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Gentile Da Fabriano: his “The
Adoration of the Magi” is the illustration on Jan 6; bio here [illustrious illustrators]
Gaucelm Faidit: one of the Troubadours who came under the matronage
of Maria de Ventadorn on
Jan 13 [Trobairitz and
The Poets]
Mary Fairfax (Somerville), born December
26 1780; died November 29 1872: “started her education in the family library.
In 1804 she married her cousin, Samuel Greig, son of Sir Samuel Greig, of the
Russian Navy. They lived in London until his death in 1807. Mary's second husband, William
Somerville, encouraged her studies in science and mathematics...” Somerville Hall
website here; entertaining Ada Lovelace on June 5 [E,M&C2]
Thomas
Fairfax:
winning the battle of Colchester on March 15
Abraham and Lya Faktorowicz: parenting Jake the Barber on Oct
17; [half-brother Max had the same dad
but a different mother, birthname Cecilia Tandowska]
Irene Fanizza: in praise of Christiane Desroches Noblecourt on Oct 21
Farinace, though I
think it should be spelled Farinacci, as in Prospero
Farinacci, or Farinaccius in the Latin
pen-name on his “Praxis et Theorica Criminalis” of 1616”, the work that made
him famous. The recently rediscovered portrait of
him by Caravaggio can be found here; the letter from Victor Hugo here. He goes with Beccaria on Oct 18 [political ideologues]
Yaakov Farkash, or Ze’ev on his
cartoons:
born in Hungary in 1923, he survived the Holocaust in Europe, arriving in
Israel in 1947; full bio here; mentioned on Sept 27, his
portrait of Golda Meir is on May 3, of Abba Eban on Nov 18 [illustrious illustrators]
John Chipman Farrar:
publishing in partnership with Roger Straus Jr on Dec 23; apparently they are now owned by Macmillan (click here - or am I misreading because it then takes you to the
FS&G website, which doesn’t open); for Farrar click here [serious scribes]
David Farrer: judging the Booker
Prize on Dec 21
Thomas Faryner: owned
the bakery on Pudding Lane where the Great Fire of London started on Sept 2. Faryner, or Farriner, from the
French “farine” = “flour”. More here, but ignore the queston in the last
paragraph: as noted elsewhere on this blog, Henry I required all people to choose their family’s trade,
and stay with it, so people acquired the name of their trade (Cooper, Smith,
Mason etc), and therefore Thomas was a Farriner.
Hermann Dietrich Fassbinder: the ashes of his
“Gott Ohne Ich, Ich Ohne Gott” can be found on Jan
8
Gabriel Urbain Fauré (born
May 12 1845; died November 4 1924):
teaching the Boulanger sisters
on Aug 21 [musical maestros]
Clarence Leonidas (Leo) Fender: counterpointing Les Paul on June 9 [musical maestros]
Geoffrey Fenton: supplying
Burglar Bill with fenced goods on Jan 30;
bio here [the world as stage]
Johan Ferrier: the
first head of state when Surinam gained independence from the Netherlands on
November 25 1975 [pre-Columban Americas]
Georges Feydeau (born December 8 1862; died June 5
1921): a complete farce on Dec 5;
bio here [the world as stage]
The Fiennes family: possibly connected to the Banbury Cross on March 15, Lord
Saye and Sele the only family-member named, though apparently
they are just one single person (click here)
Catherine Marie Fischer (born June 1 1741; died March 10 1767):
Lucy Locket’s Kitty Fisher, and one of the many
portraits of her by Joshua Reynolds, on March 15; bio here
Rudolf Ivanovich Abel,
who was really Bill
Fisher (William August Fisher (1903-1971) of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He had been sentenced to 45 years and
a $3,000 fine but had only served four years when he was swapped on May 1
Maria Anne Fitzherbert: the one Georgie Porgie truly loved on March 15
(but see Caroline of
Brunswick-Lüneburg for the one he was made
to marry) [Aenglisch page]
Reginal Fitzurse: one of the four riders of the apocalypse on Dec 29
Robert
fitz Walter: leader of the barons at Runnymede on June 15 1215; the full list of the barons and witnesses is
on the blogpage, each with a hyperlink if you want to know more about them;
ditto here; or
otherwise here for his
leadership of the English “Brotherhood of Assassins”, which tells you what the
real purpose of Magna Carta was! Power! [Aenglisch page] here too
Alexandre Victor
François, Vicomte de Flavigny: father of Daniel Stern on Dec 24
Ian Lancaster Fleming: mentioned on May 11 but also see the James Bond listings for a connection to John Dee [lighter writers]; in Cheyne
Walk on Sept 29
Usman Dan
Fodio: started a holy war in 1804 that established an Islamic
theocratic state, the Sokoto Caliphate, in present day Northern Nigeria [Africa]
the death
of his son/successor Muhammad Bello in 1837 is also on the Africa
page
Phileas Fogg, or Jules Verne really,
and don't forget Passepartout: Sept 28 and Dec 21: [lighter
writers]
Kenneth
Martin Follett:
pile 'em high and sell 'em cheap on July 9
Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda, which is actually one of the
neatest of all the hermaphronomes, especially as dad was a Shakespearian actor
and mum a high class socialite: Jane hated it
and dropped the lot: playing
Lillian Hellman on June 20 [the world as stage]
Bernard de Fontenelle: mentoring Émilie du Châtelet on June 12
Robert Ford: killed
his former idol Jesse James on April 3 – click here
George Foreman: with Joe Frazier, bashing
in, or out, or both, but however you adverb it the verb is the right one, the
brains of Muhammad Ali on Jan 17 (and I would only include the
winner on this list, with the loser “merely mentioned”, but sadly, in the end,
because that is what boxing does to you, all three lost); Foreman's fight
with Muhammad Ali in Zaire is on the Africa page
Jean de la Forge: dealing with
Woman-Blindness on Feb 28
Meta Forkel-Liebeskind: one of the five Universitätsmamsellen
on June 14
Johann Reinhold Forster: father of Georg, who
married Therese Heyne on June 14; himself a
member of James Cook's crew on the second
round-the-world voyage
Paul-Michel Foucault is not mentioned on Sept 18, but needs to be listed here to avoid confusion: this
Foucault can be found here [political ideologues]
William (Liam) Fox:
unleashing daggers on Oct 13
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (born
April 5 1732; died August 22 1806): on show at the Wallace Collection on April 16; -
click here for its own website; whoops,
sorry, that’s the parfumier. Try here for Jean-Honoré [illustrious illustrators]
Margot Frank: sister of
diarist Annelies Marie (Anne), dead of
typhus at Bergen-Belsen on June 12; also on April 10 with Hélène Berr
Numerous other MMs in that piece,
not including those who are already on the main Index (e.g. dad Otto Frank and failed shopkeeper Rowland Hussey Macy - see Dec 23 for his story). The other MMs are Joan Adler, who runs
the Straus Historical Society; Lina Straus and Helen Sachs Straus; Carol
Ann Lee, who wrote Otto Frank’s
biography; Helene (Leni) Frank (Otto’s
younger sister); Eugenie Blum, New York debutante; Edith Holländer (her née-name before she became Otto’s wife), her brothers Julius and Walter, and
their mother Rosa; English cousin Millie
Stanfield; Augusta Mayerson, Acting Director of the Migration
Department of the National Refugee Service, and her colleagues G.
V. Saxl and Ann S. Petluck; Joseph
Schildkraut, the actor who portrayed Otto Frank in the first Broadway adaptation of
the diary (I have given its author Meyer Levin his own
listing, below), and finally President and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who get
two mentions.
Knut Franke: exegising the FAE Sonata on Oct 27 [musical maestros] - bio here;
the piece can be heard here
Joseph William (“Smokin’ Joe”) Frazier: with George Foreman on Jan 17, and how glad they both were that it wasn’t Muhammad
Ali again
Daniel Chester French: faking John Harvard on Nov 26; try here [illustrious
illustrators]
Morgan
Freeman:
thoroughly invicted on June 24 [the
world as stage]
Jack Freitag (John Fry) (1922-1994): honoured at Guy’s Hospital on Feb 23; plaque here (apparently there’s another plaque
in Bromley, presumably by his surgery in Beckenham, though this link doesn’t make that clear),
obituary here;
bio here [E,M&C2]
Lucian Michael Freud, grandson
of Sigmund: mentioned on Dec 3, and among the illustrious illustrators
Rudolf (“Rudy”, “Baštík”) Freudenfeld, though he is also known as Franěk, the former German, the latter
Czech, the former his birth-name, the latter his survivor’s statement after the
war: smuggled the piano reduction of
the opera Brundibár into the camp at Terezin on April 1, and took
chare of preparing the children for its first performance; bio here [musical maestros]
Man Friday: no sign of him in the Selkirk version on Feb 1, but very much in charge in
my piece in “The
Captive Bride” (page 122) [serious scribes]
Carl Friedberg: taught Erwin Schulhoff in Cologne on April 1 [musical maestros]
Endre Ernő Friedmann, which
was a risky name for a Jew to have in wartime Europe, especially if he was
planning photo-journalism as a career. Robert Capa - Capa means "shark" in his native Hungarian -
became his pseudonym. His German girlfriend Gerta
Pohorylle did much
the same, taking Gerda Taro as her pseudonym; she was the first female photojournalist to be killed on
the frontline: he can be found photographing French resistance heroines on Jan 26; she can be found among the War-Reporteresses on Feb 22
Martin Frobisher (born
circa 1535; died November 22 1594): just seeking the north-west passage
your honour and giving job opportunities to some blokes I met en route in
Africa - on May 28; described in the encyclopaedia
as an English sailor
and privateer who made three voyages to the New World looking for the
North-West Passage... English view of him here, Canadian here - also interesting to note that Frobisher is Middle
Aenglish for “Furbisher”, "one who furbishes"; especially "a
sword cutler, who finishes sword blades and similar weapons" – so maybe "sailor
and privateer" is really just a euphemism for "pirate" [pre-Columban Americas]
Roger Eliot Fry: on the Bloomsbury tour on May 18; try here for
“Post-Impressionism” and the Omega Workshops, here for his bio; [illustrious illustrators]
King Fuad I: became his country's first head
of state in modern times when Egypt gained its independence from Great Britain
on February 22 1922 [Africa and purple cloaks]
Mira Fukrer: Mordechai Anielewicz’s girlfriend on May 8; no
follow-up needed and none likely to be found anyway
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