Dictionary of Welsh Biography

FOULKES, ISAAC (Llyfrbryf; 1836 - 1904), newspaper proprietor and publisher Born 9 November 1836 at Llanfwrog, Denbighshire, son of Peter and Frances Foulkes. He was apprenticed as a compositor to Isaac Clarke, Ruthin, but went to Liverpool on Christmas eve 1854, before completing his apprenticeship. He spent some years as a compositor in the Amserau printing office and then went to the printing works of David Marples. He set up a press of his own in 1862 at 28 King
GITTINS, CHARLES EDWARD (1908 - 1970), educationalist Born in Rhostyllen, near Wrexham, Denbighshire, 24 January 1908, son of Charles Thomas and Frances (née Rabbit) Gittins. He was educated at Rhostyllen Infants School, 1911-15, Bersham Boys' School, 1915-20, Grove Park County School for Boys, Wrexham, 1920-25 and at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1925-31. He entered energetically into student life at Aberystwyth, and became
GLYN family Glynllifon, Hugh Owen of Orielton. There were two daughters of the marriage, FRANCES GLYNNE, and ELLEN GLYNNE died 1711. The former married c. 1700 THOMAS WYNN of Boduan [ 1678 - 1749 ] [see Wynn of Rug family ], and the surname Glynne was thus lost. Thomas Wynn became a baronet [ 1742 ], and his grandson Sir Thomas Wynn [ 1736 - 1807 ] became the first lord Newborough in 1776. Thomas Glyn was a Commissioner of
GRENFELL family, Swansea industrialists 1847, Penelope Frances Madan, daughter of the Dean of Chichester. He was an active humanitarian who built model (by the standards of the times) houses for his workers, founded All Saints Church, Kilvey, and supervised the school taught by Richard Gwynne (see GWYNNE (family) above). He was chairman of the Harbour Trust and active in the development of Swansea docks. By his first wife he had four sons
GRIFFITH(S), DAVID (1726 - 1816), cleric and schoolmaster of Glascwm. Sometime before 1757 he married Frances (born 1731), daughter of Hugh Morgan of Betws Diserth (H.S. Rads., 1724). She was buried at S. John the Evangelist, Brecon, 12 March 1792 (Griffith had been assistant curate there for some years before 1758). In that year, 10 March, he became vicar of Merthyr Cynog, and 14 August master of Brecon grammar-school. He held the vicariate till his
GRIFFITH, ELIZABETH (1727 - 1793), author Born in Glamorgan on 11 October 1727. Little is known of her before her marriage to Richard Griffith, an Irishman, c. 1752. Thereafter she acted on the Dublin and London stage and in 1757 published A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances, which was at once a novel and a selection in two volumes of correspondence between Richard Griffith and herself before marriage. She wrote many
GRIFFITH, JOHN (1713 - 1776), Quaker Born 21 May 1713 in Radnorshire. Emigrating to America in 1726 he joined the Society of Friends and became an energetic worker in the cause. He returned to England in January 1748 and attended 560 meetings, travelling 12,000 miles in the course of little over two years. He went back to America in May 1750 but returned in October 1750, married Frances Wyatt, of Chelmsford, Essex, at which place he
HALL, AUGUSTA (Lady Llanover), (Gwenynen Gwent; 1802 - 1896), patron of Welsh culture and inventor of the Welsh national costume Lady Llanover was born on 21 March 1802, the youngest of six daughters of Benjamin Waddington (1749-1828) of Ty Uchaf, Llanover in Monmouthshire, and his wife Georgina (née Port, 1771-1850; a great-niece of Mary Delaney, 1700-1788). Like her surviving sisters Frances and Emelia, Augusta Waddington enjoyed a wide education which included the classics, modern languages, history, geography, art and
HERBERT, WILLIAM REGINALD (1841 - 1929), sportsman, huntsman and rider of racehorses Born 14 February 1841, eldest son of William Herbert, D.L., Clytha, and Frances, daughter of Edward Huddleston, Sawston Hall, Cambs. He received private tuition in France before enlisting with the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars. He took the additional name of Huddleston when he inherited Sawston Hall estate, 1920-21. Having taken an early interest in racehorses he was highly regarded as one of the
HOGGAN, FRANCES ELIZABETH (1843 - 1927), physician and social reformer Frances Hoggan was the first Welsh woman to qualify as a medical doctor and a leading figure in the campaign to improve girls' education in Wales in the early 1880s. Born as Frances Morgan in Brecon on 20 December 1843, she was the eldest of five children of Georgiana Catherina (née Philipps) and Richard Morgan, curate of St. John's Priory, Brecon. She grew up Aberafan and, following her father's
HOGGAN, FRANCES ELIZABETH (1843 - 1927) , decided to enter the medical profession, but found the London medical schools closed to her sex, and had to go to Zürich, where she took her M.D. in 1870 - the first British woman to receive a Continental degree in medicine, and the second woman graduate of Zürich. She began to practise (as a specialist in diseases of women and children) in London. She married (1874) George Hoggan, a medical man, and
HUGHES GRIFFITHS, ANNIE JANE (1873 - 1942), peace campaigner Annie Jane Davies was born on 5 April 1873, at Cwrt Mawr, Llangeitho, Ceredigion, the sixth of ten children of Robert Joseph Davies (1839-1892) and his wife Frances (née Humphreys, 1836-1918). She had three sisters, Sara Maria (1864-1939), Mary (1869-1918) ac Eliza ('Lily', 1876-1939), and six brothers, Robert Brian ('Bertie', 1865-1879), David Charles (1866-1928), Edward (1867-1869), John

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