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FERRAR, ROBERT (bu farw 1555), Protestant martyr and bishop advantage of Somerset's fall to present a series of grave accusations against his protégé. After the accession of Mary, Ferrar was imprisoned in Southwark, and, in March 1554, was deprived of his bishopric for heresy and marriage. After some indecision, Ferrar, fortified by Bradford and other Protestant prisoners, refused to recant when examined by bishop Gardiner and other commissioners in February 1555
FFRANGCON-DAVIES, GWEN LUCY (1891 - 1992), actress with the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford. She worked extensively throughout the 50s and 60s in America and the West End. She won the Evening Standard Award for best actress as Mary Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey - an award, she noted, that preceded no work for almost a year. In 1970, aged nearly 80, Gwen made her last stage appearance in Uncle Vanya. Marda died that year
FISHER, JOHN (1862 - 1930), Welsh scholar Born on 5 January 1862, at Cilcoll, Llandebïe, being the eldest son of Edward and Mary Fisher. He was educated at the national school, Llandeilo-Talybont (Pontardulais), Llandovery school, and S. David's College, Lampeter, where he graduated B.A., in 1884, and B.D. in 1891, having been scholar and prizeman. Ordained deacon in 1885, and priest in 1886, he held curacies at Pontbleiddyn
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FITZGERALD, MICHAEL CORNELIUS JOHN (1927 - 2007), a friar of the Carmelite Order, priest, philosopher and poet Joseph (Father Gregory O. Carm.), Bridget Cecilia (Sister Bridget Mary of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary), and Mary Catherine (Mrs Pryer). The interest of the two brothers in the Carmelite Order was inspired by the influence of their uncle, Conleth FitzGerald, Provincial Superior of the Irish Carmelites and a man of high standing in the Vatican, and in 1940, when 13 years old and following
FLEURE, HERBERT JOHN (1877 - 1969), geographer was as a teacher that he was best remembered, his approach being thought-provoking rather than overlaid with facts. In 1910 he married Hilda Mary Bishop of Guernsey, formerly a student at Aberystwyth, and they had 3 children. On retirement in 1944 he moved to London and later to 66 West Drive, Cheam, Surrey, where he died 1 July 1969.
FLOWERS, BRIAN HILTON (Lord Flowers), (1924 - 2010), scientist and university administrator Nuclear Physics Division of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE) at Harwell. In 1950 he transferred to the Theoretical Physics Division and witnessed events when the head of the group, Klaus Fuchs, was arrested as a Soviet spy. It was at Harwell that Flowers met Mary Frances Buneman (born 1921, née Behrens); they married in 1951 and he became father to two step-sons, Peter and Michael
FOSTER, IVOR LLEWELYN (1870 - 1959), singer appeared over 27 consecutive seasons in the Royal Albert Hall. He also sang in musical festivals, including the Cardiff festivals on three occasions and he recorded Welsh songs on the Winner label. After retiring from public performances he set up as a music teacher. He married, 29 May 1897, Mary Ann Jones, Tonypandy (she died 1971). He died in his home at Porth-cawl 29 March 1959 and was cremated at
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
FOULKES, HENRY POWELL (1815 - 1886), cleric and author Born 2 January 1815 at Stanstead Bury, Hertfordshire, the second son of John Powell and Caroline Mary Foulkes. He was educated at King's School, Chester, Shrewsbury and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. 1837 and M.A. 1840. He was ordained deacon in June, 1839 with a title to the curacy of Halkin, Flintshire and in July of the same year he was ordained priest. He was given the
FOULKES, PETER (1676 - 1747), scholar and divine instituted rector of Cheriton Bishop, Devon, in 1714 and vicar of Thorverton, 1716. His first wife, Elizabeth Bidgood of Rockbeare, Devon, whom he married in 1707, diedin 1737. In December 1738 he married Anne Holwell, a widowed daughter of bishop Blackall of Exeter. While still an undergraduate he published, in conjunction with John Freind, an edition of Aeschines against Ctesiphon and Demosthenes on the
FOX, Sir CYRIL FRED (1882 - 1967), Director of the National Museum of Wales Archaeological Society (1933), honorary fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge (1953). He married twice: (1) Olive Congreve-Pridgeon (died 1932), they had two daughters; (2) Aileen Mary Scott-Henderson, they had three sons. After retiring, he lived in Exeter and died there 16 January 1967.

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