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FELD, VALERIE ANNE (1947 - 2001), politician University of Wales, Cardiff, where she later gained an MA in Women's Studies. She married John Feld in 1969, with whom she had two daughters. They divorced in 1979. Her later partner was Mike Read. She worked as a researcher and secretary for BBC, ITN, Tellex Monitors, 1969-72, and became involved in various voluntary and community activities between 1972 and 1977. She was a housing and welfare rights
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 'child-like' Juliet. Her Romeo, John Gielgud, was a gay 19 year-old, nervous about performing this iconic role of heterosexual love. Gwen no doubt felt empathy for John's predicament. She had experienced relationships with men; yet, soon she was to embark on a long lesbian partnership with the South African actress, Marda Vanne (1896-1970). For both John and Gwen, playing conventionally straight roles
FIELD, THEOPHILUS (1574 - 1636), bishop Born 1574. He was bishop of Llandaff 1619-27, S. Davids, 1627-35, and Hereford, 1635-6. His somewhat notorious career is recounted in the D.N.B. His name is included in the present volume merely because it was he who lent ' The Book of Llandav ' to John Selden (Field was the last bishop to write his name in that book); thus it was that Llandaff never recovered the manuscript, which passed from
FISHER, JOHN (1862 - 1930), Welsh scholar vice-president. His principal literary work, of which he was joint-author with S. Baring Gould, was The Lives of the British Saints (4 vols.) published by the Hon. Society of Cymmrodorion, 1907-13. He had previously edited the Cefn Coch MSS., 1899. Later he edited Fenton's Tours in Wales for the Cambrian Archaeological Association, 1917, Allwydd Paradwys (by John Hughes, 1615 - 1686), 1930, and
teulu FITZ ALAN, lords of Oswestry and Clun, and later earls of Arundel John attacked and burned Oswestry in 1216, as JOHN FITZ ALAN I (died 1241), one of his opponents, was friendly with Llywelyn the Great till 1217. John was one of the Crown representatives in a dispute between Henry III and Llywelyn the Great in 1226, while in the same year he mediated in a dispute between William Pantulf, lord of Wem, Salop, and Madog ap Gruffydd. During the conflict between Henry
teulu FITZ WARIN, lords Whittington, Alderbury, Alveston king's service. He was in conflict with Llywelyn ap Gruffydd in 1277 about lands in Bauseley, Montgomeryshire, and before 25 February in this year he married Margaret, daughter of Gruffydd ap Wenwynwyn by Hawise, daughter of John Lestrange (see the article on that family); Fulk died 1315; his widow died on 11 May 1336. [The direct male line came to an end in 1420, when the last of eleven successive
FITZGERALD, MICHAEL CORNELIUS JOHN (1927 - 2007), a friar of the Carmelite Order, priest, philosopher and poet John FitzGerald was born on 3 February 1927 at Ludlow in Shropshire, a son of Michael FitzGerald (1889-1949) and Martha Helena O'Sullivan (1896-1978) who moved to live in England in 1922 following the disbanding of the Royal Irish Constabulary of which the father was a member. Christened Michael Cornelius, he was the third of four children, the names of the others being (in order of age) Gerald
FLEURE, HERBERT JOHN (1877 - 1969), geographer Born in Guernsey, 6 June 1877, the son of John Fleure (1803 - 1890) an accountant and Marie (née Le Rougetel) his wife. He was blind in one eye and his attendance at the States Intermediate School, Guernsey, 1885-91, was irregular because of poor health. Despite illness he continued his studies at home, learning from books and his natural environment; he passed the London matriculation
FLOWERS, BRIAN HILTON (Lord Flowers), (1924 - 2010), scientist and university administrator enthusiastic teacher named Mr Foukes. He went on to study at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, reading Physics and Electronics. He gained his degree in two years with such brilliance that before he was 20 the physicist John Cockcroft had recruited him for the Anglo-Canadian Atomic Energy Project in Canada, where he spent two years from September 1944. He returned to Britain in 1946 to work at the
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FLYNN, PATRICIA MAUD (Patti) (1937 - 2020), musician, author, activist music of the Great American Songbook composers. In 2006 she sang with Dame Cleo Laine and Sir John Dankworth at a Jazz Heritage Wales event. She joined with her musician friends, sisters Humie and Jackie Webbe, to create The Bay Divas trio. The aim at the outset was to celebrate the musical heritage of Tiger Bay, from the 20s and 30s through to the 50s. They performed in St David's Hall and the Donald

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