which it stood, Horney Road, was renamed Folland Road by the local Council in 1936. The house at Llwyn Derw was a Red Cross Hospital
FOOT, MICHAEL MACKINTOSH (1913 - 2010), politician, journalist, author the individual and the nations. Michael Foot died at his home in Hampstead, London on 3 March 2010 and his humanist funeral was held at Golders Green Crematorium on 15 March.
FOSTER, IDRIS LLEWELYN (1911 - 1984), Welsh and Celtic Scholar also to Welsh scholarship as a whole. Foster served a large number of learned and cultural institutions in both England and Wales. Here it is possible to mention only The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (whose Transactions he edited from 1953 till 1978), The National Library of Wales (Treasurer 1964-79, Vice-President 1977-84) and the National Eisteddfod of Wales (Chairman of the Council 1970-3
FOTHERGILL family, iron-masters Elizabeth, sister of James Lewis, Plas-draw, Aberdare, and after her death, married 31 December 1850, Mary Roden. He continued to sit in Parliament until 1880, when he retired to Tenby, where he died 24 June 1903. As a result of great changes in the manufacture of steel through the Bessemer process, and owing to coal strikes, the companies of which Fothergill was chief failed disastrously, as did so many
FOULKES, ANNIE (1877 - 1962), editor of an anthology Born 24 March 1877 at Llanberis, Caernarfonshire. Her father, Edward Foulkes (1850 - 1917), was an official at Dinorwig slate quarry, a man of wide literary culture and author of a number of articles in Welsh periodicals on 19th-c. English writers : Robert Williams Parry wrote a sonnet in memory of him. She was educated at Dr. Williams' School, Dolgellau, and at College de Jeunes Filles in Saumur
FOULKES, ROBERT (1743 - 1841), musician A native of S. Asaph. He was a glazier by trade. He was well-known as a singer to the harp and was adjudged the best (out of eighteen competitors) in an eisteddfod held at Caerwys, Flintshire, 1798. He died 24 December 1841.
FRANCIS, JONATHAN (1722/3 - 1801), Baptist minister
FROST, JOHN (1784 - 1877), Chartist Born 25 May 1784, son of John and Sarah Frost, Royal Oak Inn, Newport, Monmouth. Apprenticed to his grandfather as a bootmaker, he later became a draper's assistant in Bristol and London. He opened in business on his own in Newport about 1806, and, on 24 October 1812, married Mary Geach, a widow. Because of a family quarrel about the will of his wife's uncle he fell foul of Thomas Prothero, town
GABE, RHYS THOMAS (1880 - 1967), rugby player Born 22 June 1880 in Llangennech, Carmarthenshire. He played locally before representing Llanelli for the first time when he was 17 years old. He won the first of his 24 caps (1901-08) on the wing against Ireland on 21 March 1901. It was as a centre that he gained fame. He possessed all the skills; he was unyielding in defence, when attacking he ran straight and with determination. Deceptive
GEE, THOMAS (1815 - 1898), Calvinistic Methodist minister, journalist, and politician Born at Denbigh, 24 January 1815, son of Thomas Gee, printer, and Mary Foulkes of Hendre'r Wydd. Educated at Grove Park school, Wrexham, and Denbigh grammar school, he was apprenticed to his father at the age of fourteen. When he had completed his apprenticeship he was employed from 1836 to 1838 by the firm of Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, returning to his father's business at Denbigh in 1838
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
GIBBS, SION (fl. 1643), poet In NLW MS 719B: Barddoniaeth, 42, there is an englyn by him to Dr. John Davies, Mallwyd, written at Ludlow 30 January 1642-3, with John Davies's answer to him on the same page. See also B.M. MS. 14886, 61.

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