FOULKES
,
ROBERT
(
1743
-
1841
),
musician
;
a native of
S. Asaph
. He was a
glazier
by trade. He was well-known as a
singer to the harp
and was adjudged the best (out of eighteen competitors) in an
eisteddfod held at Caerwys
,
Flints.
,
1798
. [He d.
24 Dec. 1841
.]
Bibliography:
-
The Cambro-Briton
, 1819-1822
, iii;
-
Leathart
,
Origin and Progress of the Gwyneddigion
Society of London
, 1831
, 29;
-
Yr Haul
,
1889
;
-
Rhestr gyda nodiadau byrion, o Enwogion
Cymreig o 1700 i 1900
. National Eisteddfod
Association, 1908
;
-
[
T. Morgan
,
Enwogion Cymreig
(1700–1900), Vol. 1,
1907
].
Author:
Robert David Griffith, M.A., (1877-1958), Old Colwyn
