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EVANS, WILLIAM CHARLES
(1911 - 1988), chemist and biologist
scientist of international importance. He was a warm hearted Welshman committed to the countryside and the wildlife and literature of Wales. Uniquely he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society having spent almost the whole of his scientific career in Wales within 10 miles of where he was born. He died on his farm, Cae Ocyn in Llangaffo,
Anglesey
, 24 July 1988.
EVANS, WILLIAM EILIR
(Eilir; 1852 - 1910), cleric, poet, and journalist
Born 26 April 1852 at Garreg Lwyd, Cenarth, Carmarthenshire. He was originally an Independent and was admitted as a student to the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen. Then he joined the Anglican Church and in 1878 went to S. David's College, Lampeter. He held curacies at Llanfaelog (
Anglesey
), Devizes, and Aberdare, and was for a short period (having previously been master of the National school at
FARRINGTON, RICHARD
(1702 - 1772), cleric and antiquary
The son of Robert Farrington of Chester and Elizabeth (Jones) of Cefn Ysgwydd, Llechylched,
Anglesey
. In 1720 he entered Jesus College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1724. His first charge as curate may have been at Gresford, whence he removed to Bromfield. In 1739 he became attached to St Asaph Cathedral. In 1741 he was appointed vicar of Llanwnda-cum-Llanfaglan, residing at Dinas. In 1742
FOSTER, IDRIS LLEWELYN
(1911 - 1984), Welsh and Celtic Scholar
, President of the Court 1973-7). He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1954 and dubbed KBE in 1977. Foster died of heart disease on 18 June 1984 in the Caernarvonshire and
Anglesey
Hospital at Bangor and was buried in the graveyard of Glanogwen Parish Church in Bethesda: he had been brought up as a Calvinistic Methodist and never ceased to respect that tradition, but with the passage of
FOX, Sir CYRIL FRED
(1882 - 1967), Director of the National Museum of Wales
Museum of Wales. During his time as Director, Fox continued to work in the field of archaeology and the Museum published several of his works, amongst them The personality of Britain (1932), A find of the early Iron Age,
Anglesey
(1946) and (with Lord Raglan) Monmouthshire houses (1951-54). He also surveyed Offa's Dyke, the results of which were published in issues of Arch. Camb. After his retirement
FOXWIST, WILLIAM
(1610 - 1673), lawyer, judge and Member of Parliament
puisne justice of Brecknock circuit; in 1660, judge advocate of Chester circuit; was M.P., Caernarvon 1647-8,
Anglesey
1654-5, Swansea 1659, and S. Albans 1660; and acted as steward for manors of sequestered Royalists under the Committee for the Advance of Money. A moderate Parliamentarian and a supporter of the protectorate, he seems to have succeeded in making his peace at the Restoration. [See
FRANCIS, EDMUND
(1768 - 1831), Sandemanian Baptist minister
Probably an
Anglesey
man, for his mother Lydia Francis was baptized at Amlwch; he too was baptized there, 8 October 1786. He had begun preaching before 1790, and on 1 December 1795 was ordained as assistant to Christmas Evans. Evans was at that time a Sandemanian; unlike him, Francis held to those views for the rest of his life. In 1799 he removed to Caernarvon, as clerk to Richard Roberts (a
FRIMSTON, THOMAS
(Tudur Clwyd; 1854 - 1930), Baptist minister, historian and antiquary
to Baptist periodicals, especially on Flintshire Baptists in Y Greal, 1907-10, 1917, and on
Anglesey
Baptists in Seren Gomer, 1925-6. Other works by him were published, e.g. Y Cyssonydd Ysgrythyrol, 1885; Crefydd ym Mhlwyf Rhiwabon, 1890; Ofergoelion yr Hen Gymry (n.d.); and Holwyddoreg Ysgrythyrol (n.d.); and he was a contributor to Y Gwyddoniadur Cymreig. He also won two prizes for essays
GAMBOLD
family
There was a family of this name in Cardigan town in the 17th and 18th century. When Lewis Morris of
Anglesey
was imprisoned at Cardigan in 1753, and released on bail (Morris Letters, f.n. on i, 223), he stayed at the house of a William Gamold - conceivably, but not very probably, the William Gambold with whom the present notice closes. Further, a Gambold or ' Gambwll' is repeatedly mentioned in
GLYN
family Glynllifon,
English kings. The first wife was Ellen Bulkeley of Beaumaris, and by her Robert had six sons and four daughters. Two of these sons were prominent clerics in the early Tudor period - MORUS GLYN, LL.D., died 1525, was archdeacon of Merioneth, and WILLIAM GLYN, LL.D., died 1557, archdeacon of
Anglesey
. Robert ap Meredydd's second wife was Jane Puleston of Caernarvon, and the issue of their marriage was
GLYN, WILLIAM
(1504 - 1558), bishop
Born in 1504, son of John Glyn of Heneglwys,
Anglesey
, Glyn was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge (B.A. 1527, M.A. 1530, B.D. 1538, D.D. 1554); he became Fellow of Queens ', 1530; was one of original Fellows of Trinity, 1546; and was vice-master of Trinity, 1546-51. Like his friend and contemporary, Thomas Thirlby (see D.N.B.), he seems to have accepted the religious changes of Henry VIII's
GORONWY GYRIOG
(fl. c. 1310-1360), poet
Father, apparently, of the poet Iorwerth ab y Cyriog. No details are known concerning him, but examples of his work are found in the ' Red Book of Hergest ' and other manuscripts. They include an awdl addressed to Madog ab Iorwerth, bishop of Bangor, and an elegy to Gwenhwyfar, wife of Hywel ap Tudur of
Anglesey
(brother to Goronwy of Penmynydd). It appears that he was also the author of at least
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