Ysgol Friars is a school in Bangor, Gwynedd, and the second oldest extant school in Wales. The school was founded by Geoffrey Glyn who had been brought...
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John Morris-Jones (category People educated at Friars School, Bangor)
received elementary education. In 1876 he entered Friars School, Bangor. In 1879 the headmaster of Friars School, Daniel Lewis Lloyd, was appointed to Christ...
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Hampton School, England (1556) Academic Grammar School [cs], Prague, Czech Republic (1556) Brentwood School, England (1557) Friars School, Bangor, Wales...
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Richard Parry-Jones (category People educated at Friars School, Bangor)
Autocar called him "one of the world's leading automotive engineers." Born in Bangor, North Wales, the descendant of a North Wales slate quarry worker, Parry-Jones...
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Dick Atkin, Baron Atkin (category People educated at Friars School, Bangor)
to Charles Darwin from the eleven-year-old Dick. Atkin attended Friars School, Bangor, and Christ College, Brecon, and won a demyship to Magdalen College...
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Akira the Don (category People educated at Friars School, Bangor)
Akira the Don (real name Adam Jan Narkiewicz) is a British musician, DJ, producer, and YouTuber. His music and production traverses the boundaries between...
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Michael Wigston (category People educated at Friars School, Bangor)
Wigston was born on 25 February 1968. He was educated at Friars School, a comprehensive school in Bangor, Wales. He studied engineering science at Oriel College...
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Philip Bruce White (category People educated at Friars School, Bangor)
became a fellow of the Royal Society on 20 March 1941. White was born in Bangor, Gwynedd, North Wales, and died in London. Hartley, P. (1950). "Philip Bruce...
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Hugh David (category People educated at Friars School, Bangor)
Hugh David (17 July 1925 – 11 September 1987) was a British actor and television director. His directorial credits include Compact, Z-Cars, The Pallisers...
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Geoffrey Glyn (category Founders of Welsh schools and colleges)
founder of Friars School, Bangor. He was born in Heneglwys, Anglesey, the brother or half-brother of William Glyn, later Bishop of Bangor. A graduate...
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William Ambrose (Emrys) (category People educated at Friars School, Bangor)
were published and some of his poems used as hymns. Ambrose was born at a Bangor inn, the Penrhyn Arms, in Caernarfonshire (now in Gwynedd), north Wales...
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School, Abergavenny (1542) Friars School, Bangor (1557) Ysgol David Hughes Ynys Môn, founded as Beaumaris Grammar School (1603) Hawarden High School (1606)...
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Reuben Levy (category People educated at Friars School, Bangor)
Islamic history. Levy was educated at the Friars School, Bangor, the University College of North Wales, Bangor and Jesus College, Oxford, studying Persian...
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Tony Gray (rugby union) (category People educated at Friars School, Bangor)
Anthony John Gray (born 14 June 1942 in Stoke-on-Trent), is a former Wales international rugby union player and former head coach of the Wales national...
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Richard Thomas (priest) (category People educated at Friars School, Bangor)
Caernarfonshire, north Wales. Like his elder brother, he studied at the Friars School and Jesus College, Oxford before being ordained. His brother John died...
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Dewi Bebb (category People educated at Friars School, Bangor)
was the son of the Welsh historian Ambrose Bebb. After attending Friars School, Bangor he was conscripted into the Royal Navy. After the navy he studied...
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Huw Wheldon (category People educated at Friars School, Bangor)
educated at Friars School, Bangor, at the time an all-boys grammar school, and graduated with a BSc(Econ) degree from the London School of Economics...
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For example, the oldest extant schools in Wales – Christ College, Brecon (founded 1541) and the Friars School, Bangor (1557) – were established on the...
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Dewi Llwyd (category People educated at Friars School, Bangor)
family settled in Bangor, Gwynedd before he reached the age of six. He went to St Pauls Primary School, before attending Friars School. Llwyd went to study...
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Ifor Williams (category People educated at Friars School, Bangor)
wrote a well-regarded book on the history of the area. He went to Friars School, Bangor, in 1894 but had only been there for just over a year when he suffered...
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John Edward Daniel (category People educated at Friars School, Bangor)
party Plaid Cymru. Daniel was born in Bangor, Gwynedd, on 26 June 1902 and was educated at the Friars School, Bangor. He then won a scholarship to the University...
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George Guest (category People educated at Friars School, Bangor)
was born in Bangor, Gwynedd. His father was an organist and Guest assisted him by acting as organ blower. He became a chorister at Bangor Cathedral and...
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The Bishop of Bangor is the ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of Bangor. The see is based in the city of Bangor where the bishop's seat (cathedra)...
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Robin Millar (politician) (category People educated at Friars School, Bangor)
Millar was born in Bangor in 1968, where his father was chairman of the Conwy Conservative Association. Millar went to Ysgol Friars School, then studied civil...
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Hugh Williams (priest) (category People educated at Friars School, Bangor)
north-west Wales, was christened on 18 January 1722. He attended the Friars School in Bangor before studying at Jesus College, Oxford between 1740 and 1744...
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Aneurin Owen (antiquarian) (category People educated at Friars School, Bangor)
The family moved there from London. Owen was for a short time at Friars School, Bangor, but was mainly educated by his father. Aneurin made his home at...
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Frederick Llewellyn-Jones (category People educated at Friars School, Bangor)
born at Bethesda, Caernarfonshire. He received his education at Friars School, Bangor and Bala College. He then attended University College of Wales,...
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George Osborne Morgan (category People educated at Friars School, Bangor)
politician. Born at Gothenburg, Sweden, Morgan was educated at Friars School, Bangor, Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford, and was a scholar of Worcester...
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John Thomas (priest, born 1736) (category People educated at Friars School, Bangor)
Caernarfonshire, in north Wales, on 22 October 1736. After studying at the Friars School in Bangor, he went to the University of Oxford, matriculating as a member...
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David Ffrangcon-Davies (category People educated at Friars School, Bangor)
Ffrancon, as part of his new surname (Ffrangcon-Davies). He attended Friars School, Bangor and Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating in 1876 and graduating...
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