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FITZSTEPHEN, ROBERT (bu farw c. 1183), one of the conquerors of Ireland and played a significant role in the conquest of Ireland where he was granted lands in Wexford and its neighbourhood. In 1177 he received a joint grant of the kingdom of Cork, where he ruled until his death, c. 1183. The abbey of Strata Florida was founded in 1164 on land given to the monks by Robert. He also gave Llanfyrnach on the Taf to the knights of Slebech.
FOULKES, ANNIE (1877 - 1962), editor of an anthology Born 24 March 1877 at Llanberis, Caernarfonshire. Her father, Edward Foulkes (1850 - 1917), was an official at Dinorwig slate quarry, a man of wide literary culture and author of a number of articles in Welsh periodicals on 19th-c. English writers : Robert Williams Parry wrote a sonnet in memory of him. She was educated at Dr. Williams' School, Dolgellau, and at College de Jeunes Filles in Saumur
FOULKES, ISAAC (Llyfrbryf; 1836 - 1904), newspaper proprietor and publisher Street (renamed Kinglake Street in 1868). He made several moves before finally settling down at the Don Chambers, Paradise Street, c. 1896. In Gore's Liverpool Directory he is described in 1862 as a bookseller, in 1863 as a printer, and in 1870 as a publisher. The first book published by him was probably the small hymn book, Llyfr Emynau, for the Welsh Congregationalists. The most notable of his early
FOX, Sir CYRIL FRED (1882 - 1967), Director of the National Museum of Wales Born 1882 son of C. Fred Fox, F.S.A., Bursledon, Hampshire, and his wife. He was educated at Christ's Hospital, Horsham. After leaving school at 16 he was trained as a vegetable gardener, eventually moving to Worthing, Sussex, where he met Louis Cobett, a pathologist on the staff of the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis, who persuaded him to become a clerk on the staff of the Commission at
FRANCIS, ABEL (bu farw c. 1743), Arminian Baptist minister
FRANCIS, ENOCH (1688/9 - 1740), Baptist minister Glandŵr (Llandysul), or at Dre-fach, or (perhaps more probably) at Rhos-goch (Llanarth). About 1707 he began preaching, at Llanllwni; when he was ordained assistant to James Jones (died 1734), pastor of ' Tivy-side,' is not known, but it was obviously before 1721, the year in which he was selected to preach at the Baptist Association meeting (at Hengoed) in 1722. He had married (c. 1718) Mary Evans, of
FRANCIS, JOHN OSWALD (1882 - 1956), dramatist Service and was an official of the National Savings Movement when he retired c. 1953, having received an M.B.E. for his work. But it is for his notable contribution to the revival of interest in drama in Wales that he is remembered. R.G. Berry and David Thomas Davies were contemporary playwrights. About 1910 he started writing plays for the Aberystwyth Old Students' Association. The Poacher, which was
teulu GAMAGE Coety, Coity, The family took its surname from Gamaches in the Norman Vexin, but it cannot be proved that the first immigrant Gamage came over with the Conqueror. A Godfrey de Gamaches (died c. 1176), who aided Henry II in 1154 held two knight's fees under the De Lacys in Herefordshire, and was rewarded by Henry in 1159 with the manor of Stottesden, Salop. His elder son, Matthew, adhered in 1204 to the French
teulu GAMBOLD , 221, 224), we hear of the bishop trying to sell the manuscript to the lexicographer Thomas Richards of Coychurch (1710 - 1790) - the Morrises (i, 114, ii, 150, 233), more suo, disparage the work. Later (c. 1770), the manuscript came into the hands of another lexicographer, John Walters; today it is at the National Library of Wales. William Gambold published in 1727 A Grammar of the Welsh Language
GIFFORD, ISABELLA (c. 1825 - 1891), botanist and algologist Natural History Society, held on 21-23 August 1855; the Society's proceedings recorded that a paper by Isabella had been presented, and published it under the title 'Notices of the Rare and most Remarkable Plants in the neighbourhoods of Dunster, Blue Anchor, Minehead, &c'. Isabella stated in the paper that she had noticed over five hundred and fifty flowering plants and ferns in the area; she regretted
GILDAS (fl. 6th cent), monk . Assuming that Gildas wrote his attack on Maelgwn in the year the latter died, that gives 504 as the last year possible for the battle of Badon and the birth of Gildas - and they may be a little earlier. The Annales gives 570 as the date of his death (see Lloyd, A History of Wales, 142 n, for corroborative details from Irish chronicles) and that permits us to suggest c. 500 as the time of his birth. It is
teulu GLYN Glynllifon, . HWLKIN LLOYD, Tudur's son, held the town of Caernarvon for the king under William de Tranmere in 1403, and died the following year. MEREDYDD LLOYD, his son, was bailiff of Uwch Gwyrfai in 1413-15, and accompanied some forces sent to protect Guernsey in 1456. The next heir, ROBERT AP MEREDYDD [died c. 1509 ] was twice married, each wife being a member of English families who administered Gwynedd for the

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