Dictionary of Welsh Biography

FARR, HARRY (1874 - 1968), librarian Cardiff Library, 1920-36. In the acquisition of MSS and other expensive items Farr was greatly helped by benefactors who either donated or provided the funds to purchase valuable collections, for example, the famous Havod collection of MSS, the cost of the purchase of which was defrayed by Mr. Edgar Evans of Ely in 1918. To Farr and his staff belongs the credit for organising the Welsh Book Festivals
FARRINGTON, RICHARD (1702 - 1772), cleric and antiquary the antiquities of Caernarvonshire, and was the host of Thomas Pennant when the latter toured the Caernarvon district. Farrington wrote three volumes of antiquarian interest - ' Numismata Dinlleana,' ' The Druid Monuments of Snowdonia,' and ' Celtic Antiquities of Snowdon '; the three manuscripts are now in the National Library of Wales. Through his connection with the Richardsons of Chester he
FENTON, RICHARD (1747 - 1821), poet and topographical writer poems (1773 and 1790); and he left many works in manuscript. [These manuscripts were bought in 1858 by Sir Thomas Phillipps, and are now in the Cardiff City Library; a selection was edited by John Fisher and published in 1917 as Tours in Wales, 1804-1813, by Richard Fenton. When in London, Fenton was a member of the Cymmrodorion and in 1778 was one of its two librarians; there is a kindly reference to
FFRANCON-THOMAS, DAVID - see THOMAS, DAVID FFRANGCON
FFRANGCON-DAVIES, GWEN LUCY (1891 - 1992), actress production exploring hope after war, Gwen played Eve in George Bernard Shaw's 1924 play-cycle, Back to Methuselah, again receiving many plaudits. This interwar period was a particularly rich one for Gwen. In 1925, in London, she played Tess in Thomas Hardy's own adaptation of his novel Tess of the Durbervilles. As Hardy was frail, the whole cast travelled to Dorset where Gwen performed the 'confession
FFRANGCON-THOMAS, DAVID - see THOMAS, DAVID FFRANGCON
FISON, ANNA (Morfydd Eryri; 1839 - 1920), linguist, poet and educator She was born on 14 February 1839, at Barmingham, Suffolk, the daughter of Thomas Fison by his second wife, Charlotte, and the youngest of his twenty children. She was educated in London, at Cheltenham, and on the Continent; she went to live with one of her brothers at Oxford, and became proficient in the classics and a number of modern languages. She began, too, to take an interest in Welsh at
FITZ ALAN family, lords of Oswestry and Clun, and later earls of Arundel Marches, captain of the array in Wales, and constable of Montgomery, while his son RICHARD II (1307? - 1376), was governor of Caernarvon castle, and life sheriff of the shire, justice of North Wales, and one of the most trusted supporters of Edward, the Black Prince, in Wales. At the start of the 15th century THOMAS FITZ ALAN (1381 - 1415), was one of a commission appointed to defend the Marches after
FITZGERALD, DAVID (d. 1176), bishop of S. Davids consecration of Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury; and on 19 May 1163 he was present at the council which pope Alexander III held at Tours, having taxed the clergy to cover his travelling expenses. Some time between 1148 and 1163 there was a dispute between him and the bishop of Llandaff about diocesan boundaries, and Gilbert, bishop of Hereford, offered his services as mediator between them. On 30 January
FOLEY, Sir THOMAS (1757 - 1833), admiral Llawhaden during the Owain Glyn Dŵr rising; and several of the family are said to have been killed at the battle of Colby Moor (close by) in 1645. The admiral was the second of the three sons of JOHN FOLEY of Ridgeway (who had married a Herbert of Court Henry, Carmarthenshire), and had an uncle, THOMAS FOLEY (captain R.N., died 1758), who was with Anson on his voyage round the world, 1740-4. The eldest
FOLLAND, HENRY (1878 - 1926), industrialist Henry Folland was born on 15 June 1878 in Waunarlwydd, Swansea, one of the four children of Thomas Folland, a steelworker from Llangwm in Pembrokeshire, and his wife Emma who was from Llanfynydd in Carmarthenshire. Both his parents were Welsh speakers, and Welsh was the language of the home. In 1891, at the age of twelve, Henry began work in a colliery in Gowerton, a mile or so away from his home
FOOT, MICHAEL MACKINTOSH (1913 - 2010), politician, journalist, author previous marriage. Foot was an eloquent and powerful orator, and during his time as MP for Plymouth Devonport he became a prominent advocate of the left-wing movement associated with Aneurin Bevan, which was also supported by a number of Welsh MPs, such as George Thomas, Tudor Watkins and Cledwyn Hughes. However, a bitter disagreement arose between Foot and Bevan on the question of nuclear weapons. As

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