Dictionary of Welsh Biography

FLOWERS, BRIAN HILTON (Lord Flowers), (1924 - 2010), scientist and university administrator Brian Hilton Flowers was born on 13 September 1924 in Blackburn, the eldest of three children of the Reverend Harold J. Flowers (1894-1971), a noted Welsh Baptist preacher, and his wife Marian (née Hilton, 1897-1985). The family moved back to his father's native Wales in 1932, and Brian was educated at Bishop Gore Grammar School in Swansea, where his interest in physics was encouraged by an
FOLEY, Sir THOMAS (1757 - 1833), admiral Llawhaden during the Owain Glyn Dŵr rising; and several of the family are said to have been killed at the battle of Colby Moor (close by) in 1645. The admiral was the second of the three sons of JOHN FOLEY of Ridgeway (who had married a Herbert of Court Henry, Carmarthenshire), and had an uncle, THOMAS FOLEY (captain R.N., died 1758), who was with Anson on his voyage round the world, 1740-4. The eldest
FOLLAND, HENRY (1878 - 1926), industrialist ). The first family home was Frondeg in Glanamman, and then in the early 1920s they moved to a more substantial property, Llwyn Derw at Blackpill, Swansea. Henry Folland was very active in public life and held many offices, including Justice of the Peace, High Sheriff of Carmarthenshire, second President of University College Swansea, Vice President of the National Eisteddfod of Wales, and Chairman of
FOSTER, IVOR LLEWELYN (1870 - 1959), singer Llanishen, Cardiff. In 1962 his family gave £300 to set up memorial prizes in his name in the open baritone and the baritone under 25 competitions in the National Eisteddfod.
FOTHERGILL family, iron-masters The Fothergill family were from Kendal and from Cumberland. The first to travel southwards were two brothers, one of whom established a small iron-works in the Forest of Dean and was later connected with the iron-works at Tredegar and Sirhowy. They were Richard Fothergill I (1758-1821), and JOHN FOTHERGILL (1763-1828), of Bedwellty, Monmouth. The present note will deal only with Richard and his
FOULKES, ISABELLE JANE ('Issi') (1970 - 2001), deaf artist, designer and campaigner physiotherapy. Whilst the girls grew up the family retained their links with Wales through regular visits to see family members in Cardiff and holidays spent on the Gower Peninsula and around Llyn Tegid, Bala. Issi was born with cystic fibrosis, a terminal genetic condition which affects the lungs and other organs. She became profoundly deaf as a result of medication administered to combat a chest infection
FOXWIST, WILLIAM (1610 - 1673), lawyer, judge and Member of Parliament Thomas family of Coed Alun and Aber.] The will of William Foxwist, St. Albans, dated 1673, was proved that year.
FRANCIS, DAVID (1911 - 1981), trade unionist and miners' leader language of the hearth, and the family were devout Christians, regularly attending chapel three times each Sunday. Thomas Francis was a deacon at Onllwyn Congregational Chapel and a lay preacher. Dai Francis received his education at Onllwyn elementary school from 1915 until 1926, but failed his eleven-plus examination. During Dai Francis's boyhood the traditional localism and isolation of the western
FRANCIS, ENOCH (1688/9 - 1740), Baptist minister Born at Pant-y-llaethdy on the Teify, between Llanllwni and Llanybydder, son of Francis David Francis, of a family whose religious roots were at Rhydwilym; see the table by T. Shankland in Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes Bedyddwyr Cymru, 1911-12, which shows that at least eleven of the family became ministers. Enoch Francis's upbringing was in the 'Tivy-side church,' either at its first centre at
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
GALLIE, MENNA PATRICIA (1919 - 1990), writer at Neath Grammar School, her family having moved to nearby Creunant when she was ten, and then went on to University College, Swansea where she read for an English degree, and also studied Welsh under her uncle Stephen J. Williams. It was there that she met her future husband, philosophy lecturer Walter Bryce Gallie (1912-1998). They married on 13 July 1940, one month after her final examinations
GAMAGE family Coety, Coity, The family took its surname from Gamaches in the Norman Vexin, but it cannot be proved that the first immigrant Gamage came over with the Conqueror. A Godfrey de Gamaches (died c. 1176), who aided Henry II in 1154 held two knight's fees under the De Lacys in Herefordshire, and was rewarded by Henry in 1159 with the manor of Stottesden, Salop. His elder son, Matthew, adhered in 1204 to the French

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