FOXWIST
,
WILLIAM
(
1610
-
1673
),
b. at
Caernarvon
1610
, heir of
Richard
Foxwist
by
Ellen
, daughter of
William
Thomas
of
Aber
. In
1628
he matriculated from
Jesus College
,
Oxford
,
1636
, entered
Lincolns Inn
14 Feb.
and was
called to the Bar
17 May 1645
. He became
recorder of S. Albans
; was elected (
1649
)
bencher
of
Lincoln's Inn
6 Feb.
He was appointed in
1646
judge of the admiralty for North Wales
; in
1655-9
he was
puisne justice
of
Brecknock circuit
; in
1660
,
judge advocate
of
Chester circuit
; was
M.P.
,
Caernarvon
1647-8
,
Anglesey
1654-5
,
Swansea
1659
, and
S. Albans
1660
; and acted as
steward for manors of sequestered Royalists
under the
Committee for the Advance of Money
. A
moderate Parliamentarian
and a
supporter of the protectorate
, he seems to have succeeded in making his peace at the
Restoration. [See
Thomas
family of
Coed Alun
and
Aber
.] The will of
William
Foxwist
,
St. Albans
, dated
1673
, was proved that year.
Bibliography:
-
W. R. Williams
,
The History of the Parliamentary
Representation of Wales
, 1895
, 4, and
The history of the Great Sessions in Wales,
1542-1830 together with the lives of the Welsh judges, and
annotated lists of the chamberlains and chancellors,
attorney generals, and prothonotaries of the four circuits
of Chester and Wales
, Brecknock, 1899
, 60-1;
-
Old Wales a monthly magazine of antiquities
for Wales and the Borders
, Talybont, Breconshire,
1905-1907
, i, 257-9, 378-9;
-
J. E. Griffith
,
Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire
Families
, 1914
, 354.
Author:
Professor Glyn Roberts, M.A., (1904-1962), Bangor
Author:
Gareth Haulfryn Williams, Caernarfon
