Dictionary of Welsh Biography



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FAGAN, THOMAS WALLACE ( 1874 - 1951 ), agricultural chemist

FARR, HARRY ( 1874 - 1968 ), librarian

FARRINGTON, RICHARD ( 1702 - 1772 ), cleric and antiquary

FENTON, RICHARD ( 1747 - 1821 ), poet and topographical writer

FERRAR, ROBERT (d. 1555 ), Protestant martyr and bishop

FIELD, THEOPHILUS ( 1574 - 1636 ), bishop

FINIAN , saint ( fl. 6th cent. ).

FISHER, FRANCIS GEORGE ( 1909 - 1970 ), dramatist and producer

FISHER, JOHN ( 1862 - 1930 ), Welsh scholar ,

FITZ ALAN , lords of Oswestry and Clun, and later earls of Arundel .

FITZGERALD, DAVID (d. 1176 ), bishop of S. Davids , 1148-76

FITZGERALD, MAURICE (d. 1176 ), one of the conquerors of Ireland

FITZOSBERN, WILLIAM (d. 1071 ), earl of Hereford, lord of Breteuil in Normandy ,

FITZSTEPHEN, ROBERT (d. c. 1183 ), one of the conquerors of Ireland ,

FITZ WARIN , lords of Whittington and Alderbury ( Salop ) and Alveston (Gloucs.) .

FLEETWOOD, WILLIAM ( 1656 - 1723 ), bishop and antiquary

FLEURE, HERBERT JOHN ( 1877 - 1969 ), geographer

FOLEY,Sir THOMAS ( 1757 - 1833 ), admiral

FOSTER, IVOR LLEWELYN ( 1870 - 1959 ), singer

FOTHERGILL family, iron-masters , etc.

FOULKES, ANNIE ( 1877 - 1962 ), editor of an anthology

FOULKES, HENRY POWELL ( 1815 - 1886 ), cleric and author

FOULKES, HUMPHREY ( 1673 - 1737 ), cleric and antiquary ,

FOULKES, ISAAC ( Llyfrbryf 1836 - 1904 ), newspaper proprietor and publisher

FOULKES, PETER ( 1676 - 1747 ), scholar and divine ,

FOULKES, ROBERT ( 1743 - 1841 ), musician

FOULK(E)S, THOMAS ( 1731 - 1802 ), early Methodist exhorter

FOULKES, WILLIAM (d. 1691 ), cleric and translator ,

FOX,Sir CYRIL FRED ( 1882 - 1967 ), Director of the National Museum of Wales , 1926-48

FOXWIST, WILLIAM ( 1610 - c. 1660 ),

FRANCIS, ABEL (d. c. 1743 ), Arminian Baptist minister ,

FRANCIS, BENJAMIN ( 1734 - 1799 ), hymnist, Baptist minister ,

FRANCIS, EDMUND ( 1768 - 1831 ), Sandemanian Baptist minister

FRANCIS, ENOCH ( 1688/9 - 1740 ). Baptist minister ,

FRANCIS, GEORGE GRANT ( 1814 - 1882 ), business man and antiquary .

FRANCIS, GRIFFITH ( 1876 - 1936 ) and OWEN ( 1879 - 1936 ), known as ‘ Y Brodyr Francis ’ (‘ The Francis Brothers ’), musicians ,

FRANCIS, JOHN ( 1789 - 1843 ), miller and musician

FRANCIS, JOHN DEFFETT ( 1815 - 1901 ), painter and collector

FRANCIS, JOHN OSWALD ( 1882 - 1956 ), dramatist

FRANCIS, JONATHAN ( 1722/3 - 1801 ), Baptist minister

FRANKLEN,Sir THOMAS MANSEL ( 1840 - 1928 ), public servant

FREEMAN, KATHLEEN (‘ Mary Fitt ’ 1897 - 1959 ), classical scholar and writer

FRIMSTON, THOMAS ( Tudur Clwyd 1854 - 1930 ), Baptist minister, historian and antiquary

FROST, JOHN ( 1784 - 1877 ), Chartist

FROST, WILLIAM FREDERICK ( 1846 - 1891 ), harpist

FYNES-CLINTON, OSBERT HENRY ( 1869 - 1941 ), Professor of French and Romance Philology at the University College of North Wales, Bangor