Dictionary of Welsh Biography

FIELD, THEOPHILUS (1574 - 1636), bishop Born 1574. He was bishop of Llandaff 1619-27, S. Davids, 1627-35, and Hereford, 1635-6. His somewhat notorious career is recounted in the D.N.B. His name is included in the present volume merely because it was he who lent ' The Book of Llandav ' to John Selden (Field was the last bishop to write his name in that book); thus it was that Llandaff never recovered the manuscript, which passed from
FISHER, JOHN (1862 - 1930), Welsh scholar examiner at S. David's College, Lampeter, in 1905-9. From 1917 he was a member of the governing body of the Church in Wales. Joining the Cambrian Archaeological Association in 1899, he succeeded canon R. Trevor Owens as general secretary in 1914. For a time, during the 1914-19 war, he was editor as well. Relinquishing the secretaryship in 1917, he retained the editorship till 1925, when he was elected
FITZ ALAN family, lords of Oswestry and Clun, and later earls of Arundel John attacked and burned Oswestry in 1216, as JOHN FITZ ALAN I (died 1241), one of his opponents, was friendly with Llywelyn the Great till 1217. John was one of the Crown representatives in a dispute between Henry III and Llywelyn the Great in 1226, while in the same year he mediated in a dispute between William Pantulf, lord of Wem, Salop, and Madog ap Gruffydd. During the conflict between Henry
FITZ WARIN family, lords Whittington, Alderbury, Alveston king's service. He was in conflict with Llywelyn ap Gruffydd in 1277 about lands in Bauseley, Montgomeryshire, and before 25 February in this year he married Margaret, daughter of Gruffydd ap Wenwynwyn by Hawise, daughter of John Lestrange (see the article on that family); Fulk died 1315; his widow died on 11 May 1336. [The direct male line came to an end in 1420, when the last of eleven successive
FITZGERALD, MICHAEL CORNELIUS JOHN (1927 - 2007), a friar of the Carmelite Order, priest, philosopher and poet John FitzGerald was born on 3 February 1927 at Ludlow in Shropshire, a son of Michael FitzGerald (1889-1949) and Martha Helena O'Sullivan (1896-1978) who moved to live in England in 1922 following the disbanding of the Royal Irish Constabulary of which the father was a member. Christened Michael Cornelius, he was the third of four children, the names of the others being (in order of age) Gerald
FLEURE, HERBERT JOHN (1877 - 1969), geographer Born in Guernsey, 6 June 1877, the son of John Fleure (1803 - 1890) an accountant and Marie (née Le Rougetel) his wife. He was blind in one eye and his attendance at the States Intermediate School, Guernsey, 1885-91, was irregular because of poor health. Despite illness he continued his studies at home, learning from books and his natural environment; he passed the London matriculation
FLOWERS, BRIAN HILTON (Lord Flowers), (1924 - 2010), scientist and university administrator enthusiastic teacher named Mr Foukes. He went on to study at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, reading Physics and Electronics. He gained his degree in two years with such brilliance that before he was 20 the physicist John Cockcroft had recruited him for the Anglo-Canadian Atomic Energy Project in Canada, where he spent two years from September 1944. He returned to Britain in 1946 to work at the
FLOYD, JOHN - see LLOYD, JOHN
FOLEY, Sir THOMAS (1757 - 1833), admiral admiral in 1825, and died 9 January 1833 at Portsmouth, where he was commander-in-chief. His naval career is fully described in D.N.B.; it remains to deal here with his Welsh associations. He was descended from a John Fawley or Foley, architect to the bishop of S. Davids, and ' constable of Llawhaden castle,' who was granted the estate by the bishop (Adam Houghton) in 1383. A Foley was constable of
FOLLAND, HENRY (1878 - 1926), industrialist William Firth, another Director of the Grovesend Company, forming an aggressive and successful team, which was to merge with Richard Thomas and Co in 1923 to form the biggest tinplate company in Europe. In 1906 he married Leah Norah (Lily) Thomas (1874-1957), a schoolteacher from Penclawdd, daughter of the Rev. John Thomas. They had two children, Pattie Eugenie (born 1906) and Dudley Crofton (born 1912
FOOT, MICHAEL MACKINTOSH (1913 - 2010), politician, journalist, author ), John Foot (Baron Foot, 1909-1999), Margaret Elizabeth Foot (1911-1965), Jennifer Mackintosh Highet (1916-2002), and Christopher Isaac Foot (1917-1984). He was educated at Forris School in Swanage and Quaker High School, Leighton Park, Reading, from where he went to Wadham College, Oxford to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He made an impression at Oxford and was elected president (the
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

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