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EVANS, WILLIAM EMRYS (1924 - 2004), banker and philanthropist Emrys Evans was born on 4 April 1924, the son of Richard and Mary Elizabeth Evans, Maesglas, Y Foel, Montgomeryshire. On leaving Llanfair Caereinion County School in 1941, he went to work with the Midland Bank (now known as HSBC). A year later, he enlisted in the Royal Navy where he served as a radio operator; he was among a small group of men landed in Normandy, one day before D-Day, to report
FARRINGTON, RICHARD (1702 - 1772), cleric and antiquary the antiquities of Caernarvonshire, and was the host of Thomas Pennant when the latter toured the Caernarvon district. Farrington wrote three volumes of antiquarian interest - ' Numismata Dinlleana,' ' The Druid Monuments of Snowdonia,' and ' Celtic Antiquities of Snowdon '; the three manuscripts are now in the National Library of Wales. Through his connection with the Richardsons of Chester he
FENTON, RICHARD (1747 - 1821), poet and topographical writer poems (1773 and 1790); and he left many works in manuscript. [These manuscripts were bought in 1858 by Sir Thomas Phillipps, and are now in the Cardiff City Library; a selection was edited by John Fisher and published in 1917 as Tours in Wales, 1804-1813, by Richard Fenton. When in London, Fenton was a member of the Cymmrodorion and in 1778 was one of its two librarians; there is a kindly reference to
FFRANGCON-DAVIES, GWEN LUCY (1891 - 1992), actress appear as Isabella of France in Christopher Marlowe's Edward II. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet gave Gwen the lead part she most longed to play. She had first learned these lines as a teenager on holiday in Conwy, leaning out of her bedroom window, the moon rising over magical blue hills, the scent of stocks filling the night air. Despite now being 33, her portrayal was hailed as the first properly
FITZGERALD, MICHAEL CORNELIUS JOHN (1927 - 2007), a friar of the Carmelite Order, priest, philosopher and poet the example of his elder brother Gregory, FitzGerald was sent to St Mary's College, Aberystwyth (now home to the Welsh Books Council under its old name of Castell Brychan), a seminary charged also with care of the parish. The College was re-established in 1936, in the same building as an earlier Catholic college of the same name (which had been relocated there from Holywell, remaining empty for a
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
FOX, Sir CYRIL FRED (1882 - 1967), Director of the National Museum of Wales Stanstead, Essex. When the commission finished its work, about 1912, some of its members set up a research station at Cambridge and Fox was appointed to take care of its administration until the Ministry of Agriculture took control of it. He was now without work and some of his friends at Cambridge arranged for him to register for a degree course at Magdalene College, Cambridge, but at the end of his
FRANCIS, DAVID (1911 - 1981), trade unionist and miners' leader anthracite coalfield were visibly breaking down as local miners, avid in their defence of their traditional customs and working practices, now displayed much broader horizons and perspectives. He was consequently fully embroiled in the intense hardship and social deprivation which accompanied the anthracite coal strike of 1925, the nine-day General Strike of May 1926 and the subsequent long stoppage which
FRANCIS, GEORGE GRANT (1814 - 1882), business man and antiquary publications arose out of his local interests, and, being issued in small limited editions, are now extremely scarce. Among them may be mentioned: Original Charters and Materials for a History of Neath and its Abbey, 1845; The Free Grammar School, Swansea, 1849; Charters granted to Swansea, 1867; The Smelting of Copper in the Swansea District, 1867, with a second and enlarged edition in 1881.
GALLIE, MENNA PATRICIA (1919 - 1990), writer . Williams, miner, poet, and J. P., is a particularly memorably portrait. The novel was written in Northern Ireland where, after four years (1950-1954) at the University College of North Staffordshire (now Keele University), Bryce had taken up a chair at Queen's University, Belfast. Encouraged by the success of Strike for a Kingdom - it had been a runner-up for the Golden Dagger Award, and had won highly
GIBBON, BENJAMIN PHELPS (1802 - 1851), line-engraver Son of Benjamin Gibbon, vicar of Penally, Pembrokeshire, and Jane his wife, was born in 1802. He was educated at the Clergy Orphan school and learned engraving under Edward Scriven and J. H. Robinson. He engraved several works after Edwin Landseer and among his engraved portraits is one of queen Victoria after William Fowler. A delicacy of touch distinguished his works, but they are not now much
GIFFORD, ISABELLA (c. 1825 - 1891), botanist and algologist the family. It was probably in 1848 that Isabella and her parents moved for the last time and made their permanent home at The Parks, Minehead, Somerset (she mentioned her first visit to Minehead beach in that year). This was also the year of the appearance of a second edition of her book, now bearing the title The Marine Botanist: An introduction to algology. The following year, a distinguished

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