Dictionary of Welsh Biography

FLEURE, HERBERT JOHN (1877 - 1969), geographer Born in Guernsey, 6 June 1877, the son of John Fleure (1803 - 1890) an accountant and Marie (née Le Rougetel) his wife. He was blind in one eye and his attendance at the States Intermediate School, Guernsey, 1885-91, was irregular because of poor health. Despite illness he continued his studies at home, learning from books and his natural environment; he passed the London matriculation
FOOT, MICHAEL MACKINTOSH (1913 - 2010), politician, journalist, author Michael Foot was born on 23 July 1913 at 1 Lipson Terrace, Plymouth, Devon, the fifth of seven children of Isaac Foot (1880-1960) and his wife Eva (née Mackintosh, 1877-1946). Isaac Foot was a solicitor in Plymouth and was the Liberal MP for Bodmin, Cornwall 1922-1924 and 1929-1935. Michael's siblings were also well-known, namely Sir Dingle Foot (1905-1978), Hugh Foot (Baron Carodon, 1907-1990
FOTHERGILL family, iron-masters sheriff of Glamorgan in 1850, died 19 September 1871, and was buried at Pendoylan church, and the Hensol estate, with its castle, descended to his heiress, Isabella, daughter of his sister Ann, who married 1877, Sir Rose Lambert Price, bart. RICHARD FOTHERGILL III (1822 - 1903), iron-master, coal-owner and politician Business and Industry Politics, Government and Political Movements He was the eldest
FOULKES, ANNIE (1877 - 1962), editor of an anthology Born 24 March 1877 at Llanberis, Caernarfonshire. Her father, Edward Foulkes (1850 - 1917), was an official at Dinorwig slate quarry, a man of wide literary culture and author of a number of articles in Welsh periodicals on 19th-c. English writers : Robert Williams Parry wrote a sonnet in memory of him. She was educated at Dr. Williams' School, Dolgellau, and at College de Jeunes Filles in Saumur
FROST, JOHN (1784 - 1877), Chartist in July, and settled at Stapleton, near Bristol, where he lived until his death on 27 July 1877, in his ninety-third year.
GRIFFITH, DAVID (1841 - 1910), schoolmaster, cleric, and diarist about the persons, places, and folk-lore of this highland region. He entered as a two-year student at Lampeter, and left in June 1877 to become curate of S. Mary's at Aberdare (1877-83). From 1883 to 1896 he was curate in various places in Anglesey, from 1896 to 1910, sometimes in North Wales, sometimes in South, and died, a curate still, at Cwmavon, 12 January 1910. In every district he worked in he
GRIFFITH, JOHN (1752 - 1818), Independent minister elder was JOHN GRIFFITH, Born 11 September 1799 at Tyddyn-y-graig, Dolbenmaen; he was at Neuadd-lwyd and at Carmarthen, and ministered at Beaumaris, Manchester, Rhayader, and Buckley, where he died 16 June 1877. The younger, William Griffith (1801 - 1881), is separately noticed.
GRIFFITH, JOHN (Y Gohebydd; 1821 - 1877), newspaper correspondent, campaigner for education, and principal mover in re-establishing the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion which had, all along, been very indifferent. In 1875, too, he was presented with a testimonial amounting to £734 17s. 0d. which had been collected for him. He was an Independent and had been a staunch supporter of the movement to establish the Union of Welsh Independents. He died 13 December 1877 at his sister's house at Liverpool and was buried at Llangollen.
GRIFFITH, JOHN OWEN (Ioan Arfon; 1828 - 1881), poet and critic consulted him before publishing his articles attacking judge Homersham Cox and others who were anxious to ban the use of the Welsh language in the local courts. Ioan Arfon edited Barddoniaeth Cynddelw, published in 1877, and Lloffion y Flwyddyn, a collection of poems printed in Yr Herald Cymraeg in the year 1878. He died 22 November 1881 and was buried in Bryn-'r-odyn cemetery. The pall-bearers were
GRIFFITH, OWEN (Giraldus; 1832 - 1896), Baptist minister, editor and author with Observations on Men and things in Wales and America (Utica, 1872), with a 2nd ed. (1877); Naw Mis yn Nghymru (Utica, 1884); Y Ddwy Ordinhad Gristionogolyn eu Gwraidd a'u Dadblygiad (Utica, 1891). He died 14 May 1896 in his sixty-third year.
GRIFFITH, ROBERT DAVID (1877 - 1958), musician and historian of Welsh congregational singing Born 19 May 1877, in Cwm-y-glo, Caernarfonshire, son of Richard Griffith, a slate quarryman, and Jane (née Williams) his wife. His mother was a cousin of David Roberts ('Alawydd ' and of John Williams ('Gorfyniawc o Arfon'). After moving to Mynydd Llandygái in 1885, the family returned to Bethesda in 1890, where he, too, obtained employment in Penrhyn quarry. Later he became an office clerk, and
GRIFFITHS, JOHN (1820 - 1897), cleric and educationalist Aberystruth, Monmouth, and he received priest's orders in 1844. Subsequently he was preferred to the living of Llansannor in Glamorganshire, holding with this the living of S. Mary Hill from 1847. In 1855 he became rector of Neath, and held this office till 1896. For the last twenty years of his life he was archdeacon of Llandaff. In 1877 he received the degree of B.D. (Lambeth). John Griffith touched many

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