Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
FLYNN, PATRICIA MAUD (Patti) (1937 - 2020), musician, author, activist music of the Great American Songbook composers. In 2006 she sang with Dame Cleo Laine and Sir John Dankworth at a Jazz Heritage Wales event. She joined with her musician friends, sisters Humie and Jackie Webbe, to create The Bay Divas trio. The aim at the outset was to celebrate the musical heritage of Tiger Bay, from the 20s and 30s through to the 50s. They performed in St David's Hall and the Donald
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 preparations had to be made for a referendum. Foot steered the bills through the House of Commons in 1977, although the only other member of the Cabinet who showed any enthusiasm for the Assembly was John Morris. The result of the referendum in March 1979 was a huge disappointment for Foot, but before that Cledwyn Hughes had paid tribute to his efforts in his diary on 22 February 1978: He has made a greater
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
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 , ceramics, and clothing that helped raise awareness of deaf culture and heritage. She exhibited her work at exhibitions of deaf art in Cardiff, Liverpool, Manchester, and London. One of her paintings, 'Multi-coloured hearing aids' is, according to deaf artist John Wilson, in a 1997 magazine article: 'a clever pastiche that makes use of the bold styles of the 1960's Pop Art movement to transform the humble
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
FOULKES, ISAAC (Llyfrbryf; 1836 - 1904), newspaper proprietor and publisher issued from his press were Dafydd ap Gwilym, 1873, Y Mabinogion Cymreig, 1880, Iolo Manuscripts, 2nd ed., 1888, Philip Yorke, The Royal Tribes of Wales, 1887, and John Fisher, The Cefn Coch MSS., 1899. He published some outstanding biographies, including those of Thomas Charles Edwards, John Hughes (1827-1893), Daniel Owen the novelist, John Ceiriog Hughes (Ceiriog), and the poems and letters of
FOULKES, PETER (1676 - 1747), scholar and divine instituted rector of Cheriton Bishop, Devon, in 1714 and vicar of Thorverton, 1716. His first wife, Elizabeth Bidgood of Rockbeare, Devon, whom he married in 1707, diedin 1737. In December 1738 he married Anne Holwell, a widowed daughter of bishop Blackall of Exeter. While still an undergraduate he published, in conjunction with John Freind, an edition of Aeschines against Ctesiphon and Demosthenes on the

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