Dictionary of Welsh Biography

FOULKES, ISAAC (Llyfrbryf; 1836 - 1904), newspaper proprietor and publisher Born 9 November 1836 at Llanfwrog, Denbighshire, son of Peter and Frances Foulkes. He was apprenticed as a compositor to Isaac Clarke, Ruthin, but went to Liverpool on Christmas eve 1854, before completing his apprenticeship. He spent some years as a compositor in the Amserau printing office and then went to the printing works of David Marples. He set up a press of his own in 1862 at 28 King
FOULKES, THOMAS (1731 - 1802), early Methodist exhorter , daughter of Humphrey Jones, a prosperous Bala draper, perhaps the chief pillar of Methodism there in its early days, and a correspondent of Howel Harris's; she died in 1759. In 1761, Foulkes married Jane, widow of David Jones; her daughter by her first marriage, Sarah, was to become (1783) the wife of Thomas Charles; Jane Foulkes died 1785. His third marriage (1787) was with Lydia, the daughter of Simon
FOULKES, WILLIAM (d. 1691), cleric and translator , and was buried on 9 January In 1685, he prepared for press Gweddi'r Arglwydd wedi ei hegluro, an exposition of the Lord's Prayer, by bishop George Griffith, and in 1688 published a Welsh translation of bishop Ken's Practice of Divine Love. He had a son, WILLIAM FOULKES, who graduated from Jesus College, Oxford, in 1699 (B.C.L. 1705, D.C.L. 1707). The name 'Gul. Fowkes LL.D. e coll. Iesu' appears at
FRANCIS, DAVID (1911 - 1981), trade unionist and miners' leader
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
FRANCIS, GEORGE GRANT (1814 - 1882), business man and antiquary
FRANCIS, GWYN JONES (1930 - 2015), forester Meryl Jeremy from Carmarthen with whom he had three children, Richard, Kay and David. After Meryl's death in 1985 he married Audrey Gertrude Gemmel (née Gill) of Toronto, Canada. On the completion of his national service in 1954, he joined the Forestry Commission as a District Officer in Neath, with responsibilities related to the Commission's extensive young forests in the Afan, Neath and Dulais
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, JOHN OSWALD (1882 - 1956), dramatist Born 7 September 1882, son of David Francis, Dowlais, Glamorganshire and Dorothy (née Evans) his wife. He was one of the first pupils at Merthyr Tydfil Intermediate School and graduated at Aberystwyth and the Sorbonne, before becoming a school teacher at Ebbw Vale county school and later at Holborn Estate grammar school, London. After military service during World War I he entered the Civil
GAMBOLD family ); and in 1770 he published a Welsh Moravian hymn-book, Ychydig Hymnau allan o Lyfr Hymnau Cynulleidfaoedd y Brodyr (see Cymm., xlv, 112) - three of the hymns were taken from vicar Prichard, the other thirty-four were Gambold's own versions of English Moravian hymns; it must be confessed that they are rather stiff. Two of William Gambold's other sons deserve a word. The third son was GEORGE GAMBOLD
GARRO JONES, GEORGE MORGAN - see TREFGARNE, GEORGE MORGAN
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

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