Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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, HENRY POWELL (1815 - 1886), cleric and author Born 2 January 1815 at Stanstead Bury, Hertfordshire, the second son of John Powell and Caroline Mary Foulkes. He was educated at King's School, Chester, Shrewsbury and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. 1837 and M.A. 1840. He was ordained deacon in June, 1839 with a title to the curacy of Halkin, Flintshire and in July of the same year he was ordained priest. He was given the
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, EDMUND (1768 - 1831), Sandemanian Baptist minister Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu, 1767 - 1850); it was Francis who supervised the publication of the hymnary edited by J. R. Jones of Ramoth; and in 1829 he published Welsh translations of three of the works of Archibald McLean. He died in December 1831, on the fifth according to his tombstone at Llanllyfni, on the eighth according to the Ramoth (Llanfrothen) church book. A granddaughter of his married the
FRANCIS, ENOCH (1688/9 - 1740), Baptist minister Glandŵr (Llandysul), or at Dre-fach, or (perhaps more probably) at Rhos-goch (Llanarth). About 1707 he began preaching, at Llanllwni; when he was ordained assistant to James Jones (died 1734), pastor of ' Tivy-side,' is not known, but it was obviously before 1721, the year in which he was selected to preach at the Baptist Association meeting (at Hengoed) in 1722. He had married (c. 1718) Mary Evans, of
FRANCIS, GEORGE GRANT (1814 - 1882), business man and antiquary The son of John Francis and Mary Grant and a brother to J. D. Francis, he was born at Swansea in January 1814, was educated at its grammar school, and spent the whole of his active life there. In 1840 he married Sarah, the eldest daughter of John Richardson, a Northumbrian settled in Swansea; they had three sons. He died in London 21 April 1882, but was buried in his native town. He was
FRANCIS, GRIFFITH (1876 - 1936), musicians Born at Bryn-y-wern, Cwm Pennant, Caernarfonshire. Griffith in December 1876 and Owen on 15 June 1879, the sons of William and Mary Francis. Their father, who was a good musician, was an official in Moelfre quarry; their mother 'Mair Alaw,' singer, was a native of Nantlle. The brothers became quarrymen. Griffith, who was a poet, published Telyn Eryri, containing poems dealing with the lives of
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
FRANCIS, MARY JANE - see EVANS, MARY JANE
FREEMAN, KATHLEEN (Mary Fitt; 1897 - 1959), classical scholar and writer in 1919, and first published her research in classical studies and then wrote a number of experimental novels. There was a clear interval in her published work between 1929 and 1936. When she resumed publication of serious works it was under the stress of war, her other energies having been directed at that time to the writing of detective fiction, which she published under the pseudonym of ' Mary
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

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