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FITZOSBERN, WILLIAM (bu farw 1071), earl of Hereford, lord of Breteuil in Normandy , e.g., he granted his French tenants at Hereford the very liberal 'laws' which he had given to Breteuil. These 'laws' became the prototype of the charters granted by many Norman lords to their boroughs, and they had an immense influence in Wales since Hereford was regarded as a model borough. He was killed in battle at Cassel, 20 February 1071, and buried at Cormeilles in Normandy.
FOLLAND, HENRY (1878 - 1926), industrialist the South Wales district of the Federation of British Industry. He and his wife were prominent members of Mount Pleasant Baptist Chapel in Swansea. Lily Folland also did much public and philanthropic work, serving as JP and standing as Liberal candidate for the Gower constituency in 1923. She was awarded the CBE for political and public services in south Wales in 1939. Henry Folland died from heart
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
FOULKES, ISAAC (Llyfrbryf; 1836 - 1904), newspaper proprietor and publisher dated 22 May 1890. Politically a Liberal and a fervent advocate of peace, Foulkes's main purpose was the preservation of the Welsh language and its literature. He did more than any other publisher to popularize Welsh books. During that period, i.e. towards the end of the 19th century, when the literary output of Welsh authors was at a low ebb, Foulkes, through his newspaper and by his publication of
FOULKES, THOMAS (1731 - 1802), early Methodist exhorter Lloyd; she was the sister of Simon Lloyd (1756 - 1836), and see the article John Foulkes Jones). Unwilling to compete in business with his step-daughter Mrs. Charles, Foulkes now set up at Machynlleth, and flourished there, continuing to exhort as a Calvinistic Methodist itinerant and to dispose liberal charity. He died at Machynlleth 15 May 1802; Thomas Charles and John Evans preached at his funeral
FRANCIS, DAVID (1911 - 1981), trade unionist and miners' leader Catherine, the daughter of William Powell, a local colliery checkweighman, and they set up home at Onllwyn. The union was extraordinarily happy and proved immensely supportive to him throughout the harsh vicissitudes of public life. They had two children, a daughter Nancy (born 1939), and a son Hywel (born 1946) who became a distinguished historian and served as Labour MP for Aberavon from 2001. Francis
GIBBINS, FREDERICK WILLIAM (1861 - 1937), Quaker industrialist ' Association, he was its chairman from 1910 to 1922. He served on several committees, commercial and philanthropic, was a J.P., an ardent upholder of hospital work, a vice-president of the Welsh National Memorial Association, and served as high sheriff of Glamorgan for 1908-9. He was elected M.P. for Mid-Glamorgan in 1910 (Liberal). He sold the Eagle Tinplate works to Baldwins Ltd., in 1922 and went to live
GIBSON-WATT, JAMES DAVID (BARON GIBSON-WATT), (1918 - 2002), Member of Parliament and public figure Radnorshire County Council and was selected the Conservative candidate for the Brecon and Radnorshire constituency. In a straight fight with Tudor Watkins, the Labour candidate, Gibson-Watt had a good chance of gaining the seat at the 1950 general election, but the appearance of an Independent Liberal candidate gave Watkins a narrow majority. The contest at the 1951 general election was a straight fight
teulu GLYNNE Sir STEPHEN RICHARD GLYNNE (1807 - 1874), 9th baronet. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford (B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831), at both of which places he knew W. E. Gladstone, who married Catherine, Sir Stephen's sister, on 25 July 1839. He represented Flint as a Liberal, 1832-7, and Flintshire for the next ten years, and was lord lieutenant of Flintshire for many years. He travelled extensively
GOWER, HERBERT RAYMOND (1916 - 1989), Conservative politician politics, and in 1946 Gower was elected honorary secretary of the Cardiff East Conservative and Unionist Association. He stood unsuccessfully as the Conservative candidate in the Ogmore division in the 1950 general election, winning the highest Conservative poll in all the Welsh coalmining constituencies, and he was then elected to parliament as the Conservative MP for Barry in the general election of
GRENFELL, DAVID RHYS (1881 - 1968), Labour politician of William Morgan. He also became active in the local Labour Party in 1916; and in 1920 he was adopted prospective candidate for the Gower division. He entered parliament as the Labour MP for the Gower constituency at an all-important by-election held on 20 July 1922 held on the death of John Williams MP, subsequently retaining the division until his retirement from the House of Commons in 1959
GRIFFITH, DAVID (1792 or 1794 - 1873), Independent minister ; he was born at Bryn, January 1835. He was educated at Portdinorwic school, the Liverpool Institute, and at the Rev. Evan Harris's school at Mold. He was a farmer at Bryn until 1866 when he was ordained minister; he had sole charge of the churches from 1873 until his death in 1894. He achieved considerable prominence in political affairs and was the local Liberal leader; 'as long as he lived he

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