Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
GABE, RHYS THOMAS (1880 - 1967), rugby player
GALLIE, MENNA PATRICIA (1919 - 1990), writer Menna Gallie was born in the mining village of Ystradgynlais, Powys, the youngest of three daughters of William Thomas Humphreys, a carpenter from north Wales, and his wife Elizabeth (née Rhys Williams, 1885-1974). Although she celebrated her birthday on 17 March 1920, she was in fact born on 18 March, 1919. Her early years in a caring, Welsh-speaking home were strongly influenced by Labour
GAMAGE family Coety, Coity, and litigation. In 1412 William Gamage was involved in an attempt to expel Joan Vernon by force from Coety castle. He died in 1419, and in 1421 his lands were granted to the earl of Worcester during the minority of his heir, Thomas (aged 11 at his father's death) by Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Rodborough. THOMAS GAMAGE, who married Matilda, daughter of Sir Gilbert Dennis, and their son, JOHN, have
GAMBOLD family , 221, 224), we hear of the bishop trying to sell the manuscript to the lexicographer Thomas Richards of Coychurch (1710 - 1790) - the Morrises (i, 114, ii, 150, 233), more suo, disparage the work. Later (c. 1770), the manuscript came into the hands of another lexicographer, John Walters; today it is at the National Library of Wales. William Gambold published in 1727 A Grammar of the Welsh Language
GAPE, REES THOMAS - see GABE, RHYS THOMAS
GARRO JONES, GEORGE MORGAN - see TREFGARNE, GEORGE MORGAN
GEE, THOMAS (1815 - 1898), Calvinistic Methodist minister, journalist, and politician Born at Denbigh, 24 January 1815, son of Thomas Gee, printer, and Mary Foulkes of Hendre'r Wydd. Educated at Grove Park school, Wrexham, and Denbigh grammar school, he was apprenticed to his father at the age of fourteen. When he had completed his apprenticeship he was employed from 1836 to 1838 by the firm of Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, returning to his father's business at Denbigh in 1838
GEORGE, THOMAS (fl. 1829-1840), miniature painter miniature on ivory of Richard Bird at the Victoria and Albert Museum. This carefully painted miniature is signed 'Painted by T. George. London Oct. 1826.' The late Sir Thomas Barry Jones possessed a miniature by George which was probably a self-portrait and which the artist gave shortly before his death to his brother Henry who lived at Fishguard. The National Museum of Wales has one miniature by him and

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