Dictionary of Welsh Biography

FOULKS, THOMAS - see FOULKES, THOMAS
FOXWIST, WILLIAM (1610 - 1673), lawyer, judge and Member of Parliament Born at Caernarvon 1610, heir of Richard Foxwist by Ellen, daughter of William Thomas of Aber. In 1628 he matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, 1636, entered Lincolns Inn 14 February and was called to the Bar 17 May 1645. He became recorder of S. Albans; was elected (1649) bencher of Lincoln's Inn 6 February He was appointed in 1646 judge of the admiralty for North Wales; in 1655-9 he was
FRANCIS, ABEL (d. c. 1743), Arminian Baptist minister son of Francis Thomas Francis and second-cousin of the more famous Enoch Francis, was for many years assistant-pastor of ' Tivy-side church,' probably labouring mainly around Pencarreg, Carmarthenshire, where he lived - in the record of his marriage in 1733 (printed in Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes Bedyddwyr Cymru, 1948-9, 52) he is described as 'of or nigh Llanybydder.' In 1729 he adopted Arminian
FRANCIS, DAVID (1911 - 1981), trade unionist and miners' leader Dai Francis was born on 5 February 1911 at Glynhelig House, New Road, Pantyffordd in Seven Sisters, near Neath in the Dulais Valley, the second of the six children of Thomas Francis, a coal hewer, and his wife Winifred (née Morgans). Thomas Francis had voted regularly for the Labour Party from 1918 onwards and was the only one in the village to buy the Daily Herald each morning. Welsh was the
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, GWYN JONES (1930 - 2015), forester Gwyn Francis was born on 17 September 1930 in Llanelli, the son of Daniel Brynmor Francis and his wife Margaret Jane (née Jones). He was educated at Llanelli Grammar School and went on to obtain an Honours Degree in Forest Botany in 1952 at the University College of North Wales, Bangor. After graduating he served for two years as a National Serviceman in the Royal Engineers. In 1954 he married
FRANCIS, JOHN OSWALD (1882 - 1956), dramatist Service and was an official of the National Savings Movement when he retired c. 1953, having received an M.B.E. for his work. But it is for his notable contribution to the revival of interest in drama in Wales that he is remembered. R.G. Berry and David Thomas Davies were contemporary playwrights. About 1910 he started writing plays for the Aberystwyth Old Students' Association. The Poacher, which was
FRANKLEN, Sir THOMAS MANSEL (1840 - 1928), public servant
FRIMSTON, THOMAS (Tudur Clwyd; 1854 - 1930), Baptist minister, historian and antiquary Born 28 July 1854 at Rhuddlan, son of Thomas, son of Thomas and Jane Frimston, and brother of John Frimston, pastor of Trehafod (died 1930). He was admitted to Llangollen Baptist College in 1876, and served the pastorates of Llangefni (1879-82), Brynhyfryd, Swansea (1882-7), Garn Dolbenmaen and Capel-y-beirdd (1887-93), Llangefni (1893-1904, when the Christmas Evans Memorial chapel was erected
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
FROST, WILLIAM FREDERICK (1846 - 1891), harpist won a prize for playing the harp at an eisteddfod held in Merthyr (1859). He won a scholarship given at the Swansea national eisteddfod, 1863, for singing 'Sweet Richard' and the eisteddfod committee arranged for him to receive lessons from Llewellyn Williams (Pencerdd y De). At the Chester eisteddfod, 1866, John Thomas (1826 - 1913) awarded him a pedal harp, valued at £50; he also won a triple harp

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