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EVERETT, LEWIS (1799 - 1863), Independent minister - gweler EVERETT, ROBERT
EVERETT, ROBERT (1791 - 1875), Independent ministers The two brothers were born at Gronant, Flintshire, Robert in 1791 and Lewis 20 February 1799. Their grandfather was a Scot and their grandmother an Englishwoman; their father was the manager of a lead mine, a member of Trelawnyd ('Newmarket') congregation and a lay preacher. Robert Everett began to preach in 1809; he went to the grammar school at Denbigh and in 1811 to the academy at Wrexham
FFRANGCON-DAVIES, GWEN LUCY (1891 - 1992), actress experienced amateur live theatre. In addition, they encouraged a new generation of actors: Sid James was a member of the Company for their final tour in 1946. Sir Nigel Hawthorne saw their productions during his childhood in Cape Town. Edith Evans, Lewis Casson, Sybil Thorndike, Lawrence Olivier, Ivor Novello and Noel Coward all visited Gwen there, assisting her endeavours to promote a South African
FISHER, FRANCIS GEORGE (1909 - 1970), dramatist and producer Born 26 January 1909 in Bargoed, Glamorganshire. He was educated at Lewis' School, Pengam, and at University College, Cardiff, where he graduated in mathematics. For a short period he was a teacher in a missionary college in west Africa; then in 1932 a mathematics teacher (and later deputy headmaster) at Llangefni grammar school till his death on 30 January 1970. He published a novel, One has
FITZGERALD, MICHAEL CORNELIUS JOHN (1927 - 2007), a friar of the Carmelite Order, priest, philosopher and poet encountered there as his Welsh teacher none less than Saunders Lewis, who instilled in him a deep love of the language, literature and traditions of Wales, so that he became convinced that he should, as happened, pursue his vocation in Wales. In 1942 he went to the Carmelite friary in Kinsale, in the south of Ireland, to join the order, adopting the religious name John (after his patron saint, the great
teulu FOTHERGILL, iron-masters Elizabeth, sister of James Lewis, Plas-draw, Aberdare, and after her death, married 31 December 1850, Mary Roden. He continued to sit in Parliament until 1880, when he retired to Tenby, where he died 24 June 1903. As a result of great changes in the manufacture of steel through the Bessemer process, and owing to coal strikes, the companies of which Fothergill was chief failed disastrously, as did so many
FRANCIS, JOHN OSWALD (1882 - 1956), dramatist first staged in Aberystwyth in 1914, was a great achievement, showing his ability to create characters of the Welsh countryside. His comedy Birds of a feather had a remarkably successful run at the London Coliseum, 1914-18, and was performed in many parts of the world up to his death. Howell of Gwent (1934) was a massive historical piece which was performed in Wales and London by the Welsh National
teulu GAMAGE Coety, Coity, John Gamage entered on queen Elizabeth's pardon roll of 1559, and again pardoned in 1562. Rice Lewis, in the Breviat of Glamorgan, mentions Newcastle (Bridgend) as 'a pretie pile newly begun to be re-edified by John Gamadge, esq., that last was. He died in 1584 and was succeeded by his daughter, BARBARA, an heiress of great attraction. Lord Burghley was annoyed because Sir Edward Stradling had taken
teulu GAMBOLD There was a family of this name in Cardigan town in the 17th and 18th century. When Lewis Morris of Anglesey was imprisoned at Cardigan in 1753, and released on bail (Morris Letters, f.n. on i, 223), he stayed at the house of a William Gamold - conceivably, but not very probably, the William Gambold with whom the present notice closes. Further, a Gambold or ' Gambwll' is repeatedly mentioned in
GEE, THOMAS (1815 - 1898), Calvinistic Methodist minister, journalist, and politician the Traethodydd, a quarterly edited by Lewis Edwards of Bala. In 1854 he started another great venture - the publication of Y Gwyddoniadur, an encyclopaedia completed in ten volumes by 1878 at a cost of about £20,000. A second edition of this work was published in 1896. On 4 March 1857 the first number of Baner Cymru, a weekly paper, appeared and in October 1859 this was amalgamated with Yr Amserau
GILBERTSON, LEWIS (1814 - 1896), cleric, vice-principal of Jesus College, Oxford
GIVVONS, ALEXANDER (1913 - 2002), rugby player preferred to play for his local club, Pill Harriers RFC, until he joined the Cross Keys team aged 19 playing at scrum-half. Givvons impressed immediately due to his speed and agility, and during a match against Pontypool, Welsh International Clem Lewis noted that 'he is the biggest discovery that I have seen since the war' (Daily News, 1932). The committee at Oldham Rugby League Club were informed of

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