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FLOYD, EDWARD - gweler LLOYD, EDWARD
FLUDD, EDWARD - gweler LLOYD, EDWARD
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, HENRY POWELL (1815 - 1886), cleric and author living of Llandyssil, Montgomeryshire, in 1857 and he was made Archdeacon of Montgomery in 1861, an office that carried with it a canonry in the cathedral. He was presented to the living of Whittington, Shropshire in 1879 and he stayed there until his death. He married Jane Margaret, the daughter of Edward Lloyd, Rhagad and they had one daughter who died when she was 14. He was the author of several
FOULKES, HUMPHREY (1673 - 1737), cleric and antiquary Llanfor, Meironnydd, 1713. He wrote dissertations on several aspects of life in the middle ages in Wales and corresponded frequently with Edward Lhuyd on a variety of antiquarian and philological topics. He died in 1737.
FRIMSTON, THOMAS (Tudur Clwyd; 1854 - 1930), Baptist minister, historian and antiquary ), and finally Old Colwyn (1904-30). He married 13 June 1882, Sarah Eleanor Roberts (died 1 May 1927), daughter of Edward Roberts, Llangollen; five children were born of the marriage. He died 12 May 1930. Frimston is best remembered for his researches into Welsh Baptist history, e.g. Ebenezer: Hanes Eglwys Fedyddiedig, Llangefni, 1897; Canrif o Ymdrechion Bedyddwyr Môn, 1902; and several contributions
GABE, RHYS THOMAS (1880 - 1967), rugby player ) against the All Blacks in 1905, and with Erith Gwyn Nicholls, William ('Willie') Morris Llewellyn and Edward ('E.T.') Morgan he formed the most brilliant three-quarter line that ever played for Wales. He died 15 September 1967 at Cardiff.
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 friend of Edward Lhuyd, who acknowledges help given to him by Gambold in preparing Lhuyd's additions in Gibson's edition of Camden's Britannia. As early as 1707, Gambold was planning a Welsh dictionary, and this became his main occupation later on, when an accident disabled him from parochial work. It was finished in 1722, but Gambold failed to get money to publish it. In the Morris Letters (ii, 140-1
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
GIBSON-WATT, JAMES DAVID (BARON GIBSON-WATT), (1918 - 2002), Member of Parliament and public figure Harold Macmillan, when Anthony Barber, the usual holder of this post, was in hospital. From 1962 to 1964, Gibson-Watt was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Reginald Maudling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. When the Conservatives went into opposition in 1964, Gibson-Watt became a front-bench spokesman on the department of the Postmaster General and on Wales. In the latter role, he accompanied Edward
GIFFORD, ISABELLA (c. 1825 - 1891), botanist and algologist a list of individuals, both male and female, who had contributed specimens to his work in the second and third volumes of the Phycologia Britannica, showing the importance of networking for Isabella and her colleagues in the field. Another contact who acknowledged her help was the algologist and botanist Edward Morell Holmes (1843-1930), who remembered sending her algae to be named in exchange for

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