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DINORBEN, 2nd Baron - gweler HUGHES, HUGH ROBERT
DYNEVOR, 7th Baron - gweler RHYS, WALTER FITZURYAN
DYNEVOR, 8th Baron - gweler RHYS, WALTER FITZURYAN
EDMUND-DAVIES, HERBERT EDMUND (1906 - 1992), lawyer and judge , but they reflected Edmund-Davies's consistent view that serious crime must be met with severe punishment. In 1974 he was created Baron Edmund-Davies of Aberpennar when he became a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. At the time, not many law lords had earlier distinguished experience in criminal law, and Edmund-Davies' experience raised the quality of the House's decisions in criminal cases. He has been
teulu EDWARDS Chirkland, , who had married a younger son of Plas Newydd early in the 17th century. Francis Edwardes's marriage with the daughter and heiress of Robert Rich, 5th earl of Warwick, brought to his son WILLIAM EDWARDES in 1776 the Kensington estates of the Riches and the title 'baron Kensington' in the Irish peerage. The family kept its Pembrokeshire seat, frequently providing the county with lords-lieutenant and
EVANS, DAVID THOMAS GRUFFYDD (Baron Evans of Claughton), (1928 - 1992), solicitor and politician of the Liberal Assembly in Llandudno on 16 September 1981, which gave the proposed alliance an overwhelming majority. Evans's political apprenticeship was served local councils on Merseyside and he was an early advocate of the importance of community politics - 'Liberalism on the doorsteps' - which became much more important in the 1980s and 1990s. Early in 1978, Evans was made a life peer as Baron
EVANS, HORACE (1st. BARON EVANS of MERTHYR TYDFIL), (1903 - 1963), physician , all of whom received him as a friend. He was knighted in 1949, and created a baron in 1957. In 1955 he delivered the Croonian lectures and was made hon. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1961. The University of Wales conferred on him an hon. D.Sc. degree and he was made a freeman of his native town in April 1962. He was not keen on open-air activities apart from horse-racing, on which he
EVANS, LEWIS PUGH (1881 - 1962), soldier and public figure, Brigadier General, VC, CB, CMG, DSO Merionethshire that could trace its roots back to the Second Royal Tribe of Wales. Among his ancestors were the Vaughan family of Corsygedol and the Owen family of Dolgellau (who include Baron Lewis Owen, M.P., Sheriff and Baron of the Exchequer for North Wales – his wife claimed she was a descendent of Owain Glyndwr's sister), Gruffydd Dda who fought at the battle of Agincourt, and Sir Gruffydd ab Adda of
FENTON, RICHARD (1747 - 1821), poet and topographical writer impoverished as a result of the failure of the fish harvest in 1799. He married Eloise, daughter of Colonel (Baron) Pillet de Moudon, of Swiss birth but settled in England. He died at Plas Glyn-y-mêl, Fishguard, early in November 1821, and was buried at Manor Owen, near Fishguard.
FOOT, MICHAEL MACKINTOSH (1913 - 2010), politician, journalist, author Michael Foot was born on 23 July 1913 at 1 Lipson Terrace, Plymouth, Devon, the fifth of seven children of Isaac Foot (1880-1960) and his wife Eva (née Mackintosh, 1877-1946). Isaac Foot was a solicitor in Plymouth and was the Liberal MP for Bodmin, Cornwall 1922-1924 and 1929-1935. Michael's siblings were also well-known, namely Sir Dingle Foot (1905-1978), Hugh Foot (Baron Carodon, 1907-1990
FROST, JOHN (1784 - 1877), Chartist clerk of Newport (grandfather of Rowland Prothero, first baron Ernie), whom he attacked in a series of pamphlets in 1821 and 1822; as a result he was convicted of libel, having to pay £1,000 in damages and being sentenced, in February 1823, to six months' imprisonment. After his release he prospered as a tradesman and took an active part in local politics, opposing both the Tory interests of the
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