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Ffrench
Ffrench or ffrench is a relatively rare surname found in Ireland, a variant of the name French (surname), French. The name originated in France and was brought by the Normans, who landed in Bannow Bay, County Wexford, Ireland in 1169. According to Surname DB the original name is of Early Medieval English and Norman origin. It is a topographical name for someone who lived near an ash tree or ash wood, being derived from the Old French "''fraisne'', ''fresne''", ash tree. Variations In some rarer cases, the name does not start with an initial capital, but with a lower-case f; see Word-initial ff. Notable people Part of the family branch is considered to be one of the "Tribes of Galway", having been there since the 13th century. Notable people named Ffrench or ffrench include: *Alexis Ffrench (born 1970), British pianist and composer *Alfred Kirke Ffrench (1835–1872), British soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross *Baron ffrench, a title in the peerage of Ireland: **Rose ffren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conrad O'Brien-ffrench
Conrad Fulke Thomond O'Brien-ffrench, 2nd Marquis de Castelthomond (19 November 1893 – 23 October 1986) was a distinguished British Secret Intelligence officer, captain in the Tipperary Rangers of the Royal Irish Regiment and 16th The Queen's Lancers in World War I, and Mountie for the Royal North-West Mounted Police. He was an accomplished artist, linguist, mountaineer, skier and author. Early life and education Conrad Fulke Thomond O'Brien-ffrench was born in London, England, the second son of Henry Albert De Vreque O'Brien-ffrench, 1st Marquis de Castelthomond, and his wife Winifred ''née'' Thursby, heiress and daughter of Major James Legh Thursby, of Ormerod House Lancashire.. He and his elder brother Rollo (Rollo Adrien Vladimir Thursby Marie Altieri O'Brien-ffrench) spent their early childhood in Italy at Villa Torlonia (Frascati) in the Alban Hills, east of Rome, and then at Piazza dell'Indipendenza in Florence, where they received private tutoring in English, F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Ffrench
file:Coa irl ffrench.svg, Arms of ffrench Baron ffrench, of Monivea Castle, Castle ffrench in the County Galway, County of Galway, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland created on 14 February 1798 for Rose, Lady ffrench. She was the widow of Charles ffrench, who had been created a Baronet, of Clogha in County Galway, in the Baronetage of Ireland on 17 August 1779. Their son Thomas succeeded in both the baronetcy and barony. Both titles have descended via primogeniture to the present Baron. The title and the family name are both spelled with a Word-initial ff, lower-case double-'f'. ffrench baronets, of Castle ffrench (1779) *Sir Charles ffrench, 1st Baronet (died 1784) *Sir Thomas ffrench, 2nd Baronet (–1814) (succeeded as Baron ffrench in 1805) Barons ffrench (1798) *Rose ffrench, 1st Baroness ffrench (died 1805) *Thomas ffrench, 2nd Baron ffrench (–1814) *Charles Austin ffrench, 3rd Baron ffrench (1786–1860) *Thomas ffrench, 4th Baron ffrench (1810–1892) *Martin Joseph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeleine Ffrench-Mullen
Madeleine ffrench-Mullen (30 December 1880 – 26 May 1944) was an Irish revolutionary and labour activist who took part in the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916. Ffrench-Mullen was a member of the radical nationalist women's organisation . In 1913 during the Dublin Lock-out, she worked in the soup kitchen in Liberty Hall. She subsequently joined the Irish Citizen Army (ICA).Deirdre Bryan, "Mullen, Madeleine ffrench-", ''Dictionary of Irish Biography''. In the Easter Rising she worked in a first-aid tent. She was arrested after the Rising but released the following month. She joined Sinn Féin and was elected to Rathmines District Council in 1920. Early life Madeleine ffrench-Mullen was born on 30 December 1880 in Malta, where her father, St Lawrence ffrench-Mullen, a Royal Navy surgeon, was stationed. She had two brothers, St Lawrence Patrick Joseph (1890–1891) and Douglas (1893–1943). Women Rights and the Suffrage Movement Ffrench-Mullen's interest in politics started y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gonville Ffrench-Beytagh
The Very Revd Gonville Aubie ffrench-Beytagh (26 January 1913 – 10 May 1991) was an Anglican priest who served as the Dean of Johannesburg. He was also an anti-apartheid activist and was held in solitary confinement before going on trial for his activism. Childhood Gonville ffrench-Beytagh was born on 26 January 1912 in Shanghai, China, the oldest son of Leo Michael ffrench-Beytagh, an Irish cotton company executive and Edith McIlraith nee Watson, an Englishwoman who was born in Yokohama. His mother and father separated when Gonville was a young boy and his mother left for South Africa. His father handed over care of Gonville, together with his younger brother Michael and his younger sister Patricia, to Miss Esylt Newbery, a young female teacher who the family had met in Shanghai. She had no familial connection to the family and received a monthly retainer for several years. She took the children to England to be educated. Gonville attended Monkton Combe School near ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Di Ffrench
Di ffrench (9 November 1946 – 25 May 1999) was a New Zealand photographic and performance artist and sculptor. Her work is in the collection of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and the Hocken Collections in Dunedin. Life Di ffrench was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, and moved to New Zealand with her family in 1963. She attended high school in Auckland, followed by studies at the Auckland Technical Institute, and began exhibiting her work in the mid-1970s. She became a regular participant in national, individual and group exhibitions, and also worked as an art tutor at Otago Polytechnic's Oamaru and Dunedin art schools. In the 1980s she worked mainly in performance art in galleries. In 1990, ffrench was the Trustbank Canterbury Artist in Residence at the Arts Centre, Christchurch. During the residency she worked on a specialised photography technique: she took a black and white photograph of an object and made this into a sli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Ffrench-Constant
Charles Kenvyn ffrench-Constant FRCP FMedSci FRSE is a neurology researcher, specialising in multiple sclerosis. He has been recognised for his "fundamental and sustained contributions that underpin much contemporary research in developmental and regenerative neuroscience". Education and early career ffrench-Constant gained an MA in Physiology from the University of Cambridge and an MB, BChir in Medicine from Middlesex Hospital in 1980. As a graduate student in the laboratory of Martin Raff at University College London, ffrench-Constant discovered that there are small numbers of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) in cell suspensions prepared from adult rat optic nerves. He gained his PhD in neuroscience from UCL in 1986. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he returned to Cambridge and took up a postdoctoral fellowship at the Wellcome/CRC institute (now the Gurdon Institute). Later career ffrench-Constant started his own laborato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexis Ffrench
Alexis Ffrench (born 1970) is a pioneering British Classical-Soul musician, composer, producer, and pianist. Ffrench's music has more than a billion streams and his albums ''Evolution'' (2018), ''Dreamland'' (2020) and ''Classical Soul Vol. 1'' (2024) reached No. 1 in the Classical Music Charts. Ffrench has headlined the Royal Albert Hall, collaborated with FIFA, Tiffany & Co, fashion houses Miyake and Hugo Boss, played Latitude Festival, worked with pop artist Paloma Faith, and composed several film scores. An advocate for music education, Ffrench is a Governing Body Member and Trustee of the Royal Academy of Music, London, and is the first artistic director of the Royal Schools of Music. As a broadcaster, Ffrench is the host of Classical Connections on Apple Music 1. Career Ffrench began improvising on the piano at the age of four. He received scholarships to study at the Purcell School for Young Musicians and the Royal Academy of Music. He is known for his unusual s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isamaya Ffrench
Isamaya Ffrench (born 9 April 1989) is a British make-up artist and creator of wearable art. She has worked on fashion editorials for several major publications, including ''Vogue'', ''Dazed'', '' W'' magazine and ''Love''. Her subjects have included musicians Björk and Rihanna, and models Kendall and Kylie Jenner. Her principal focus is on facial art and decoration that challenges beauty norms. Early life and education Born and raised in Cambridge, England, she became interested in physical arts from a young age and moved to London to study 3D design at the Chelsea College of Arts, then product and industrial design at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.Isamaya Ffrench Business of Fashion. Retrieved 2019-10-28. She also joined the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Ffrench, 1st Baroness Ffrench
Rose ffrench, 1st Baroness ffrench (died 8 December 1805), was an Irish peeress. The eldest daughter of Patrick Dillon of Roscommon, she married on 25 June 1761 Sir Charles ffrench, 1st Baronet (cr.1779), who was later Mayor of Galway. He died in 1784. In 1798, Lady ffrench was created Baroness ffrench, of Castle ffrench, County Galway, in recognition of the services of her son, Sir Thomas ffrench, 2nd Bt., who was a member of the Catholic Committee. Because she was nominally Protestant, the creation was in keeping with King George III's objection to elevating Catholics The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ... to the peerage. Upon her decease, her Catholic son Sir Thomas inherited the barony. The title and the family name are both spelled with a lower-case double-'f' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royston Ffrench
Royston Ffrench (born 5 September 1975) is a professional flat jockey. He was the 1997 British Champion Apprentice Jockey and has won multiple Grade 1 races in Europe and the Middle East. Early life Ffrench was bought up in Telford, and is the son of a Jamaican migrant. He is one of 15 siblings. He credits his Uncle for getting him into horse racing, as Ffrench spent his teenage years working in a factory and valeting cars. Racing career Ffrench joined the British Racing School course in Newmarket in 1995. Ffrench was apprentice to Luca Cumani, and had his first public race ride in October 1995 before a first winner at Doncaster in March 1996. He won the 1996 Cesarewitch onboard Inchcailoch. His first Group win, the St. Simon Stakes at Newbury, came in 1997 riding Kaliana for Cumani and owner HH Aga Khan IV. That year, Ffrench would be crowned Champion Apprentice Jockey. Ffrench was one of three Champion Apprentice's who had worked with Cumani, the other two being Frankie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Val Ffrench Blake
Robert Lifford Valentine ffrench Blake (3 March 1913 – 11 March 2011) was a lieutenant-colonel in the British Army, cattle and horse breeder, and author. Biography Early life Robert Lifford Valentine ffrench Blake was born on 3 March 1913 in Rawalpindi, India.Lt-Col Val ffrench Blake '''', 27 March 2011Lieutenant-Colonel Val ffrench-Blake '' |
Maurice Ffrench
Maurice Lamont Ffrench (born January 1, 1999) is an American professional football wide receiver. He was most recently a member of the Ottawa Redblacks of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football for Pittsburgh and was originally signed by the Kansas City Chiefs as an undrafted free agent in . He has also been a member of the Los Angeles Chargers and Edmonton Elks. Early life Ffrench was born on January 1, 1999, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He attended New Brunswick High School, playing running back, wide receiver, cornerback, and returner there. He ran for 1,375 yards on 106 carries (12.9 average), caught 28 passes for 727 yards, and scored 24 total touchdowns (15 rushing, five receiving, two on kickoff returns and two by punt returns). After spending all four years of high school as team captain, Ffrench accepted a scholarship offer from University of Pittsburgh to play for their Panther football team. As a true freshman, Ffrench appeared in nine games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
