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EVANS, MEREDYDD (1919 - 2015), campaigner, musician, philosopher and television producer day bluntly for ignoring the overwhelming influx of English speakers to rural Wales. In 1993 he broke into Carmarthen Crown Court with several other prominent Welshmen and women and destroyed the judge's chair in the campaign for a New Welsh Language Act. From 1996 he was the fully committed President of Cylch yr Iaith, a campaign group that worked tirelessly to protect the Welshness of S4C and
EVANS, Syr SAMUEL THOMAS (1859 - 1918), gwleidyddwr a barnwr aelod o gylchdaith De Cymru yn fawr. Gwnaethpwyd ef yn Q.C. yn 1901 - y Q.C. diwethaf yn nheyrnasiad y frenhines Victoria. Yn 1908 dewiswyd ef yn gofiadur Abertawe, a'r un flwyddyn yn 'Solicitor-General.' Yn 1910 daeth yn llywydd y 'Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the High Court. Yr oedd yn aelod o'r Cyfrin Gyngor ac yn G.C.B. Pan oedd yn llywydd y ' Prize Court ' yn ystod y rhyfel mawr
EVANS, Sir SAMUEL THOMAS (1859 - 1918), politician and judge 1901, being the last Q.C. to be created by queen Victoria. In 1908 he was made recorder of Swansea; in the same year he was appointed Solicitor-General. In 1910 he became president of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the High Court. He was a G.C.B. and a member of the Privy Council. It was while presiding over the Prize Court during the first world war that Evans established his
FISHER, JOHN (1862 - 1930), Welsh scholar and its Saints,' 1926. He was elected F.S.A. in 1918, and received the honorary degree of D.Litt. from the University of Wales in 1920. He was also appointed a member of the commission on Ancient Monuments (Wales). He served as representative of the Cambrian Archaeological Association on the court of governors of the University of Wales and on its Board of Celtic Studies, and was a member of the
teulu FITZ WARIN, lords Whittington, Alderbury, Alveston quite detailed, and his statement that Llywelyn the Great and Fulk (this would be Fulk III) and prince John were lads together at the English court is by no means incredible - the scuffle between Fulk and young John over a game of chess, e.g., is quite in John's character. No Welsh version of the romance has as yet come to light, but Welsh familiarity, if not with the romance itself then at least with
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
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
teulu FOTHERGILL, iron-masters son of RICHARD FOTHERGILL II, (1789-1851), eldest son of Richard Fothergill I, and succeeded his uncle as manager, and later proprietor, of the Aberdare iron-works, etc. He had acquired extensive knowledge of all the processes involved in the manufacture of iron and in the production of coal. His ownership of a 'truck shop' led to some opposition and a prosecution at the Aberdare police court in
GEORGE, WILLIAM (1865 - 1967), solicitor and public figure achievement for one who had not received a college or high school education. He joined his brother in practice in the business that he established in Cricieth in 1885 and the partnership of Lloyd George & George became well known when they won the 'Llanfrothen Cemetery' case in the Appeal Court on 15 December 1888. When David Lloyd George was elected to Parliament in 1890 members were not paid a salary and
GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS (1146? - 1223), archdeacon of Brecon and mediaeval Latin writer king's service, and he acted as mediator between the court and the lord Rhys ap Gruffydd. In 1185, because of his relationship to the conquerors of Ireland - his mother's brothers and half-brothers and his own brothers - he was appointed to accompany prince John to Ireland, and he turned this task to good account by collecting materials for his Expugnatio Hibernica and Topographia Hibernica. In 1188 he
GLYNNE, MARY DILYS (1895 - 1991), plant pathologist sculptor and musician William Davies (Mynorydd) and sister to the singer Mary Davies. Mary attended Bangor County School for Girls, which her mother had played a prominent role in establishing in 1897 and served for a long period as one of its governors. Her father was a councillor on Bangor City Council and registrar of the County Court. Her sister Eryl became a doctor and botanist, and her brother Ioan
GOODMAN, GABRIEL (1528 - 1601), dean of Westminster and founder of Christ's Hospital, Ruthin Elizabethan church settlement, disliking equally Catholics and Puritans. He was rector of South Luffenham, Rutland, 1558; rector of Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, 1559-82; prebendary of S. Pauls, 1559; prebendary of Westminster, 1560; dean of Westminster, 1561-1601. He served frequently as member of the court of high commission. In 1575 he assisted in the condemnation of Peters and Turnwort, Dutch anabaptists

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